Healing Kung Fu

Movies as Medicine: A Manifesto

To my fellow soul searchers, doom-scrollers, and movie marathon survivors,

This is a love letter to anyone who’s ever felt lost, broken, or just a little bit weird….and found solace in the flickering lights and dazzling images running across you screen.

Movies aren’t just entertainment.
They are *medicine*

📿(Well, they can be)📿

I’m silencing that inner voice that says watching movies is a waste of time, because every movie we’ve ever watched is a portal:
🪞a diagnostic tool for your soul
🪞a therapy session waiting to be unpacked
🪞a healing ritual disguised as pop culture.

As an Indigiq***r monk, therapist turned healer, and performance studies scholar, I’ve spent years understanding how stories transform us.
&& I’m here to tell you that those movies you’ve been consuming aren’t just a complex arrangement of pixels and plot lines.

They are your personal spiritual GPS.
📿(Well, they can be)📿

This is for my qu**rs, my BIPOCs, my fellow marginalized souls who’ve been told their stories don’t matter.

This is for anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider and searched for belonging in the most unexpected places.
Your movie nights are not an escape—they (can be) a radical act of self-discovery.

Let’s realize these can bes…

📿MY UPCOMING BOOK WILL SUMMON THIS REALITY FOR YOU📿

📚This book will teach you how to watch a movie like a shaman, a healer, an artist who understands that every story is a gateway to understanding yourself.
📚 This book will show you how to turn your movie night into two weeks of therapy

NETFLIX & HEAL: A MONKS GUIDE TO INNER PEACE THROUGH MOVIES

COMING SPRING 2025

Does this feel like a book you might read? If so, what would you hope to read more about?

Follow my book journey, link in bio

This just in: im a night owl 🦉

Growing up I used to stay up late writing poetry, training in martial arts, and meditating.

Why? I’m a moon child.
When the moon is up, my soul feels most alive and my spirit comes oozing out of my pores and apparently out of my finger tips.

If you get a late night text from me, expect some slightly confusing poetic musings 💜

Since my slow emergence out of my winter cave, folks have reached out to me and expressed that this year of the dragon is starting off rough. It seems collectively this winter to spring and rabbit to dragon transition has been harsh.

I spoke to my dragon and they guided me in crafting the response you see above.

Discomfort is natural ya’ll.
No I’m not glorifying pain or suffering
Yes I’m reclaiming an aspect of the growth process that our capitalist/colonialist society tries to make us forget about.

So onward we go
Or rather, following the words of , “awkward we go”
💜💜

Thank you to everyone who reached out to me via text, email, thought, or in dream world while I was away.

I became a full on hermit and retreated in my cave.

The past couple of months have been dark, quiet, frustrating, awe-full, and super insightful.

I purposely didn’t talk much about it because I was in the process buuuuuut I did take a moment to sit with the lovely and to share a little of what on m mind and heart.

Thank you two for holding me so tenderly and thank you for the hellouniverse podcast for capturing such brilliant insights that formulated right in the moment.

Go on, take a listen 🎧
Link in all of our bios!