Roots and Resistance: Art, Activism, and the Spiritual Path with Rawan Roshni

Hadar's Web

Rawan Roshni takes us on an elemental journey through her life as a Palestinian woman, global citizen, and artist. She weaves stories about how the Earth - olive trees, roots, birds, our bodies - are inextricably linked to a spiritual path, offers us tools for facilitating transformative group processes, and shares insights into the interplay between personal and communal healing and activism.

You can follow Rawan through her website and social media: https://rawanroshni.com and @rawanroshniofficial

Rawan Roshni is a Palestinian/Balkan, Global Citizen, Arab Woman, based in Jordan. She uses her voice as an Artivist through her singing/songwriting and facilitation of brave spaces focusing her work in the SWANA region. She has co-founded multiple interfaith and world music projects and most recently has been touring her solo tri-lingual live-looping Music & Poetry performance Al-Tuyoor: Messages from the Birds for 2 years across 6 countries and counting! Her facilitation work over the past decade has ranged from issues such as conflict transformation, collective liberation, feminine leadership, catalyzing community, emotional processing tools, conscious relating, consent and more! She fuses Sound, Movement and Intuitive Rituals as tools in her work, bringing elements such as group singing, sound work through vocalization, whirling dance, and intentional nature-based practices.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

02:50 Rawan’s Story

08:48 Intersections of Art, Healing, Spirituality, and Activism and the Interplay between Personal and Communal Healing

15:30 Challenges of Organized Religion & Connecting to Sufism

23:11 What is Your Journey with God?

32:23 Whirling

42:21 What is Artivism?

49:51 Al-Tuyoor: Messages from the Birds, Rawan’s Touring Show

58:49 On Transformative Group Process

01:08:00 Breaking the Fourth Wall & Hadar and Rawan’s Collaborations

01:19:30 How to Follow and Support Rawan

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This podcast is facilitated by Hadar Cohen.

Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual.

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