The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Jana Lynne Caldetera Umipig, mother of Kalilaya Amorosa Umipig-Candelario, life partner of Enmanuel Candelario and daughter of Rosemarie Caldetera Umipig (Pagudpud, Ilokos Norte) and Godofredo Peralta Umipig (Santa Maria, Ilokos Sur) was born and raised in Honolulu on the Kingdom of Hawaii and also raised on Yokuts Territory (Stockton, CA). Her current and closest relation to land is the Lenape Territory (Bronx, NY). She is a cultural organizer and knowledge bearer  and does so through her multidisciplinary artistic expression/creation work, role as an educator and sharer of knowledge and as an intuitive and bodywork healer in uplifting the healer within all who come to exchange with her. She is also a practiced Filipino Martial Artist in the discipline of Kali, through the school of Pekiti Tersia. 

JL also works as a Grief Worker Death Doula supporting communities and families in creating rituals to honoring on going relationships with those in their lives who have transitioned Spirit Side. She centers much of this work as in all other work on supporting children and youth’s relationships to loss and death as well as supporting families who have their lost children.

In service of the Pilipin@/x community where she is rooted in ancestry, she holds legacy with the Center for Babaylan Studies as a core member for 10 years, host of podcast Kultivating Kapwa and founder of CfBS Decolonization School and Co-founder and Artistic Director/Creator of Raised Pinay through Roots of Health where she centralizes her organizing around Decolonization and Liberation Education. Some of JL's most know creative works include JL is the US/Internationally travelled Journey of a Brown Girl and the Diasporic Pilipinx education and divination tool of Kapwa Tarot.

Support for this podcast (and QTBIPGM qi gong scholarships) has come from our Patreon members.  Although I am taking a pause the podcast, community-centered qi gong classes are still happening.  Please consider joining and supporting this ecosystem of medicine.

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Mugen is a fractalized being living in a Japanese/Taiwanese/Hakkanese-American experience. They study/practice; tattooing, acupuncture, daoism, cosmology, antiquity, martial arts, writing, indelible research and have a few other projects on the horizon.

Their future envisions include; land stewardship, writings, ancestral pilgrimages, visual documentation of these journeys, and doing more activism around indigenous, water, land rights, food justice, food sovereignty, environmental justice--which is never separated from injustices of all oppressed relatives.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to @homecampinitiative.

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Rebecca Mendoza Nunziato (she/ella/ya) is a Xicana master's of divinity candidate at Harvard Divinity School, and co-organizer of the Harvard Nahuatl language group. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon with experience working in community organizing, advocacy, education, and storytelling in Denver, Colorado. Broadly, Rebecca's scholarship centers Indigenous philosophy and religion, specifically how rituals create kinship among humans, plants, animals, ancestors, and land in the Americas. Her focus on Mesoamerican and Chicanx cosmovision is guided by decolonial methodologies. Over the summer, Rebecca was a Research Fellow in the Pre-Columbian Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks with additional support by the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project. This episode's community shoutout goes to @Alex_purple and @wocsistercollective_. Check them out and show some love!

This might be one of the most playful conversations I have ever had - an absolute delight. I hope you enjoy this interview as much as me.

@party.noodles (they/them) is a celebrant, a shapeshifter, often in a transition of sorts.

류 [ryoo] means: to stay, to be with, to leave behind (a message, a mark), to accept (a gift), to allow to grow.

경 [kyung] means: fortune, blessing, wealth, auspicious, good luck, ceremony, celebration.

They currently support humans whose very existence disrupts the status quo by way of celebration that honours their sacred uniqueness. Through their creative 1:1 work with folks, they bring a sense of ease, wonder, and playfulness into their healing containers.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to two guests that have been on The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast: @raw__movement and @tabernaclelife because they’re just that good. Don’t forget to check them out and show them some love.

Joy Tabernacle-KMT (@tabernaclelife), she/they/opulence, iz a Hoodoo, healer, mother, artist, ceremonialist, spiritual teacher, liberation mystic & opulence. She iz a guide to intense, passionate, powerful, Beings that carry big, wild, beautiful, mojo, medicine & magic that requires deep support, radical witnessing, courageous choice and resonant clarity for expansion and expression. This episode’s community shoutout goes to @lovingblacksinglemothers - check them out and send some love!

@justinagrayman (she/her) is an artist who studies practices and processes for designing beautiful spaces of deep connection, home, family. With a BA in Psychology from Stanford University and a PhD in Psychology and Social Intervention from New York University, Justina’s studies have always centered on understanding how we communicate with each other in ways that build power, connect, and mobilize us. Justina is currently developing @Raw_Movement. Justina’s ultimate mission is to collaboratively create / transform entire communities into spaces of deep, divine connection.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to @party.noodles. Check them out and show them some love!

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@richaelfaithfulfolkhealer (they/them/theirs) is a Black conjurer, folk healer, shamanic practitioner, and culture worker rooted in DC and Virginia. Since initiation in 2015, they have supported thousands of kindred, ancestors, and spirits in spiritual direction, energy medicine, divination, as well as magic and death doulaship. Their work has been featured in Colorlines, The Root, and other platforms. Richael weaves their mysticism into other work around healing justice strategy, conflict transformation, movement lawyering, and community organizing.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to @acorncenter4freedom. Check them out and show them some love!

Anna Balagtas (she/her) is a Queer + Pinay femme radical birthworker, educator, facilitator, energy worker, and pleasure advocate. Anna is the founder of @pocketdoula and supports emerging birthworkers in radicalizing their practice through heart-centered mentorships, facilitations, and community organizing. She houses her practice under the decolonization of birthwork and transformative queer care. Her deepest joys come from witnessing her communities thrive through community care, mutual aid, and abolition work.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to Anna’s mentees: Tasha (@nexuscommunitycare) and MaryAnne (@ating.kamay).

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Clarinda (she/her/hers) is the founder of #thematriarchalbusiness and course educator of the new Decolonizing Business unit at MBU, Clarinda Tivoli is a child of Oceania - an iTaukei and Samoan woman and mother, born in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, now living in the occupied Kingdom of Hawaii.

Moved by the liveliness of Pasifika indigenous revival, Clarinda grows and evolves her personal business model and teachings from cultural wisdom about health, abundance and sustainability. Returning to the values and practices of many indigenous cultures in regards to land, economics, society and politics, Clarinda works actively to separate capitalism and colonialism from business, and has faith that this is being done in the growing, thriving collective movement to decolonize business.

This episode’s community shoutout goes to Timaima Clawson (@embrace801). Check out Timaima's work and consider supporting!

Rev Priestess Zionarrah (@thehoelistichealthcoach), The H.eaven O.n E.arth H.O.E.listic Health Coach is an ordained minister, founder of Taste and See Heaven on Earth Ministries, ancestral medicine keeper and holistic health coach, and educator,

Bringing Heaven to Earth by Honoring Heaven Within,

Educating at the intersection between science, spirit, sex & sensuality,

Their practice centers Afro-Indigenous Pleasure Based Hoelistic Healing & Expressive Artistry through the Activation of Ancestral Cellular DNA with Mystical Nourishment, Sexological Shamanism, Creation And Play.

They specialize in holistic, functional nutrition, intuitive somatic bodywork, hypnotherapy, sacred sexuality, and an original/channeled energy medicine modality called Vocal Toning Energy Massage, The H.O.E.listic health coach integrates modern access with ancient ancestral mystical traditions. Community shoutouts go to: @biotunes, @the9mindsradioshow, and @tabernaclelife.