Episode 067 - The Beingness of Embodiment with Christian Totty

Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. So glad that you’ve come back to us. This episode, as we hurtle towards Summer, was recorded close to the Spring Equinox with Christian Totty. Christian has a Healing Arts Practice and a juicy Substack newsletter called Wholly Earth.

In this episode, talking with your host Dr. Sheree Mack, Christian explores:

* Being thankful

* Situating ourselves in the landscape

* The Spring Equinox quickening of season’s change

* Hold both at the same time - grief and the quickening

* Ruth Gilmore -‘ life is precious, life is precious ‘

* Astrological eclipses and change

* Finding those ways of being present

* What is a healing arts practice?

* The reluctance around embracing herbal medicine 

* The slowdown and being present

* Tapping into the unknown and our ancestors

* Childhood experiences with grandmother

* Theatre and community arts can save you

* Taping into astrology later in life as a thru-line

* Multidisciplinary practices are necessary

* Embracing liminal spaces 

* What is embodiment? 

* Abbey Lincoln and Wholly Earth 

* The Nature Writing Collection on Christian's Substack

* Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Clearing 

 

Bio: Bio
Christian Totty (she/her) is an Afro-Indigenous mother, gardener, and interdisciplinary healing artist based in northwest Ohio in the traditional homelands of the Kickapoo, Shawnee, and Miami peoples. Through her work, Christian explores rituals, embodiment, intersectionality, and interdependence. 

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