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This Is My Body Part 1: Poetry
The Communion Podcast went live! For the first time in Longmont, Colorado we gathered with a live audience to discuss all things embodied and disembodied spirituality. We first kicked off the night with poetry, featuring special guest poet Almina Hodek. Embodied spirituality is a practice that integrates the mind, body, and spirit, emphasizing that spiritual experiences are not separate from the physical world but are deeply connected to and expressed through the body. It rejects the dualistic notion that the body is a mere vessel for the soul, instead advocating that our bodies are sacred sites of wisdom, identity, and transformation. Through the creative and spiritual expressions of poetry, art, and ritual, embodied spirituality encourages a reclamation of the body as a central means of engaging with divinity and the world around us. This concept is poignantly explored in *This Is My Body*, a live poetry and podcast recording event featuring Mercedez, Katerina Jeng, Pedro Senhorinha Silva, and special guest Almina Hodek. Each of these artists brings their own experience of navigating the intersections of identity, trauma, and joy through their bodies. Almina Hodek, as an immigrant to the US, brings an awareness of how being grounded in Place, being grounded to the Earth influences and impresses upon us as spiritual beings having an embodied experience. Katerina Jeng reclaims their body in a political and healing context, exploring the pain and liberation of inhabiting a queer, neurodivergent Asian femme body. Mercedez, a interdisciplinary artist, uses her own body as a canvas to explore the collapsing and rediscovering of identities and God. Pedro Senhorinha Silva reflects on the struggles and awakenings of being in a Black male body, ultimately creating space for freedom and self-definition. Together, they express a spirituality that is grounded in the lived experience of their bodies. Their poetry becomes a medium through which they speak the sacred, exploring the relationship between the personal, collective, and divine in a world that often imposes limitations on how bodies should be experienced and understood. Embodied spirituality, in this context, is an act of resistance, healing, and communion—an invitation to reclaim and celebrate the body as an intrinsic part of our spiritual journey.
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