Episode 131: Sensual Sovereignty & Creating Conditions for Full Self Expression with Sonali Deepika
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Dr. Sonali Deepika.
I’m Dr. Sonali Deepika, a lifelong learner who’s lived across the globe. After practicing psychiatry for many years, I decided to pursue my passion for holistic healing. My work delves into the root-cause of discomfort, disharmony and dis-ease. I found the greatest journey to be that of truly coming home to the subtle sensations of my body. It is there where I have become aware of the conditioning affecting me as a Woman or Color and Culture. My heart-centered calling is to guide others on this transformative path – to connect to the sacred ground within and around them while remembering their natural state of liberation
“I am here to guide melanated beings, black, brown, indigenous and immigrant women and femmes in navigating internalized oppression, to transmute the things they are holding that do not belong to them, and to find their power as sovereign sensual beings.”
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In this episode we talk about:
Sonali’s experience leaving the medical world & becoming a somatic practitioner
Exploring holistic and fringe practices like yoga and ayurveda
How western medicine focused on the extremely out of balance, and ayurveda can show stages of imbalance, where it can be caught and healed earlier
Where racial and sexual trauma intersect, and the awareness of the limitations, nuances and stigma for bodies of culture in the healing process
The deepest layers of shame can be held in sexual organs
Creating spaces to explore sensuality and sexuality that take out some of the threat so healing can happen
The white gaze, judgments, objectification and scrutiny that can be felt when exploring sensuality and sexuality
Sensual Sovereignty - embodied love, liberation and the license to expand your true essence
Freeing ourselves from internalized oppression
Permission to be our True Essence
Cultivating healthy communities and spaces to be seen as we truly are
Signs Essence is emerging: vitality, joy, energy, enthusiasm, aliveness
Creating sanctuary for ourselves
