Painting & Poetry: Art as Medicine with Keone Wales

08/16/21 • 33 min

Keone is a queer, a heretic and a fool, here to help shift the paradigm and welcome the higher dimensions through play and joy. They bring dreams and visions for the collective through their paintings, poetry and story telling. For them, it’s all about energy; helping nurture our energetic connections with plants, trees and other beings. And also helping us clear blockages and bring medicine to our own energy bodies.

Episode Highlights

Keone shares some poetry from their new collection, “Love Songs For Boys,” including their focus on the intersection of painting and poetry.
We discuss nature vs. capitalism, messiness as a path to healing, and laughter as medicine.
They talk about how the ancient forest near their home has inspired their poetry, and how patriarchy and white supremacy serves as a metaphor for the destruction of nature.
Keone shares about how they found poetry to be a source of healing throughout their life.
We explore the Fool archetype and its inherent beautiful, queerness.

Web links

Connect with Keone on Instagram @keone1973
Get a copy of "Love Songs for Boys" HERE.

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Episode Highlights

Keone shares some poetry from their new collection, “Love Songs For Boys,” including their focus on the intersection of painting and poetry.
We discuss nature vs. capitalism, messiness as a path to healing, and laughter as medicine.
They talk about how the ancient forest near their home has inspired their poetry, and how patriarchy and white supremacy serves as a metaphor for the destruction of nature.
Keone shares about how they found poetry to be a source of healing throughout their life.
We explore the Fool archetype and its inherent beautiful, queerness.

Web links

Connect with Keone on Instagram @keone1973
Get a copy of "Love Songs for Boys" HERE.

Help us support the queer community & keep the podcast going - Support us on Patreon.

Grab your FREE Guide: The Self-Confident Queer - Download it here.

Join the Queer Spirit Community Facebook group to continue the conversation and stay up to date on new episodes.

And follow us on Instagram!

Join our mailing list to get news and podcast updates sent directly to you.

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Music as Medicine with Kerem Brule

Kerem Brule is a self-taught musician who has continued to experiment and evolve creatively in search of her own authentic musical expression. Kerem is an electronic music producer, sound healer, drum circler, singer-songwriter and even... a rapper! She is a lover of improvisational layering of rhythm, harmony and melody, and along the way has discovered some great musical expression hacks that have fast tracked her to greater expansion of her musical expression. Kerem is a believer that we are all capable of making music in ways that can feel intuitive, natural and above all, feel good at any age and experience level!

Episode Highlights

We talk about how music holds the power of healing and memory.
Kerem shares her experiences of music as medicine and the power of improvisation, regardless of age.
We learn how drumming was significantly healing and inspirational for Kerem and what she learned from it.
We discuss the power of sharing music collectively and what that means for personal and social healing.

Web links

Find Kerem at BeautifulSounds.co
Connect with her on Instagram & Facebook

Help us support the queer community & keep the podcast going - Support us on Patreon.

Grab your FREE Guide: The Self-Confident Queer - Download it here.

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Dream Yoga & Vibrational Alchemy with O Zotique

O (they/them) is a yogi and priestess committed to helping themselves and others release attachment to fear and vibrate at a radiant frequency of embodiment and joy. O is a healer and artist working internationally in the media of social practice, vibration, yoga, dreamwork and reiki. Their dissertation with the State U of NY centers around flow psychology as a phenomenon.

Episode Highlights

We talk about O’s journey from a classically trained composer and music teacher to delving into the study and practice of vibrational alchemy.
O shares how the practice of deep listening, developed by Pauline Oliveros, lead to the paths of dream yoga and asana, which they incorporate into their vibrational alchemy work.
We discuss the joys of teaching children, especially in music education.
We delve into the worlds of dreams: dream recall, dream yoga and dream work.
O talks about their experiences with sound healing and forest bathing.

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