This is part of 2 of 2 from my conversation with Kanwal Rahim. In this conversation, Kanwal shares her journey as she becomes a healer and weaves into her healing practice her performance and cultural lineage. At the very end I join Kanwal in a song!
A daughter of the Indus River and Sindhi peoples, Kanwal Rahim works and plays at the intersection of theatre, sustainable community-building, and meditative arts where she explores how stories shape human relationships resilience, and r/evolutions.
Lisa Riannson is an artist known for her blend of abstract elements and realistic watercolor techniques. Her art captures the beauty of contrast, vivid colors, and intricate details, whether it’s the delicate dance of glass reflections or the boldness of abstract expression.
Kohenet Ketzirah Lesser (she/her/hers) is a maker and teacher of the sacred arts and a corporate priestess. Through Devotaj Sacred Arts she creates Jewishly-rooted objects and artifacts that serve not only as spiritual tools in the present, but also as a dialogue between past and possible futures. Her work is rooted in Jewish mystical, magickal, healing, and folk practices across space, time, and all the worlds. She received ordination as a Kohenet from the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute in 2009, as part of the first cohort.
You can learn more about Ketzirah on her websites: DevotojSacredArts.com and CorporatePriestess.com.
Erika Cleveland is an artist, writer, and former art therapist. Her mission is to work with women at mid to late life transition whose roles and identities no longer fit and who urgently want to reconnect to their true selves.
In this podcast, Erika and I discuss her new online class, “Befriending Our Shadow” which begins in early April.
Randy Wall has been illustrating and designing for over 20 years. Randy and his design company, Artlab design, have worked in many different fields of art from book illustrations to designing for Chip and Pepper and B.U.M.Equipment L.A.
Raja is a former NASA asset who went after his dreams and today is living them and using his life experiences to empower others.
Alexandra is an editor with 31 years of experience and her guiding principle is “encouragement through editing.” In 2012 she started her own company, Loomis & Lyman, to help authors navigate the daunting world of self publishing. After seeing how hungry her friends in the coaching world were for knowledge about publishing, Alex started Writer’s Ed to provide nonfiction writers guidance, community, and support. Her greatest joy is helping them become authors and authorities.
Erika Cleveland is an artist, writer, and former art therapist. Her mission is to work with women at mid to late life transition whose roles and identities no longer fit and who urgently want to reconnect to their true selves. Since moving to DC from the East Coast, she started Transformative Healing dolls. For the last ten years, she’s been leading healing doll workshops and exhibiting her healing dolls in the greater DC area and beyond.
Laura Sandage is a community arts leader and performer in transition. The recently completed Earth Chapel in her backyard is her ritual container, creative retreat, and current teacher as she unfolds into new songs, writings, and reverence practices. Her life path has circled around creativity and connection, voice and vulnerability, ancestors and transformation.
