Fabric Podcast

Pivoting

As Fabric pivots (once again) to a period of virtual gatherings because of the wild spread of the Omicron variant, Melissa Lock, Greg Meyer, and Chris Tripolino reflect on the moment and value of being nimble in the face of challenges.
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Because I Love You: Undeserved

What if one of the most important lessons of love is learned in realizing how it doesn’t depend on us being deserving? A deep love reverberating in the universe simply is! Pause with Kris & Greg Meyer to reflect on the undeserved nature of that love!Episode Page

Because I Love You: Fragile

Isn’t it interesting that the unstoppable nature of love comes in fragile forms? In conversation with Greg & Kris Meyer, the vulnerable, risky nature of deep love is what this episode explores.
 
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Because I Love You: Breathtaking

Sometimes what we notice seems so unfathomable that it can feel terrifying. It’s easy to feel insignificant in the face of the seemingly infinite, but could there be something intimate there? Chris and Jenny Lillehei help us pause and listen and give permission for our breath to be stolen.
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Because I Love You: Beautiful

The “what” and the “how” of God are deep mysteries, but the universe that continues to reveal a little of that “third strand” we talk about seems to say that we are loved. As the word, “why?” arises in response to beauty we encounter, perhaps an answer is, “because I love you.”
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Scraps: Reimagining Healing, Ceremony, & Tradition

Ihotu Ali and Erin Tripolino are skilled and passionate healers in the Twin Cities. They shared a story about helping to create ceremony together, expanding our imagination about how traditions around the holidays and beyond can be healing and satisfying!Ihotu Ali is a doula and Maya Abdominal massage therapist, and doctoral student in chiropractic medicine. She is the granddaughter of a traditional Nigerian Chief and Polish-Irish farmers, and is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Public Health, and conducted maternal health research with the United Nations. Ihotu spent a decade studying Afro-indigenous and global cultural practices for childbirth, ancestral and womb healing, now alongside medical training in chiropractic care and the neuroscience of spirituality and meditation. As a co-founder of the Minnesota Healing Justice Network, Ihotu was featured in Rolling Stone Magazine and now directs the Oshun Center for Intercultural Healing. You are warmly invited to join her classes or follow her work at IhotuAli.com, Patreon, and on social media.
Erin Tripolino Serving families during their journey through pregnancy, birth and early postpartum is one of Erin’s deepest joys and honors. Learn more about her and her work at ErinTripolino.com 

Reimagining a Woven World

Dipankar Mukherjee and Meena Natarajan have long been reimagining theatre, especially through Pangea World Theater, and in this episode, they help spark each of us to reimagine and help create a more deeply woven world.See more of the activities they led on our Facebook Page

Reimagining Healing All of Us

Ihotu Ali has been reimagining healing that we all need. All of who we are, but also ALL of us; the collective. Her focus on cultural and intercultural healing has been so inspiring to us. Go to IhotuAli.com to learn more.
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Ihotu shared this song in the live gathering to reflect our our people: "Stand Up" - Performed by Cynthia Erivo. Powerful.  https://youtu.be/sn19xvfoXvk 
"Sweetgrass, Not Tear Gas" poem from Women's Press
This Was 2020 Anthology of Minnesotans writing on the pandemic and uprising (poem can also be found here)
African roots of inoculation from smallpox (Washington Post, 2020)
Susto & Soul Loss
On white body trauma and ancestry - My Grandmother's Hands
Spiritual Herbalism
The Healing Wisdom of Africa
For circle practice around conflict (this could be helpful around the holidays and with family conflicts!)