Zhenevere Sophia Dao on Sexuality and the Transgender Necessity (#128) By Jacob Kyle Posted on February 12, 2021 #Spirituality#Traditions About the Guest Zhenevere Sophia Dao is a poet, novelist, playwright, and the director of the SACRa¬†Theater Company. She has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has published fiction with Penguin Books. An independent scholar, she is the founder of the philosophy of Post-Daoism and the practice tradition of MogaDao, which incorporates original ‚Äúmythosomatic‚Äù qigong forms and meditations, and spiritualized asana, in combination with academic studies in mythopoetics, comparative philosophy and religion, Depth Sexology, socioerotic and sociopolitical inquiry, and queer studies. A transgender woman, she is also the founder of The Transgender Necessity, a platform for public discourse which underscores the cultural necessity of transgender individuals. In this episode we discuss: Post-Daoism as a philosophy reinterpreting depth psychology, qigong, and DaoismMogaDao as a practice at the intersection of somatic, queer, and socioerotic inquirySocially imposed self-images versus deeply personal mythopoetic self-imagesThe democratization of desire in all forms and socio-erotic experiencesSpiritual significance of sex, sexuality, and desire as authentic expressions of a soul‚Äôs original virtueConsumeristic paradigm of sexuality as another attribute of power¬†The importance of trans people in society as leaders in and examples of radical authenticity Take the podcast with you Subscribe in your favourite app Read more like this #Grief #Practice #Psychology #Spirituality What is Grief? Grief refers to the emotions we experience around a loss. By Samantha Black #Philosophy #Practice #Rasa #Traditions #Yoga Pratipakṣa Bhāvana: Cultivating the Opposite as a Celebration of Our Humanity The Oxford Dictionary defines passion as a strong and barely controllable emotion. Many so-called positive emotions fit that bill. So what happens if we experiment with touching sorrow in times when we feel the most euphoric of highs? Cultivating the opposite in all situations, even in times of elation, prepares us for the inevitability that we will at some point feel the lowest of lows. By Tara Lemerise #Traditions #Yoga Ashtanga Yoga in Sutras and the Gītā: A Comparison with Edwin Bryant (#157) Edwin Bryant is the professor of Hinduism at Rutgers University. He has published eight books, and authored a number of articles on the earliest origins of the Vedic culture, yoga philosophy, and the Krishna tradition. By Jacob Kyle #Practice #Traditions Is the West Ready for Tantra? with Andrew Holecek (#156) In this episode, author and Embodied Philosophy faculty, Andrew Holecek, is in conversation with Stephanie Corigliano and Jacob Kyle, as they discuss Andrew’s article, “Is the West Ready for Tantra?” an article released in the latest issue of Tarka. By Jacob Kyle TARKA Journal Discover our latest issues or become a monthly subscriber to access all digital and/or print content. Tarka #06: On Spiritual Citizenship Tarka #05: On Queer Dharma Tarka #04: On Death Tarka #03: On Ecology Tarka #02: On Illusion Tarka #01: On Bhakti Tarka #0: On the Scholar-Practitioner