The Somatic Scribing Podcast

As the Crow Flies Design

Welcome to the Somatic Scribing Podcast micro-season - where I’m sharing interviews with clients and collaborators about projects that have catalyzed transformation and radically expanded the possibilities of what scribing can do. Season 3 (coming Spring 2026) will feature content from previous workshops and courses on Somatic Scribing.

  1. 06/27/2023

    Ritual

    Neith Sankofa is a sacred healing artist, dancer, African dance scholar, shamanic practitioner, sacred mama, warrior, artist, singer and more.  We close this season with Neith (punctuated with drops of wisdom from her daughter) sharing about where art and embodiment intersect in her practices, and how movement is not only a language, but the origin of all life.  We recorded this episode in the spring of 2023, a few weeks after the police murder of Tortuguita - member of our community and environmental activist - who was defending the Weelaunee forest from being bulldozed to build Cop City (an ongoing struggle as of this publishing).  Our community was reeling and in deep need of space to be together and process what happened.  Neith and I break down the ritual we held for community, and how we applied principles of cultural somatics to understand what was needed in a cultural body experiencing so much inflammation.  The sound gets a little choppy at times, but stick with it because we close with some powerful reflections about how to be a ritualist, even if you are just beginning your journey, and how connecting to creative energy is a fundamental skill for holding ceremony. Neith is currently offering monthly online Process Inquiry Sessions the 22nd of every month. Each session is a rotating medicine teaching including song, movement, visual art making, animal medicine, and more. You can learn more and register by emailing neithsankofa@gmail.com. Thanks for listening.  This is the last episode of the season!  Upcoming announcements: the Fall Scribe Lab is going to be in person this yearrr.  Registration opens in July and you can learn more about the Lab, other upcoming workshops and all things Somatic Scribing by subscribing to the newsletter on my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com or by following me on Instagram @crowcamino.  Music for this podcast is from the album Black Shamxn by our labmate, multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa.  If you’re at a different corner of the web singing the same song, come say hi.  We’d love to hear from you.

    1h 23m
  2. 05/22/2023

    Dream

    Dreaming is a central practice to being symbolism literate, and the skill of symbol literacy is a core competency for reimagining our world.  Dare Carrasquillo is a super smart colleague, host of the Underworld Party Podcast, and one half of the play-based collaboration Animist Arts. In our conversation from Fall 2022, we follow dream practice into death practice, contextualize somatics inside of our 300,000+ year old nervous systems, and we riff on putting our contemporary pop-psychology field into science fiction mode.  Dare’s practice of polyphonic singing harmonizes with my practice of layering images, and we discuss resonance and the impacts of wave dynamics on bodies and other material.  We wade into riskier waters of what liberation means inside of a non-dual framework, queering with a yes/and lens the dominant trauma narratives seeping into all aspects of how we understand ourselves. The theater backgrounds come out as we open the challenges of translating the map of a social field back into our bodies that have been trained out of our ability to express, and we close in speculation about how to get out of the police states of our internal landscapes and back into the play practices that allow us to make the new map together.  Animist Arts is a space for priming the body for play without dominance, which is a foundation for pretty much anything you could be up to, so check them out at animistarts.art, they’re currently running several workshops and series.  I recommend between sun and moon, all that in the show notes. Enjoy the convo! Thanks for listening.  You can learn more about upcoming workshops and all things Somatic Scribing on my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com or by following me on Instagram @crowcamino.  Music for this podcast is from the album Black Shamxn by our labmate, multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa.  You can check the show notes for all that info, and if you’re at a different corner of the web singing the same song, come say hi.  We’d love to hear from you.

    1h 17m
  3. 04/11/2023

    Kin

    Since meeting in 2018 through the GTDF collective, Sonali Balajee, Sarah Amsler, Dani D'Emilia and I have been rolling deep together.  We’ve dubbed ourselves the Altared State collective, (that’s altared with an A) and apart from taking care of one another across multiple borders and oceans, we do work collectively that orbits around queer ecologies & decolonial embodiments.  That is to say, we make experiments of our bodies and their metabolic entanglements, we play with relationality in an animist way that seeks textures of belonging and moves ritually with land and our non-human relatives, we imagine kin and kinship through all kinds of queer lenses and have a really expansive take on the erotic.  In this conversation we talk about queerness as a placeholder for what contains the wholeness of us and our complexity, the path from queerness, wholeness, collective health, and what it means to aspire to be social naturopaths.  We open the axis of the spiritual and the political and the artistic approaches to “social justice” in this moment of history, and why it’s most practical to make record of all these ways of being through visual writing systems.  Thanks for listening.  You can learn more about upcoming workshops and all things Somatic Scribing on my website asthecrowfliesdesign.com or by following me on Instagram @crowcamino.  Music for this podcast is from the album Black Shamxn by our labmate, multidisciplinary artist and healing practitioner, Neith Sankofa.  You can check the show notes for all that info, and if you’re at a different corner of the web singing the same song, come say hi.  We’d love to hear from you.

    1h 1m

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Welcome to the Somatic Scribing Podcast micro-season - where I’m sharing interviews with clients and collaborators about projects that have catalyzed transformation and radically expanded the possibilities of what scribing can do. Season 3 (coming Spring 2026) will feature content from previous workshops and courses on Somatic Scribing.