Zhenevere Sophia Dao's guest appearances

Zhenevere Sophia Dao

The Embodied Way Podcast

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Life is a Festival

The Mythic Masculine

Sophia Dao

Penney Peirce

Charles Eisenstein

Nick Mulvey

Tim Chang

Chip Conley

Sarah Wu

Adrian Grenier

Marian Goodell

Michael Murphy

Jason Silva

Janet Stone

Paul Revere

Edward Sharpe

Jamie Wheal

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“Will my culture thank me if I disrupt its complacency?” Zhenevere Sophia Dao asks some of the most piercing, identity-deconstructing and soul-generating questions of our time, while she also embodies the answers with deep, poetic presence and humility. In this episode, we speak to this rare teacher, philosopher, embodiment artist, poetess, and transgender woman,  about the mysteries and the politics of gender, and about what she calls “the transgender necessity”. Zhenevere takes us on an up-close and personal journey into her own process of reclaiming her true gender, and, with spellbinding urgency, invites us to consider the social need to not only accept but to celebrate transgender people as messengers of what is possible in a life– and in a culture. ABOUT OUR GUEST Zhenevere Sophia Dao is a poet, novelist, playwright, and director of the SACRA Theater Company in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A transgender woman, she is also the founder of the practice tradition of MogaDao and the MogaDao Institute. Zhenevere was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and has published fiction with Penguin Books. Find more about her work:  www.mogadaoinstitute.com   THIS EPISODE’S WISDOM BITE "Self-othering, or becoming trans inside of a culture or a self,  is what enables an absolute emancipation and a mythopoetic recreation of a new way of being in the world."  "The transgender person is not just to be accepted but to be celebrated as deeply needed and necessary: The self-othering that is a necessary part of a transgender person’s emergence is actually a very important part of everyone psychological makeup. We often make great changes in our lives when we become ‘other’ to ourselves. It is a powerful tool of transparency  to one’s soul that everyone needs. And transgender people, we are masters at that, at self-othering– and of taking that self-othering into transformation and evolution."

“Will my culture thank me if I disrupt its complacency?” Zhenevere Sophia Dao asks some of the most piercing, identity-deconstructing and soul-generating questions of our time, while she also embodies the answers with deep, poetic presence and humility. In this episode, we speak to this rare teacher, philosopher, embodiment artist, poetess, and transgender woman,  about the mysteries and the politics of gender, and about what she calls “the transgender necessity”. Zhenevere takes us on an up-close and personal journey into her own process of reclaiming her true gender, and, with spellbinding urgency, invites us to consider the social need to not only accept but to celebrate transgender people as messengers of what is possible in a life– and in a culture. ABOUT OUR GUEST Zhenevere Sophia Dao is a poet, novelist, playwright, and director of the SACRA Theater Company in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A transgender woman, she is also the founder of the practice tradition of MogaDao and the MogaDao Institute. Zhenevere was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, and has published fiction with Penguin Books. Find more about her work:  <a href="https://www.mogadaoinstitute.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mogadaoinstitute.com</a> THIS EPISODE’S WISDOM BITE "Self-othering, or becoming trans inside of a culture or a self,  is what enables an absolute emancipation and a mythopoetic recreation of a new way of being in the world."  "The transgender person is not just to be accepted but to be celebrated as deeply needed and necessary: The self-othering that is a necessary part of a transgender person’s emergence is actually a very important part of everyone psychological makeup. We often make great changes in our lives when we become ‘other’ to ourselves. It is a powerful tool of transparency  to one’s soul that everyone needs. And transgender people, we are masters at that, at self-othering– and of taking that self-othering into transformation and evolution."

The Transgender Necessity for Cultural Evolution, with Zhenevere Sophia Dao

“Someone who creates a practice tradition this vast is someone who can't survive in the world as it is.”Today on Life is a Festival, Zhenevere Sophia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains. We discuss what Zhenevere calls the “Transgender Necessity” wherein transgender people ask society to wake up to the magnitude of their own desire. We talk about MogaDao as a collection of artful practices to sensitize the human organism and why sensitivity makes life valuable. We also discuss my own exploration of my feminine self, and Zhenevere explains why sexuality is not a puzzle to be solved. We finish the conversation with a recitation from Zhenevere’s Hamlette, a retelling of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. MogaDao is a galaxy of Post-Daoist practices and philosophy created by Zhenevere and taught at the Mogadao Institute in Santa Fe New Mexico, my hometown and where I studied “The Erotic Basis of Being” in the summer of 2018.  So come along as we follow the wild mountain shepherdess through an erotic dance with the invisible world.LINKSMogaDao Institute: https://www.mogadaoinstitute.com/20 Questions, Hamlette, and the Transgender Necessity | Zhen Dao | TEDxBerkeley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTpMpM72-U&amp;t=938s	TIMESTAMP:13 - Sensitivity in speaking about transgender identity and how anger only comes when we insist upon misunderstanding:20 - Why “what would be a home run podcast?” isn’t a very interesting question:28 - The Shepherdess in the Jemez Mountains:37 - Eamon and erotic fiction:42 - Peak experiences might actually be looking for us:47 - The MogaDao artful practices of sensitizing the human organism:53 - Sensitivity makes life valuable and makes it impossible to be tempted by lesser satisfactions:59 - It’s where your mountain is, not where your desire is1:06 - The Transgender Necessity1:14 - Femininity is not a tool to administer to masculine mistakes1:25 - Post-Daoist perspective of Yin and Yang1:36 - Sexuality is not a puzzle of identity to be solved1:44 - Does becoming Zhenevere mean arrival?1:55 - Hamlette, Zhenevere’s reimagining of Shakespeare

“Someone who creates a practice tradition this vast is someone who can't survive in the world as it is.” Today on Life is a Festival, Zhenevere Sophia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains. We discuss what Zhenevere calls the “Transgender Necessity” wherein transgender people ask society to wake up to the magnitude of their own desire. We talk about MogaDao as a collection of artful practices to sensitize the human organism and why sensitivity makes life valuable. We also discuss my own exploration of my feminine self, and Zhenevere explains why sexuality is not a puzzle to be solved. We finish the conversation with a recitation from Zhenevere’s Hamlette, a retelling of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. MogaDao is a galaxy of Post-Daoist practices and philosophy created by Zhenevere and taught at the Mogadao Institute in Santa Fe New Mexico, my hometown and where I studied “The Erotic Basis of Being” in the summer of 2018. So come along as we follow the wild mountain shepherdess through an erotic dance with the invisible world. LINKS MogaDao Institute: <a href="https://www.mogadaoinstitute.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.mogadaoinstitute.com/</a> 20 Questions, Hamlette, and the Transgender Necessity | Zhen Dao | TEDxBerkeley: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTpMpM72-U&amp;t=938s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTpMpM72-U&amp;t=938s</a> 	 TIMESTAMP :13 - Sensitivity in speaking about transgender identity and how anger only comes when we insist upon misunderstanding :20 - Why “what would be a home run podcast?” isn’t a very interesting question :28 - The Shepherdess in the Jemez Mountains :37 - Eamon and erotic fiction :42 - Peak experiences might actually be looking for us :47 - The MogaDao artful practices of sensitizing the human organism :53 - Sensitivity makes life valuable and makes it impossible to be tempted by lesser satisfactions :59 - It’s where your mountain is, not where your desire is 1:06 - The Transgender Necessity 1:14 - Femininity is not a tool to administer to masculine mistakes 1:25 - Post-Daoist perspective of Yin and Yang 1:36 - Sexuality is not a puzzle of identity to be solved 1:44 - Does becoming Zhenevere mean arrival? 1:55 - Hamlette, Zhenevere’s reimagining of Shakespeare

#72 - Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence | Zhenevere Sophia Dao (MogaDao Institute)