Guest Speaker Helen Hyun-Kyung Park joins Danielle and Adele to discuss her response to the violence happening in Asian communities. She dives into how we can bring the warrior spirit into our lives and the importance of healing in relationship and community. The hosts also dig into Helen’s expertise on different therapeutic, somatic, and indigenous modalities for healing personal and racialized trauma in the body. Helen closes the show by leading us through a beautiful meditation practice called the Seven Homecomings. 

Show Notes: 

• Guest Speaker Helen Hyun-Kyung Park (LCSW, MFA) is a therapist, clinical social worker, and meditation teacher. She currently serves as Director of Community and International Training and Clinic Therapist at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. As a clinical social worker and family therapist, Helen draws upon her experiences in the arts, contemplative practice, and social justice activism to create a way of working with clients that is integrative, holistic, and anti-oppressive. She is currently pursuing clinical training in Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy, as well as facilitating a think tank with fellow therapists, artists, and technologists to explore possibilities for transdisciplinary practice and communities of care. She teaches meditation and maintains a small private practice in New York City. Prior to becoming a family therapist, Helen was an arts educator and program facilitator in New York City public schools. In this field, she created innovative learning programs and curricula for BIPOC, LGBTQ, and neurodiverse students. As a media artist, Helen created community-based projects that fostered critical dialogue and collective healing. Helen received her MSW from New York University, MFA from University of California, Santa Cruz, and is a Fulbright Fellow alumna (Republic of Korea). More information about her practice: https://www.mindfulfamiliesproject.com/index.html 
• Lama Rod Owens is a teacher and author. Information about his teachings and books: 
  • https://www.lamarod.com/ 
• Resmaa Menakem is a trauma specialist, healer, and author. Information about his books and somatic abolitionism and healing:  
  • https://www.resmaa.com/ 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dAAWgpokvo 
  • https://educationforracialequity.com/offerings/foundations-in-somatic-abolitionism/ 
• Resources about the Vulnerability Cycle in relationships:
  • http://www.kfr.nu/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Vulnerablility-Cycle.pdf 
• Resources about Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy: 
  • https://focusinginternational.org/about/aboriginal-focusing-oriented-therapy-initiative/ 
  • https://www.focusingtherapy.org/for-clients/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F--2UES2N8w
• Resources about Spiritual Bypassing: 
  • https://tricycle.org/magazine/human-nature-buddha-nature/ 
  • https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-spiritual-bypassing-5081640
• Seven Homecomings Practice & Meditation with Lama Rod Owens:
  • https://austinzencenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Seven-Homecomings-Practice-Lama-Rod-Owens.pdf 

To celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage and Mental Health Awareness month, this short episode introduces a few sacred rituals including a land acknowledgement and ancestral welcome. The hosts briefly discuss the struggle and value of self-care in Asian communities during this difficult time in the world. The discussion is followed by a guided meditation and a dedication of merit and farewell to the ancestors.

Show Notes: 

• For more information about the land acknowledgement, ancestral welcome, and dedication of merit, click here.
• To honor and respect an effort by Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander leaders to address the invisibility of their distinct experiences when grouped with ‘Asian’, we decided to change our podcast name to "Asian Heart Mind Body Collective" from "API Heart Mind Body Collective". The term Asian Pacific Islander (API) misrepresents the particular nuances of the Pacific Islander voice, experience, and identity which can lead to erasure or tokenization. We apologize for any harm this may have caused. 

Meet your podcast hosts, Adele and Danielle. Learn a bit about their stories, why they started the podcast, and why the title API Heart Mind Body Collective. Hear why they intentionally chose April 30, 2021 as the date for their first episode release. Finally, you'll be invited to practice a short mindfulness meditation, led by Danielle.   Show Notes: 

• About Braided Wisdom 
• About Teacher Carol Cano  
• The music you heard in this podcast came from a cassette tape recording of a live performance in Vietnam that Adele's mother's friend, the late musician, Mr. Nguyen Tuc, gave Adele. This song is the base sound track for Adele's first film, El Paso Vietnam. The tape was labeled "Khong Minh Tao Cam Dan Tranh". The instrument is a Vietnamese Dan Tranh instrument. Email Adele at lostpicts@gmail.com if you want to hear the whole track.