Liberating Beauty

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Liberating Beauty explores the liberating qualities of beauty - how it enlivens new possibilities, renews a quiet joyfulness, and connects us across space and time. Through reflection and conversation with inspiring creatives, everyday alchemists, and stewards of tenderness, we’ll discover how beauty shifts our orientation to life, grief, and identity. In an era clouded by stories of separation and divisiveness, a narrative of beauty has never been more vital.

  1. 5d ago

    The Art of Presence

    What if presence is the doorway to creativity?  In this week's episode, we continue our Creativity mini-series - exploring how the present moment fuels our most creative lives. In this conversation, Ryan Erisman - a former Marine Infantry Officer, a regenerative farmer, and a leadership coach - recounts his most powerful experiences of presence, moments of wellbeing in a combat zone, and how he’s learning to let go of attachments in the ordinary rhythms of everyday life. Ryan’s story holds practical lessons for each of us as we practice the art of showing up to what's available in the here and now.  Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

    1h 4m

  2. May 26

    The Prophet’s Messenger

    What if we can express our creativity even after we die? What encouragement awaits our creative lives when we open to what we cannot see or know for sure? This week’s episode continues our mini-series on Creativity, one of Beauty's kindred expressions. Rebecca shares a story about her father who, although no longer with us in this physical reality, found a way to message her about releasing what blocks us from living as our most creative selves.  If you’ve ever yearned to express your creative light and wished to feel held and known, this one is for you.  Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

    21 min

  3. May 19

    Incubating Beauty

    What if creativity is the thread that leads us back to beauty - and to who we truly are? In this week's episode of the Liberating Beauty Podcast, we continue our mini-series on Creativity and its power to illuminate beauty even after years of its absence. Rebecca is joined by her dear friend Gail Jacob – a beloved pioneer in the field of developmental disabilities and a gifted textile artist – to trace the path creativity carves through the course of one woman's life. From a childhood marked by deprivation, through a career filled with reverence for different ways of being, to the arrival of a daughter who awakened her creative spark, Gail's story holds a question for all of us: what beauty lives within us before we know it's there? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

    53 min

  4. May 11

    The Feeling of Creativity

    We tend to associate creativity with the forms it takes like painting, music, or dance. But what if creativity - like beauty - is a frequency more than a form? What if creativity is the experience of being ourselves whenever we open to expressing who we truly are?   Today's episode opens a mini-series on the topic of creativity, one of beauty's kindred expressions. Rebecca shares examples of where she notices creativity in ordinary experiences - sometimes in ways she wouldn't have thought of as creative.   In the coming weeks, Rebecca will be joined by guests who will take us deeper into these questions. This series is an unfolding conversation, and you are part of it. Where is creativity expressing itself in your life? How can you nurture and invite your creative spirit in everyday moments? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

    32 min

  5. May 4

    This, Too, Is Love

    For years, Rebecca moved between beauty, spirituality, and transformation, sensing an underlying coherence she couldn't put into words. Then something clicked: what if beauty is an expression of Love? In this episode, Rebecca explores the animating life force of Love, often in forms we don't immediately recognize. Many wisdom traditions have long recognized that Love is not only what arrives gently. Grief is also Love with nowhere to go. Beauty is Love made visible in a way the body can recognize. Pleasure is Love insisting on aliveness. Transformation is Love refusing to let us stay smaller than what we're becoming. What would it feel like to ask of your pain, your desire, your playfulness: could this, too, be Love? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

    23 min

  6. Apr 27

    Invisible Thresholds

    There are passages in life that never make headlines. Some don’t even reach our conscious awareness. There’s no announcement. No ceremony. No room full of witnesses. Sometimes it's an ordinary Tuesday - a quiet threshold crossed, and then you just keep going. In this episode, Rebecca explores invisible thresholds - the quiet, interior passages that the outer culture doesn't often see or honor: The grief that doesn't qualify for bereavement leave. The gratitude for driving yourself safely to an appointment. The freedom from thoughts and fears that once would have sent you reeling. These passages are no less real. No less worthy of witness. Nothing is too small to honor with your attention, your breath and rest. What passage have you been carrying that is ready to be witnessed - if only by you? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

    22 min

  7. Apr 20

    The Rules Are Made Up, Anyway

    When the rules we live by start to feel like walls, it's worth asking who built them. Today, Rebecca takes us into an ordinary moment of unraveling - a computer that wouldn't cooperate - and the cascade of self-imposed questioning and expectations that came with it. Join us this week as we explore legitimacy traps - the quiet, exhausting work of proving our worth through rules and structures of our design. What becomes possible when we remember that every rule has an author - and that in many instances - we still hold the pen? Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

    20 min

  8. Apr 13

    The Nature of Time

    When we connect with time as fixed and unyielding, it can feel like a bully, pushing us forward or leaving us behind. Yet, the arc of our lives often tells a more generous story. Today, Rebecca welcomes author, sociologist, and spiritual practitioner Rebecca S. Krantz (Becca) to explore the mysterious, creative and even benevolent nature of time. Becca discusses her novel in progress, "Rooting for Time," and together they invite a different possibility: what if we stopped trying to manage time and learned to be in relationship with it? What beauty emerges when the connection softens? Resources To learn more about Becca, her work and to connect with her, visit her website at rebeccaskrantz.com.  Some of the tools and practices that Becca shared include:  Dr. Daniel Foor’s ancestral healing work: ancestralmedicine.org.  Arawana Hayashi’s embodied movement practices through Social Presencing Theater: arawanahayashi.com.  Tsoknyi Rinpoche’s teachings, writings and practices for embodied living: "Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion" (2022) by Daniel Goleman and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, https://a.co/07BWnWq9 and an online meditation course, fullybeing.org.  Host: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu Original Music: Mapumba Cilombo Producers: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo Creative Directors: Rebecca Paradiso de Sayu & Mapumba Cilombo To learn more about Rebecca and her work, visit Together in Beauty - togetherinbeauty.com - home to the Liberating Beauty Podcast. To learn more about Mapumba and his work as a producer, sound engineer and musician, visit his website at mapumbamusic.com. ⁠⁠⁠ If you find this podcast meaningful, please consider making a donation at togetherinbeauty.com/podcast. Your gift helps ensure that the work can continue with integrity and grace and reach as many listeners as possible. As always, thank you for your support.

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Liberating Beauty explores the liberating qualities of beauty - how it enlivens new possibilities, renews a quiet joyfulness, and connects us across space and time. Through reflection and conversation with inspiring creatives, everyday alchemists, and stewards of tenderness, we’ll discover how beauty shifts our orientation to life, grief, and identity. In an era clouded by stories of separation and divisiveness, a narrative of beauty has never been more vital.

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