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[The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast S01E04. Original release date August 22, 2021.]
Jamee: You are listening to the decolonizing medicine podcast. We will be exploring the intersections of decolonization and healing work with Black and Brown practitioners involved in a variety of modalities. I am your host, Jamee Pineda, coming to you from Piscataway territory otherwise known as Baltimore, Maryland. My ancestry is mostly Tagalog and some Chinoy, but I was raised here on Turtle Island. I am also a queer non-binary trans person and a practitioner of Hilot and Chinese medicine. The guest for this episode is Christian Totty. Christian is of Black and Cusabo ancestry. She was born, raised, and currently resides on the traditional homelands of Kiickapoo, Shawandasse Tula, and Myaamia relatives in the Northwest Ohio region. Christian is the founder of LOAM Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine and is the first woman of color to own and operate an acupuncture clinic in the area. She founded LOAM in 2018 as the culmination of her intersecting curiosity in culture medicine and ecology. Christian also has advanced training in diversity, equity, and inclusion; urban farming; and breath work.
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[The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast S01E03. Originally release date July 23, 2021.]
Jamee: Mabuhay! You are listening to The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast. We will be exploring the intersection of decolonization and healing work with Black and Brown practitioners involved in a variety of modalities. I am your host, Jamee Pineda, coming to you from Piscataway territory otherwise known as Baltimore, Maryland. My ancestry is mostly Tagalog and some Chinoy, but I was raised here on Turtle Island. I am also a queer non-binary trans person and a practitioner of Hilot and Chinese medicine. I am dying to introduce our guest for today. Pooja Virani is a pain-free movement specialist and social justice consultant on a mission to spread joy, foster equality, and help people reach their highest potential. Pooja is certified in Kripalu yoga and meditation, kids yoga, and acro yoga. She has practiced yoga for over 15 years and taught it all over the world, most recently in Bali, Indonesia. [Music] Jamee: Alright, our guest for today's episode is Pooja. Pooja, I'm gonna go ahead and let you introduce yourself. Pooja: Sure! My pronouns are she, her, and hers and I am a queer, second generation Indian American. I am also a pain-free movement specialist and social justice consultant. I've created a rehabilitative yoga program and a pain-free hips and knees course and I teach LGBT and BIPOC yoga as well as social justice education for yoga teachers, community leaders, and businesses. [The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast S01E02. Original release date: June 24, 2021]
Jamee: Mabuhay! You are listening to The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast. We will be exploring the intersections of decolonization and healing work with Black and Brown practitioners involved in a variety of modalities. I am your host Jamee Pineda coming to you from Piscataway territory otherwise known as Baltimore, Maryland. My ancestry is mostly Tagalog and some Chinoy, but I was raised here on Turtle Island. I am also a queer non-binary trans person and a practitioner of Hilot and Chinese medicine. Today's guest is Julz Bolinayan, an Ilocano American, non-binary, queer artist and initiated Hilot Binabaylan. They specialize in ancestral healing rituals through tattoo ritual, divination, serenade, energy healing, and body work. After recording my interview with Julz, I noticed that there was a little bit of missing audio so we added that in during post-production. Jamee: Well hello, everyone. I am so excited for today's guest. Um, Julz, how are you doing over there? Julz: I'm doing great Jamee: Well, I'm so excited to talk to you. Um, Julz and I go way way way back and, uh, they're an amazing tattoo ritualist and Hilot Binabaylan, but I'm gonna actually have you, Julz, introduce yourself a little bit more. Julz: Great, thank you. Yes, JP and I go way back which is another story I would love to tell you all, that would take up all our time, but my name is Julz Bolinayen Soriano Ignacio. Julz Bolinayen is my first name, but I just go by Julz. I will answer to any and all pronouns. My favorite pronouns are they and them, but depending depending on who you are I'll answer to all. Um, ancestry hails from northern Philippines as far as I know. My recent ancestry is Ilocano and I'm currently living and located in Tongva territory also known as Los Angeles and as, uh, Jamee said I am a tattoo ritualist, Hilot Binabaylan, and also a haranista, and a singer-songwriter. Yeah, thank you for having me. [The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast S01E01. Original release date: May 26, 2021]
Mabuhay! You are listening to the Decolonizing Medicine Podcast. We will be exploring the intersection of decolonization and healing work with Black and Brown practitioners involved in a variety of modalities. I am your host, Jamee Pineda recording from Piscataway territory otherwise known as Baltimore, Maryland. My ancestry is mostly Tagalog and some Chinoy, but I was raised here on Turtle Island. I'm also a queer non-binary trans person and a practitioner of Hilot and Chinese medicine. During each episode I will be interviewing different healing practitioners, but since this is our very first episode, I've decided to tell you a little bit more about my background and also answer some questions that I've gotten from folks in my community through social media and also some other groups that I'm a part of. So I got into healing work I think the same way a lot of other folks have gotten into healing work and that was through work burnout, specifically non-profit work burnout. I was working in a very toxic environment that ended up making me really sick and the ways that I was able to get my health back on track and eventually leave that position and make some major changes in my life was to experience community acupuncture for the first time and this was really important to me because it was a medicine that I could financially afford at the time. I didn't have health insurance, and it was really accessible and my body was very responsive to it. And eventually that first-hand experience as a patient brought about my own career shift from doing this more administrative nonprofit work into doing healing work for my own communities. |
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