Happy Spring! It’s 65 degrees here in Kingston NY today. We have a few announcements today, one is that Shana is going to be taking a sabbatical from our show starting May 15th. Her career and painting work is taking off in all directions and she needs to focus in right now, however Theresa will be steering the ship so the show goes on! Our OTHER incredible news is that Theresa got engaged! I know I know! Love is in the air.
Our first guest Olga Sahej, brings us a story of hope as she says “never give up on your body.” She is a Russian born musician, coming to America to study, (Suny New Paltz), and because internal stress adapting into American culture developed intense arthritis from extensive piano playing. It seemed impossible to heal, until she worked with a Chinese acupuncturist and Qi Gong Master. Through working hard healing herself she learned about her relationship to music, joy, gratitude and commitment to changing her life. Her self work has now culminated into Blue Lotis Qi Gong, where she helps others move through the physical and emotional challenges of life with the help of QiGong and other healing modalities. She also runs a horse-riding camp for girls with her husband called International Riding Camp which runs from June to August, and she’s holding a workshop for Women’s Health QiGong at** Anahata April 13th** here in Kingston NY.
Our second guest is Aki Goto. She is a Japanese experimental noise maker and multimedia artist based in the Hudson Valley NY. As she was graduating from an art college in Tokyo she was also struggling with a dissociative disorder which enriched her art but also created a distance between her and the world around her. Recently her partner was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, despite the difficulties and sadness, she chose to listen to the cancer and what it was trying to tell them. They began to “Love Cancer” with its message to slow down. With her “Shirotento Orchestra” (meaning white tent) she created an event for our Gender-Queer community based on how Japan recognizes gender. In Japan, girl’s day is on 3/3 and boy’s day on 5/5 – so she decided to create Genderqueer’s Day right between those days and celebrate their beauty, creativity, and power. The event is at the Old Dutch Church this Friday at 6pm! The theme is called Genderqueer’s Day and the event details can be found HERE!
SELF CARE! Self care we talked about the healing nature of herbs and flower essences, something that Aki does from wild flowers found on her land. Perfect timing as next week we share our interview with Lauren Giambrone of the Good Fight Herb Co. and Wildgather Herb School.
Today’s show was engineered by Manuel Blas of Radio Kingston, www.radiokingston.org.
We heard music from Shana Falana, http://www.shanafalana.com/, Olga Sahej (Two Voices From Beyond) and audio from the L7 Documentary “Pretend We’re Dead”
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