Malek and Parneet speak about building capacity for joy, play and peace. Each shares how they navigated neglect and violence, figuring out how to survive from infancy and the work and commitment in showing up for their little ones inside, now a

S04E06: Take a shit & Free Yourself Pt I

Jul 29th, 2020 1h 52m

We share space with the amazing Sami, a sister-kin-bestie of Parneet. The three of us speak about spiritual work, transformative justice and the shadow that creeps in while doing the work, as well as surviving hardship, violence and oppression

S04E07: Take a shit & Free Yourself Pt II

Jul 29th, 2020 1h 11m

S04E05: Self Possession for the Dispossessed (Part II)

Jul 7th, 2020 1h 2m

Malek and Parneet speak about purchasing land to find safer space, navigating financial choices, figuring out community living and relationships, and the journey to find and hold our own space. They speak about how to move through the various d

S04E04: Self Possession for the Dispossessed (Part I)

Jul 1st, 2020 2h 31m

S04E03: The spiritual is political

Jun 24th, 2020 1h 45m

Malek shares with Parneet a post she recently wrote about the housing insecurity and domestic violence she is currently experiencing and has lived in all her life (tinyurl.com/malekspost) and together, they speak about the spiritual and politic

S04E02: White Psychosis

May 31st, 2020 2h 46m

Malek and Parneet speak about white supremacy and colonization as the riots in Minneapolis and throughout the US and Canada take place in justice of George Floyd, and other unarmed and innocent black folks getting killed. We decided to meet eac

S4E01: Who Am I To Record This Podcast?

Apr 1st, 2020 2h

After a very long break, Malek and Parneet return to chai chats. The first part is spent discuss physical illness and health related practices as Parneet continues to navigate chronic health issues and Malek begins figuring out body needs with

S3E29: Malek goes to Vipassana

Apr 1st, 2020 1h 20m

Parneet and Malek speak about Vipassana in the midst of winter, how it feels moving towards liberation while unlearning abusive mind/body patterns and moving towards instinctive practices through messages that tell us otherwise. Content warning

S3E28: There's Something In the Water

Mar 3rd, 2019 3h 17m

For this episode, we are happy to listen in on the recording of an incredible event put on by SistersInMotion and Climate Justice Montreal called There's Something in the Water: A Book Launch & Community Discussion on Environmental Racism & Lan

S3E27: This Is A Moment

Feb 8th, 2019 1h 36m

Big questions on the podcast this week as Malek, Dona and Parneet think about how to work and communicate effectively both as individuals and with others. Some topics include urgency vs. importance, pacing & sustainability, and the value of get

S3E25: India | Tunisia | Vietnam

Dec 13th, 2018 54m 17s

This is a very vulnerable episode in which we each talk about our relationships as first-and-second-generation migrants to the places our families are from. We are so used to hearing about these countries from other (read: white) people's persp

S3E24: This Ain't No Fuckin' Game

Dec 6th, 2018 1h 24m

We got together the day after our live show with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarinsha to debrief and decompress. We of course talk again about her incredible book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and we get into some of our own access needs in

S3E23: Care Work in the Apocalypse - Two Year Anniversary Live Show!

Nov 29th, 2018 1h 58m

Welcome to our second annual live show with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarinsha! First you'll hear Leah reading from their latest book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice and afterwards we all sit down together to discuss some of the themes in t

S3E22: What were you gonna say about Vivek Shraya?

Nov 22nd, 2018 1h 35m

This conversation is inspired by Vivek Shraya's latest book I'm Afraid Of Men - we all agree it's incredible and encourage everyone to go read it. We talk about everything from our religious & cultural upbringings ("if bro-bro is lusting that a

S3E21: Whats Your Real Name?

Nov 9th, 2018 55m 24s

This episode is a doozy. Its Parneet, Dona, with special guests Angie, Taha and later on SJ. We speak about everything from diva cups, to our real names, to remembering/not remembering certain names, video games, preparing duck for dinner, what

S3E20: Say NO

Nov 3rd, 2018 1h 6m

Its just Dona and Parneet this time. We start with a blessing verse over breakfast and then speak about building the ability to freestyle, be creative, dance and stay creative. We discuss the difficulty in keeping creative momentum going and ho

S3E19: Ripple Effect

Oct 19th, 2018 1h 21m

This chai chats is Malek and Parneet. We speak about friendship and relationships, connection to each other and reaching out in times of sickness/unwellness and how vulnerable and difficult this is. We talk about how relationship building is pa

S3E18: Life Dysmorphia

Oct 12th, 2018 1h 14m

We share chocolate mousse cake on Dona’s couch and Malek speaks about how to live a life as a single person, how to settle down into the present experience rather than live as if waiting for something else to happen. We speak about the struggle

S3E17: We Don’t Know Anything

Oct 9th, 2018 1h 22m

We have a delicious breakfast together and speak about the important of speaking from our own experience, our own truths and how challenging it is to not centre other people in our narratives. How to navigate relationships with integrity? How d

S3E16: Subjective Realities

Sep 24th, 2018 1h 43m

We speak about what we are looking for in relationships. Make some chai. Cut to talking about the ways in which meditation has changed us, our reality and way of navigating life. We speak about gaslighting vs. reality checking, and how to navig

S3E15: Our Earth Our Bodies Part II

Aug 14th, 2018 1h 26m

In the second part of this conversation, Dona and Parneet go deep in speaking about feelings and experiences of contraction and expansion, how to discern whether something is in service to us growing or not, whether nature is always moving towa

S3E14: Our Earth Our Bodies Part I

Aug 14th, 2018 1h

Dona and Parneet sit down for chai chats in Dona’s garden to go deep on the connect between relationships in nature and relationships between people and communities. We speak about the power of dreaming and curiosity for marginalized peoples. W

S3E12: Shame Gremlin Part I

Jul 31st, 2018 1h 19m

We speak about upcoming projects and trips. Malek shares worries about visiting family and we discuss how to feel resolve one sidedly when others are unable or unwilling to meet us in our resolution. We discuss what it means to accept and relea

S3E13: Shame Gremlin Part II

Jul 31st, 2018 1h 22m

Malek speaks about her depression. We discover what Parneet calls her shame gremlin, this recurring mental darkness that taints her everyday successes and impacts her life negatively. We discuss what it looks like to grow and accept our mental