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Holding space for sacred transitions & moving through thresholds

Episode 10 of Dreaming Ourselves Alive is out with Episode 10 of Dreaming Ourselves Alive is out with Farzana Khan

Farzana Khan names 2 things this moment is asking of us: become prayerful and become playful.

Not prayerful as performance.
Not prayerful as certainty.
Not prayerful as dogma.

Prayerful as humility.
As awe.
As the willingness to be right sized by what is older and wiser than us.

The trees.
The land.
The water.
The ancestors.
The quiet knowing beneath the noise.

To be prayerful is to listen before we act.
To remember we don't have all the answers.
To enter relationship with life as something sacred, alive, and speaking.

And then there is playfulness.

Not play as escape.
Not play as turning away from grief, conflict, or responsibility.

Play as creativity.
Play as courage.
Play as connection.
Play as the practice of shaping new realities before they make sense to everyone else.

Farzana reminds us that if we are dreaming ourselves into different ways of living, we cannot do that from the old shapes alone.

We need song.
We need movement.
We need risk.
We need the strange and holy willingness to believe that something impossible may still be possible.

This conversation with Farzana Khan, Executive Director of Healing Justice London, social sculptor and writer, is an invitation into that spacious place where prayer and play meet.

Where humility becomes hope.
Where imagination becomes practice.
Where remembrance becomes a way of returning to life.

Listen to The Medicine You Carry with Farzana Khan wherever you find the podcast.

And as you listen, reflect with us:
What helps you become more prayerful and playful?

#DreamingOurselvesAlive #HealingJustice #PrayerfulAndPlayful #CollectiveHealing #Remembrance
This august, I walked toward the heart. I arrived This august, I walked toward the heart.

I arrived at Medicine Festival with an intention that had been forming since the summer solstice, fed by quiet moments, encounters, and a longing gathering in my body.

This year’s theme was “Walking Together: A Pilgrimage to the Heart.”

It spoke to me before I arrived.

I came with dear friends, which made returning to the land feel even more precious. In the days before, I had been full of energy, choosing ceremonies, music, movement, and spaces I wanted to enter.

Then we landed.
And almost nothing worked as planned.

The heat delayed things. The extreme heat asked me to stop negotiating with my body and listen.

What began as structure became surrender.

And somehow, what I could never have planned was what my soul needed most.

I softened through encounters with other humans. Through ceremony. Through music. Through wisdom keepers. Through the quiet intelligence of the land.

Water was everywhere, even in its absence.

The earth felt thirsty. Our bodies felt thirsty. There was a longing for more water.

And water came through ceremony, through collective prayer, through bodies moving like waves, through 11,000 people walking toward love, toward heart, toward the humanity we are still learning how to remember.

Play, beauty were everywhere too.

Costumes. Colour. Body paint. Mud on skin. Crowns made from leaves and twigs. Bodies moving as temples, gods, goddesses, beings worthy of rhythm, pleasure, care, and devotion.

And as I left, I realised I had met someone I have often found hard to access.

Sensual Amel.

The Amel who feels through the skin.
The Amel who can soften, melt, move as if her body has no bones.
The Amel who doesn't have to hold herself so tightly to be safe.

More permeability.
More desire to move toward people, toward life, toward a heart that feels both still and vibrant.

I am grateful for the land, the organisers, the medicine offered, the friends who walked with me, and everyone who came to commune in that way.

I am still receiving it.
Still walking with it.

What has helped you walk back toward your heart this summer?

#MedicineFestival #WalkingTogether #DreamingOurs
What if the medicine this moment needs is already What if the medicine this moment needs is already moving through you?

In this new episode of Dreaming Ourselves Alive, Amel is joined by Farzana Khan, Executive Director of Healing Justice London, social sculptor and writer.

Together, they enter a conversation that feels less like an interview and more like a remembering.

A remembering that each of us carries medicine.

That belonging is not something a system can grant or take away.

That repair may begin with reverence.
That being prayerful does not have to mean dogma, but can mean humility, awe, and deep listening.

That this moment may not only be asking us to act, but to attune.

Farzana speaks of listening to the trees, the land, the water, the ancestors, and to what is longing to emerge through us.

She invites us into prayerfulness and playfulness.
Into collective healing.
Into the slow, brave work of remembering ourselves as part of life.

May this conversation meet you gently.
May it return something to you.
May it help you listen for the medicine you carry.

Listen to The Medicine You Carry with Farzana Khan wherever you find the podcast.

Save this for a moment when you need to remember that you belong to something deeper.

link to full episode in Bio. episode 10 with Farzana Khan

#DreamingOurselvesAlive #HealingJustice #CollectiveHealing #Remembrance #Belonging
New Episode of dreaming ourselves alive is out wit New Episode of dreaming ourselves alive is out with Farzana Khan

"as we heal, as we transform pain and patterns of injury, wounding, harm, we create space for more life, more play, more curiosity, more creativity."

"it allows us to dream ourselves alive, literally, to actually be like, okay, we can reconfigure, we can shape reality. But we cannot do that from our old shapes."

"and to be in that dance, to be in that song, and to practice new ways together."

Farzana Khan, Executive Director of Healing Justice London, opens this week's conversation somewhere near here, and the episode never really leaves it.

The Medicine You Carry, a new episode of Dreaming Ourselves Alive, is live this week.

🎧 Link in bio.

#HealingJustice #DreamingOurselvesAlive #PurposefulPlay #SomaticWisdom #FarzanaKhan #AmelMurphy #Remembrance #CollectiveLiberation
Dreaming ourselves alive episode with @topher wilk Dreaming ourselves alive episode with @topher wilkins is out.

Maybe we don't need to learn how to be human.

Maybe we need to remember.

✨

In this clip, Topher Wilkins shares a vision of community that feels less like an innovation and more like a homecoming.

People gathering.

Sharing meals.

Building trust.

Being together without masks.

In a world that often feels disconnected, this conversation reminded me that belonging isn't a luxury.

It's part of what makes us human.

🎧 Listen to the full episode of Dreaming Ourselves Alive.

Link in bio.

Where do you experience a true sense of belonging?

#Belonging #Community #DreamingOurselvesAlive #HumanConnection #embodyingchange #practice #collectiveemergence #collectivetending #communalcare
I keep returning to this simple idea: We are what I keep returning to this simple idea:

We are what we practice.

Not what we intend.

Not what we promise.

Not even what we believe.

What we practice.

It's easy to say we want healing, care, community, or belonging.

The harder question is whether our daily choices, habits, relationships, and systems actually support those things.

This clip from my conversation with Topher Wilkins explores that tension beautifully.

It's an invitation to pause and ask:

What am I practicing into existence?

🎧 Listen to the full episode of Dreaming Ourselves Alive for a deeper exploration of belonging, community, and how we meet this moment together.

#DreamingOurselvesAlive #practice #embodyingchange #metamorphosis #community #collectiveremembering #remembering #belonging #care #communalcare
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