Your Host & Guest Hosts
Your Host:
Em Chiappinelli
Em (she/they) is your host and the person who designed the pathway, hosts the calls, and sends out the prompts every week. Her background is in consciousness studies and social change work.
Em created Everyday Aliveness out of a desire for more opportunities to grapple with the impact the dominant culture's norms have on our awareness and ability to connect to the important things in life, in a container that's built to cheer each other on.
The program takes its inspiration from trainings in connecting with land, ancestors, the psychic realm, sacred sexuality, and workshops on multiculturalism and confronting white supremacy culture. Em holds the journey through Everyday Aliveness with a healthy balance of understanding, celebration, humor and hypocrisy.
Guest Hosts on the Calls
Occasionally the group will be joined by a guest host on one of the weekly calls: people whose life experiences and perspectives offer more depth to the theme for the week. They'll add to the group's conversation and guide the live practice on the call. They include:
Juan Robles-Gil Aleman
Juan (he/him) is a licensed mental health counselor and music therapist from Mexico City, who specializes in healing PTSD, C-PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship/family issues.
He brings a vibrant aliveness and sense of possibility to his patients, family, and friends, as well as a deep inquiry and multicultural openness to the potential of connection.
Mikael Darmanie
Mikael (he/him) is a multi-genre creative soul. He lives in NYC and performs throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean. He's a pianist, improviser, conductor, chamber musician with his group Warp Trio - crossing between jazz to hip-hop, rock, fusion and electronic music. He DJs and teaches masterclasses and workshops to students of all levels. Mikael sees connection across genre, in every possible dimension.
Julia Metzger-Traber
Julia (she/her) is based in northern Virginia and cultivates connection in all areas of life, from her work as an elicitive, healing-centered, racial justice facilitator, consultant and trainer, to a somatic practitioner, performance artist, and mother. She brings people together through the asking of big questions, and recently launched the PRX podcast: Mother is a Question.
Kaamilah Muhammad
Kaamilah (they/them) is an artist committed to embracing and elevating the meaning of our moment-to-moment living experience of the "mundane." They are based in central Virginia, at Stellar Roots: a collective of Black, Brown, and Indigenous people rooted in healing and in service of land based community living. Currently, Kaamilah is working on building homes with nature, remembering how to steward themselves, and growing a culture worth sharing with future generations.