In this episode, Rupa and Chetna talk about:
- How her upbringing supported and didn’t support her creativity
- Being in a fallow period with music-making
- Processing grief with the lives lost and fundamental shifts after Covid
- The artist process, with music and healing, being one of sitting and listening, integrating and express at the edge of the unknown
- The Deep Medicine Circle’s landback work, evolving with questions that challenge the bounds of imagination within structures of capitalism and ideas of private property
- Insisting upon listening and living into the questions, even without answers as a way to be with the realities of the planet
- Bringing elders into the work to discuss and interrogate with
- Questions around both settler and native communities’ responsibilities in landback initiatives
- Moving beyond purity politics to be with the questions to think and be differently in urgent times
- Talking to the land and ocean, giving gratitude to them for the children and the songs, as a way of being receptive and living in relationship to the being informing her
- Being in relationship with the land and beings around her, she hears music everywhere
- Integrating the practice of being in relationship with the land into her art of medicine and healing with folks; situating them in the space they’re in beside the mountains and bay, and building compost piles with frontline workers
- Transforming trauma that’s triggered and inflamed by crises like Covid, with making something beautiful out of rotten material
- Frontline workers experiencing less resources and more burnout
- Sitting with the wisdom of liminal spaces
- Rupa’s vision for the practice of Western Medicine in the U.S.; the low-bar as health care for all, and the high-bar is creating inclusive systems of care
- “Medicine” overall as everything that makes you feel good…
- “Art” as lived practice…
- Decolonizing medicine as undoing the structures of colonialism, and engaging in political education
- How Rupa navigates education away from social media with her children
- The world requiring a kind of creativity that will expand our ways of knowing and learning, and not letting anyone reduce us to being just one thing other that our multiplicity
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