Spellwork Somatics

On this episode, Anabel Khoo chats with Jade Chung, co-facilitator of their upcoming collaborative workshop, Accessing Your Anger, for Asian folks seeking to safely embody and express anger/rage. We go deeper into our relationships to anger/rage in our upbringing, childhood, and our personal journeys to have more a compassionate and authentic relationship with our anger and our selves. Jade Chung is an art therapist, coach, and healer who helps her clients heal their trauma, rediscover the...

On this episode, we’re chatting with Ryookyung Kim of Party Noodles, on creating sacred space for play as medicine and a key ingredient for collective liberation. Ryookyung (they/them) is an alkemist and co-creator of divine ceremonies, rituals, and celebrations. You can often find them in a transition of sorts, liminal spaces of (un)becoming, and supporting other humans whose very existence disrupts the status quo. They journey with folks in coming home to their Selves by wa...

On this episode, I am chatting with my magical friend Shaunga Tagore. In our conversation, we talk about her most recent podcast episode, “RED: A love letter to the chosen ones (and Christina Yang)”, that is a deep journey into healing cycles of intergenerational trauma as non-normative people and ancestral connection through the body. We also hear more about Shaunga’s play in progress PLUTO, her experience with spiritual communication with animals, and how we can study stories to build new w...

In this episode, I share some reflections on this new lunar year, the Yin Water Rabbit year, along with a prompt for working with the emotion of Fear and the practice of Connection. Every emotion has something to teach us, and every emotion exists to guide us. So maybe this year isn’t about drowning in fear, but somehow learning how to respond to it? Here are some reflections on what we can learn from: the Rabbit, Yin energy, and the element of Water this year. Stay in touch wi...

In this episode, I speak with Danielle Gilmore on what she calls "soul-care": tending to the parts of us still developing, the depths of grief and loss, and the power of relationships and community. Danielle is a leadership educator, meditation practitioner and tree hugger. Danielle’s practices use wellness principles and modalities to support self-leadership. Graduating with a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Indiana Institute of Technology, she works to make leadership irres...

In this episode, I go over what "survival strategies" are, how to start to understand ourselves more by knowing what our personal survival strategies are, and how to begin to approach our trauma with self-compassion. As I mention in this episode, you can download my guide on survival strategies for BIPOC called Moving Beyond Survival with Self-compassion for free! -- Stay in touch with all KAI YIN Spells & Skills updates by signing up to my newsletter on my website, and follo...

In this interview with my friend and somatic therapist Camille Djokoto, we explore the concepts of balance, flow, alignment, and yielding, and our journeys navigating racial oppression and re-connecting to ancestral and intuitive wisdom through the body. This episode includes a guided somatic practice by Camille Djokoto who leads listeners through a practice to sense into alignment in our beings however that may be showing up for you in this moment. For more info on Camille Djokoto, pleas...

On this first episode I’m introducing myself and the podcast, and sharing a bit about the vision behind KAI YIN Spells & Skills, my multidimensional portal of offerings to support sacred wellbeing and also to create profound and sustainable avenues to shift systemic oppression. I get very personal immediately and share a bit about myself and my hopes and dreams for the podcast (and the world), and finally I invite you to share your thoughts on what you would like to hear in future ...