interview with zahava griss

PODCAST THREE
Do Kinky Things With Power: Erotic resistance and the dancing body

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Greetings fellow wonderers --

Joining me today is  friend, sex-educator, dancer, writer, kink-advocate, ritualist, and community worker, Zahava Griss. A dancer by training, Zahava has been using embodiment, ritual, and radical love to perform and educate on themes of racial and gender justice, sex and the erotic, and ways of de-colonizing our relations with pleasure, grief, and communal ethics. Enjoy our discussion as we weave through these topics, wondering on how things have come to be as they are, and what support for, and from, our sensual bodies can look like.

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BIOGRAPHY:
Zahava Griss (also known as Z, pronouns They/Them) is the founder of Embody More Love providing dance, coaching, kink education, performance ritual and bodywork. Z supports people to express passion for each other and for life! Z has a unique approach to healing race and gender oppression through the body, building meaningful relationships, and demonstrating our shared passions. Z is gender transcendent and a contributing author to  Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries. and Sacred Body Wisdom. Z comes from 30 years of dance training, certifications in Yoga for Birth, Esalen Massage, Urban Tantra Practitioner, Pilates, and Coaching. Powerful influences include the arts of unlearning racism, Sufi whirling, Sexual Shamanism, bioenergetics, socially conscious entrepreneurship and transformational group dynamics. Z directed Spiritual Nourishment for Conscious Activism in collaboration with Deepak Chopra and has been listening to, speaking in, and facilitating spaces to transform white privilege since 1999, including work with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, Sarah LawrenceCollege, the Re-Evaluating Counseling community, and the national White Privilege Conference.

Z currently directs Do Good Things with Power, a leadership immersion for facilitators who are transforming our culture of intimacy. Z has been touring workshops, erotic grief rituals, and dance performances across the U.S. and Europe. Learn more and join the newsletter for upcoming events at: 
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www.EmbodyMoreLove.com
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​If you enjoyed the music used in the podcast and want to find more of the same, here are the artists and their tracks:

Intro: Rising Appalachia - Resilient
Outro: CocoRosie - Werewolf