In this episode, Sara and Chetna talk about:

• What liberation smells like, sounds like, feels like for Sara

• All of our energetic pathways as music, and the unblocking of those pathways bringing music and liberation to the world

• Chetna’s journey with the Bansuri and the permission to make music

• Sara’s relationship with the banjo as a way to soothe her soul as she’s in relationship to the instrument

• The krar as it relates to the banjo and how it’s different

• Sara’s ancestral connection the krar through her dad’s Eritrean background, and her pursuit of opening to and belonging with the krar

• Sara looking to her heritage and her grandmother for what she needs to mother herself in a different way, which lead her to using her hands and being her senses as she cooked and played music

• Her discovery of finding her cultural DNA, through repetition and doing with her hands, and eventually going to Jamaica and being connected with a banjo and krar-maker

• Her trust of “more will be revealed” and saying yes even though it doesn’t make sense

• Similarities between West Africa and Jamaica as a site for Black liberation

• The discomforts of being there with the environment, and also the cultural and communal resilience and spirit 

• Lessons in accepting perfection, the “mark of the maker” and letting our instruments (including our bodies) have their beautiful scars (and how the instrument imitates our bodies) 

• The process of getting intimate with the wood, gourd, goat skin and other earth materials for the instrument 

• Being in collaboration and consent with the materials and tools we’re using

• Sara’s experience in Conscious Creators and the support she receiving in this process over the last few months

• Being in deep listening and collaboration, and locating ourselves in the process too

Find more:

• Sara on IG: @saragbanjo (Sara offers 1:1 Oracle Card Readings, SoulCollage®️ Facilitation, Enneagram Consultation and support for your creative project with vocals, lyrics, melody, voice acting & narration, ambient song and gourd banjo live through her embodied empathic voice.)

• Chetna on IG @mosaiceye and the podcast @creationforliberation 

Other offerings:

• Upcoming Events: Embodying Bhakti: The Yoga of Love - a series for women and non-binary activists, Reclaiming our Creative Inheritance: a 2-hour workshop on June 4th

• Work 1:1 with Chetna for high-achieving changemakers to go beyond your logic and conjure your embodied creative magic