Light Alchemy by Lior Allay

Light Alchemy Podcast

Epic, Erogenous, Emotional & Other Italian Virtues with Vanessa Cuccia of @Chakrubs

4/7/23 Click to Listen!

Join me and the Masturbation Maestro, Vanessa Cuccia, in a salacious, epic conversation on all things sacred, sensual, and full of song. If you're wondering about the throat to vulva/root chakra connection, this will be a great episode for you! We move through the musical theater of italian culture to the altar of pleasure. A very sex and body positive episode.

Vanessa Cuccia is the visionary founder and creator of Chakrubs, an innovative sexual wellness brand that masterfully integrates the healing properties of crystals into their products to foster self-nurturing and holistic well-being for individuals seeking not only physical pleasure, but also spiritual and emotional support. Through her brand's unique ethos, Cuccia has empowered her loyal following to identify and overcome energetic blocks while fostering greater creative expression. A talented musician and conceptual artist herself, Cuccia passionately advocates for the intrinsic connection between sexual and creative energies.

Connect with Vanessa and get you some rubs ~

 

Memes for the Queer Utopia + Transformative Justice with @Softcore_Trauma / Margeaux Feldman

2/2/23 Click to Listen!

In this episode we hear Margeaux's personal story, what led them to the memespace, +  what they've learned from living in a chronically ill body. We talk about queer wounding, attachment trauma, healing and wholeness. This episode is packed with delicious queer and trans culture/literature bits and fantastic book recommendations. If you're curious about transformative justice and how YOU can contribute to the Queer Utopian Agenda, this one's for you!

Margeaux Feldman (they/them) is a writer, educator, artist, and activist originally from Toronto, now based in between Edmonton, AB and Los Angeles. They hold a PhD in English Literature and Sexual Diversity Studies from the University of Toronto, where they wrote a dissertation about the intersections of trauma, chronic illness, intimacy, and care. Margeaux recently completed certificates in Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy from The Embody Lab and Embodied Social Justice from Transformative Change. Their creative writing has been published in PRISM, GUTS: A Canadian Feminist Magazine, The Puritan, and the Minola Review, amongst others -- and they are the author of 11 self-published zines. Margeaux just finished their first book manuscript Touch Me, I’m Sick and is currently working on their next, Queer Wounds: Reckonings on Relationality and Harm. They also run the popular meme account @softcore_trauma

To learn more about the work that they do and how to support them ~

 

Clitoris Magic in Orgasmic Meditation: Shining a Light on Truth w/ Aubrey Fuller

1/26/23 Click to Listen!

Aubrey Fuller has been with OneTaste and its associated organizations — and has been practicing Orgasmic Meditation — for 14 years. She is known for her keen intuition and exquisite care in working with people as a teacher and coach. In her work with clients, Aubrey helps people to discover and bring out their truest self. Once a shy introvert without much of a voice, she is now a voice for Eros having its place in the world and women owning their power fully. 

 

Healing Belly Up: Kitchen Tops, Foodies, + Queer Family Traditions

12/30/22 Click to Listen!

Lezlee is a Hatha Yoga Teacher who has been practcing yoga asana and philosphy since 2009. After becoming a certified teacher, Lezlee began guiding movement, meditation, and breath-work as substance abuse recovery, mental health support, and nervous system restoration. A queer, shy, adoptee, Lezlee leans into yoga practices to understand and lessen suffering, and to cultivate a sense of worthiness for their Self and others.

  • Lezlee’s Sister's book: www.maryannaking.com/bastards/

  • A Queer Dharma: jacobyballard.net/book/

  • Website (under construction): lezleeann.me

  • Instagram is still best to connect with them: @lezlee_says

 

Orgasmic Meditation, Sex Cults, + Cumming to Cure Capitalism

12/22/22 Click to Listen!

This is the story of how Orgasmic Meditation changed my life. I was 8 years a mother before I experienced my first orgasm with another person. I was deeply traumatized and unable to find safety in my body, unaware of just how little ALIVENESS I had access to. I devoted my life to the study of human sexuality + tantra in an effort to heal my wounded eros. I felt horribly lonely, confused, at war with my body, + distrustful of my sensations before I found these practices. Then came orgasmic meditation! It blew me open, showed me what is possible, initiated me into to the state of full-body YES that is our true birthright as mutli-orgasmic gods. I began to really be in partnership with my body for the first time. I went from having delicate, dry easily torn, vulva tissue with no appetite of its own to living with a primal, insatiably sensual, sensitive, playful, and strong root. Every aspect of my life form health, career, to relationships began to thrive. This juicy aliveness melted out from the center of my being, reorienting all my cells, my perspective, + ultimately the trajectory of my fate. I have ended generational curses + anchored in generational wealth + blessings through ѕєχ magic like σяgαѕм¢ мє∂ιтαтιση This ancient, sacred practice is gentle, accessible, + powerful. As with any technology that truly works, there is push back culturally. The status quo does not want to see: EMBODIED INTUITION NATURAL RHYTHMS RETURNED SOMATIC HEALING because all these things make us SOVEREIGN BEINGS that are harder to control + exploit for labor to serve the capitalist system. So they call it a cult, they steal private footage of intimate experiences + rob people of their autonomy in an effort to discourage others from trying this. I challenge you to try one σяgαѕм¢ мє∂ιтαтιση session yourself + decide.Do NOT watch the Netflix documentary + support this direct violation of people’s privacy + autonomy. They should be ashamed for their heinous, unethical choices.

Check out these resources if you want to learn more about what’s going on:

  • https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a41868591/orgasm-inc-onetaste-true-story/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11420793/Heading-UK-orgasm-classes-lauded-Gwyneth-Paltrow-damned-Netflixs-Orgasm-Inc.html#comments

  • https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawsuit-asks-netflix-release-film-orgasmic-meditation-misappropriated-rcna55379

  • Netflix documentary: https://www.netflix.com/title/81487901

  • Medium.com articles: https://medium.com/onetaste Science foundation: https://iomfoundation.org/ OM & Trauma healing (5 min) https://vimeo.com/758333902/859bb5a732

  • OM & Depression healing (5min) https://vimeo.com/761270037/f755511fc5

  • OM App link (and stories): https://instituteofom.com/

  • Manifesto download: public link where you enter email

 

Completely made up and completely real: The Infinite Gender Cube w/ Lauren Levi

12/20/22 Click to Listen!

In this episode we talk w/ Lauren Levi about performance, authenticity, gender, coming out, drag, and SO much more! Then she takes us through how to use The Infinite Gender Cube: A theoretical tool for folks to visualize, articulate, and explore their identity and self expression. Lauren is a queer trans woman currently living in the midwest. After engaging in the world of professional theatre, she began creating a social media platform that allowed her to perform, entertain, and educate on queerness and other social topics. Outside of content creation, she spends most of her time prepping for her upcoming drag shows.

  • personal instagram: @nowitslauren

  • drag instagram: @lady_piphone

  • personal tiktok: @nowitslauren

  • drag tiktok: @ladypiphone

  • twitter: @nowitslauren

  • venmo: @nowitslauren

 

Envisioning the Utopia: Beyond Tourism to Respectful, Rooted Travel w/ Sonia Erika

12/2/22 Click to Listen!

From weed to music, Sonia Erika is the daughter of formerly undocumented laborers. Her mission is to use multi media content to explore the narratives of laborers, to demystify capitalism, cannabis, and tech all while humanizing sex workers. She creates content in a variety of mediums such as video editing, graphic design, group facilitation, listening. Her vision is to connect the physical and virtual world in a holistic health conscious manner She is very familiar with collectives and cooperatives. It is her ideal working space. Although there are challenges she appreciate working in a non-hierarchical structure, which is why she’s so excited for web3 and blockchain technologies. She tells stories through music with a nomadic band under the title @DeathIsABusiness "Papaya” is the first album she created in Mexico after 21 years of being an "illegal alien.” DIAB records music with individuals from various countries including: Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. Prior to music Sonia Erika I lobbied to legalize weed for black and brown people in the state of Massachusetts. Aside from DIAB, Sonia Erika is a member of @eatme.land a collective empowering travelers, artists, and co-ops.

 

Divinity Experiencing: Intuition, Surrender + the Tale of Twin Flames w/ Brittany Deigh

11/30/22 Click to Listen!

In this episode we talk about psychic awakenings, intuition development, motherhood, surrender, twin flames, and soul mates w/ Brittany Deigh! @divinityexperiencing is a Psychic Medium and Spiritual Teacher here to help us talk about body acceptance and the process of surrender with our body’s journey. Recently initiated into Motherhood, having a very challenging pregnancy and birthing her baby by an unplanned C-Section, she will help us get some perspective on what it means to truly SURRENDER to the body’s path and love it through all the waves of ups and downs. Connect with Brittany at www.Divinity Experiencing.com on YouTube at Divinity Experiencing

 

Living with EDS: Secrets of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome w/ Catching On Thieves

11/21/22 Click to Listen!

We chat w/ fellow Ehlers Danlos Zebra bae Catching On Thieves about all things EDS, healing, pleasure, pain without suffering, and so much more! 

Catching is a multimedia artist who creates to both understand what is to be & to stay alive. She writes of spies & prophets, Y2K conspiracies & the relationship between abstraction, perception & interoception. Titles of her recent works include, "Memory, Vein," “Mulata She-male Gets it From All Sides,” & “Not One & Simple, or, What Would James Baldwin Do?” She was resident at the Queer Materials Lab, Translab, The Performance Intensive, PAPA, PAAFF, and Session 9 of the Raw Materials Academie hosted at the Philadelphia ICA in Spring 2022. She is currently getting her MFA from UPenn in fine arts, and is a 2023 Queer Art mentorship fellow. Under the mentorship of Lilly Wachowski, co-creator of the Matrix franchise and Sense 8, she will be working on her first feature film. You can find her online at www.catching on thieves.com

EDS/Dysautonomia Resources + Tools we discussed today:

 

Rest, Receiving, + the Magic of Motherhood w/ Neko360

11/16/22 Click to Listen!

Talking with Neko Three Sixty aka @devocean_hawk_heart about rest, opening up to receive more deeply, the mythical path of motherhood, the necessity of community, and the magic all around us.

Neko is a multi-faceted diamond witch devoted to the path of the alchemical marriage; where our opposites (like pain and pleasure, good and evil, separate and oneness) are equally held with divine reverence, so that our suffering within and without may be transmuted into gratitude, deep learning, playful awareness and magic in action! She is the Divine Domme of our production crew at www.Mythaca.com and regularly melts into prayerful puddles on the dance floor.

She has decades (and lifetimes) of experience and deeply studied and practiced Tantrika, RYT-1000 yoga teacher, Sound Healer, Reiki Practitioner, Herbalist, Tarot + Astrology, and Psychic healer. She hosts and DJs (as DevOcean) Dance Sanctuary, a consent based, conscious dance and contact improv event every Thursday at the Foundation of Light.

For more info on what services, classes and events she offers go to www.nekothreesixty.com

To dance to her DJ sets: www.mixcloud.com/nekothreesixty

 

Pushing the Boundaries of Visual Poetics: a Photo Review w/ Richard Louissaint

11/10/22 Click to Listen!

This unique episode is a conversation w/ photographer + filmmaker Richard Louissaint. We explore the poetic symbolism of images, talk about the visual techniques that make our souls sing, and review a selection of images we created together. We discuss what we see and how we arrived there through the creative project. If you are (or aspire to be) a model, photographer, filmmaker, or visual artist you'll really enjoy this. The video portion is available on www.patreon.com/LiorAllay  Watch the music video we talked about HERE: https://vimeo.com/753607862/aa83a0a44b Richard Louissaint @figureswithrichlouis is a first-generation Haitian-American filmmaker and photographer from New York City. Growing up in Queens, he was exposed to a wide spectrum of the Caribbean diaspora but was primarily influenced by Haitian and African-American culture. His work centers on people of color, especially those of Haitian descent, through portraiture, film and documentaries. His work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, and most recently at the Wyckoff House Museum. His films have screened at the Haiti Film Fest, New York Short Film Festival, and Newark International Film Festival. Richard also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College. www.RichardLouissaint.com

 

Sensual Spellcasting, Pleasure Witchcraft, + Channeling through Improvisation w/ FeatherPistol

11/1/22 Click to Listen!

Happy Samhain! Hold onto your broomsticks bitches, in this episode we're diving into all things: ritual, tradition, channeling, ceremony, seance + sensual spellcasting from a fellow pleasure priestess Feather Pistol. You can find more of her work on featherpistol.com + patreon.com/polefortheglobe or connect on Instagram at @featherpistol + @polefortheglobe Feather Pistol is an earth worshipping pole artist and activist.  She specializes in solo pole performances in a series of personas, each character expressed through a unique combination of makeup, costume and music. Featherpistol has travelled the world as a circus pole acrobat and performance artist, performing all over the world!  Today she is the proud founder of "Pole for the Globe" an online community platform for social justice and environmental protection.  Her patreon tribe "ATREYU" has donated over $4,500.00 to charity since November 2017.

 

Talking Self Portraiture + How Do Asexuals get Erotically Embodied with Bunny Luna

10/24/22 Click to Listen!

We talk with Bunny Luna about erotic embodiment and how it intersects with asexuality, ecosexuality, and self-portraiture. Explore more of Bunny's work here: www.BunnyLuna.com Support their work + join us in The Burrow on Discord by joining www.patreon.com/BunnyLuna  We mentioned 8 Steps to Creating the Intimate Explorations You Love — Embody More Love by Zahava Griss in this episode.

 

Romance + the Spectrum of Attraction w/ Marcus Rasaan

5/28/22 Click to Listen!

Interview w/ Marcus Rasaan. Get clear about WHAT attracts you to other people + WHY! Investigate the spectrum of attraction as it shows up for you + train your self awareness so that you can make CONSCIOUS choices in your romantic + sexual life.