“If you feel that you are someone with a soul and a heart and you care, you must remember that your time will soon come. It’s here for souls like you. The way has been made so painful for you. You are allergic to this way of life. But know that you are here to add your ingredient to the recipe of sacredness. You bring us back to where we need to be.” Jaiya John
E226 Jaiya John on Rest, Intimacy and Liberation // A Balm for the Tender Soul
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About this interview: 
What is the true cost of our numbness, and how can we alchemize it into deep, loving intimacy?
This conversation with Dr. Jaiya John is a balm, for tender times, tender hearts – a remembrance of how to touch tenderly, inwardly and outwardly.
Dr. Jaiya John, born as an orphan on the sacred lands of the Ancient Puebloans in New Mexico’s high desert, walks the world as a freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker, revered across continents. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression. In this tender episode, Amisha and Dr. Jaiya weave a story of human connection—layered with vulnerability, healing, and the soft light of hope. Together, they lean into our collective longing for liberation from oppression, the raw courage needed to meet grief and emotional pain, and a soul-deep inquiry into how technology shapes intimacy in a world that often feels so far apart.
Together we unpack the dynamics of sharing and the tender layers of intimacy, revealing how societal pressures often force us into isolation and numbness. With wisdom and care, he illuminates the importance of guidance and community to heal wounds, reminding us of the strength found in emotional vulnerability.
This conversation echoes a call to action—a tender yet powerful reminder to nurture our hearts, relationships, and communities with intention and grace. This is not just a conversation; it’s an invitation to live fully, dream wildly, and touch tenderly.
“For me it’s a sacred word, balm. It’s a divine word and it just helps me to remember how sacred this work is, how sacred it is for us to share whether it is writing or art, painting, dancing, singing, social mobilisation for justice. However we express ourselves, when we let it be pure then it does serve as balm. ” Jaiya John
Dr. Jaiya John was orphan-born on Ancient Puebloan lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, poet, author, teacher, and speaker. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression. The mission has donated thousands of Jaiya’s books in support of social healing, and offers grants to displaced and vulnerable youth. He is the author of numerous books, including Daughter Drink This Water, We Birth Freedom at Dawn, Fragrance After Rain, and Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of The Gathering, a global initiative and tour reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Jaiya holds doctorate and master’s degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Everest. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass, bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace.
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