Chloe Calderon Chotrani & Lisa Xiu

Chloe Calderon Chotrani (b. 1992, Manila, Philippines)

Chloe is a queer Filipina, Sindhi, and Singaporean movement artist, somatic therapist, and embodiment facilitator. She responds to the poly-crisis by advocating for ancestral ancient animistic practices through her labor of bridging embodied wisdom to communities. Her work is rooted in de-conditioning colonialist-capitalist destructive ways of living, by prioritising a politics of care, community creation, and working with and within the Global South.

She works with people who experience the wound of separation between the mind-body-soul, which may come in the forms of chronic stress, anxiety, disease, pain, inflammation, and burn out. Drawing upon mature experience in world movement arts, complementary medical health, trauma sensitive facilitation, bodywork modalities, and earth-based wisdom. Along side, holding relational, cultural, and ecological sensitivity in its highest regard. She works with a belief that the deeper we can connect to our bodies, the more we can connect to the earth.

More on Chloe here: http://bodyas.earth/chloe

http://instagram.com/bodyas.earth

‍Lisa Xiu (b. 1978, Ede, The Netherlands)

‍Lisa is born to Vietnamese-Chinese boat refugees and was stateless for her first seven years, until her family based in in Amsterdam, where she was raised. She straddles the balance between her roots in East Asia while being culturally raised in The Netherlands. She moved to Singapore in 2017.

She is passionate about conscious tourism, food and beverage, hospitality, and web design and development. She has been moulded by entrepreneurship for 25 years in luxury retail, multiple F&B businesses, and web development as a bridge to translate information effectively. Along side, she pursued documentary journalism photography. Lisa volunteers frequently with NGOs and non-profits such as TEDx, Red Cross, Aidha, and Dutch-Chinese organisations.

Currently, Lisa collaborates by creating the supporting structures of the undercurrents of Body as Earth; as a co-facilitator through offering sound scapes during workshops, producing international retreats and events, and translating this work through digital presence. Creatively, Lisa confronts the difficulty of partial hearing loss and has found piano, Tibetan singing bowls, and other healing instruments to be a deeply supportive part of her journey.

She holds the grounds for a more inclusive and intentional way of life through her boundless curiosity for the world.

More on Lisa here: http://instagram.com/lisaomomuro

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