Self Love for All with Bevin Branlandingham
06/01/18 • 30 min
Bevin Branlandingham is an ultra rad warrior for self-acceptance. She is a writer, aerobics instructor, healer and performer in Los Angeles, CA who believes that all bodies are good bodies and makes the world safe for people to love themselves. An award-winning Femmecee and event producer, Bevin’s monthly body positive dance party Rebel Cupcake was named one of the reasons New York City is the Best City in the World by Time Out New York. She moved to Los Angeles in 2016 and is excited to be part of an upstart community that turns the stereotype of thin obsessed Hollywood on its head. She goes live on Facebook every day, blogs at queerfatfemme.com and offers Reiki, energy healing and life purpose readings distance and locally. She teaches her one-of-a-kind healing aerobics class Fat Kid Dance Party (For All Sizes to Heal from Body Oppression) in Los Angeles, on tour and in an aerobics video available at FatKidDanceParty.com!
Episode Highlights:
- Bevin talks about going from an NYC lawyer and queer party promoter to SoCal aerobics instructor and Fat activist.
- How she started doing reiki healing after a tarot reading, and the benefits of energy healing on yourself and others.
- The importance of creating safe and accessible spaces for fitness.
- The journey from dance parties to Fat Kid Dance Party class. Holding trauma and oppression in the body, and healing it through exercise.
- Creating community through self care.
- Body liberation activism, body currency and being a gender warrior.
Bevin’s Social Media links
Bevin Branlandingham is an ultra rad warrior for self-acceptance. She is a writer, aerobics instructor, healer and performer in Los Angeles, CA who believes that all bodies are good bodies and makes the world safe for people to love themselves. An award-winning Femmecee and event producer, Bevin’s monthly body positive dance party Rebel Cupcake was named one of the reasons New York City is the Best City in the World by Time Out New York. She moved to Los Angeles in 2016 and is excited to be part of an upstart community that turns the stereotype of thin obsessed Hollywood on its head. She goes live on Facebook every day, blogs at queerfatfemme.com and offers Reiki, energy healing and life purpose readings distance and locally. She teaches her one-of-a-kind healing aerobics class Fat Kid Dance Party (For All Sizes to Heal from Body Oppression) in Los Angeles, on tour and in an aerobics video available at FatKidDanceParty.com!
Episode Highlights:
- Bevin talks about going from an NYC lawyer and queer party promoter to SoCal aerobics instructor and Fat activist.
- How she started doing reiki healing after a tarot reading, and the benefits of energy healing on yourself and others.
- The importance of creating safe and accessible spaces for fitness.
- The journey from dance parties to Fat Kid Dance Party class. Holding trauma and oppression in the body, and healing it through exercise.
- Creating community through self care.
- Body liberation activism, body currency and being a gender warrior.
Bevin’s Social Media links
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Episode Highlights
- The body as a source of intelligence, wisdom and kindness.
- Including our bodies in the conversations we have about sex.
- “Being embodied gives us more access to all of who we are.”
- Tuning into our bodies helps us connect to our humanness.
- Building capacity to be present with all emotions and sensations in our body.
- "Transcestors" and ancestral healing for erotic liberation.
- The power of listening to the land on ancestral pilgrimage.
- The wound of belonging which many queer people carry.
- How connecting with well, queer ancestors is a source of support.
Pavini's web links
- Emancipating Sexuality - somatic sex coaching
- Transcestral Healing - ancestral lineage repair
- Bespoken Bones - Pavini's podcast
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