Gorge Community Podcast

Yelizaveta Nersesova is the founder and creative director of SoTango.world. She speaks passionately about tango and our capacity to feel, process, learn, and express through social dance. She has been a dancer for many years and shares stories of how dance has transformed her relationship with herself. She is now on a mission to share the medicine of social dance as a tool for positive change in the world.  Our conversations demystify Tango and flow from self expression and learning to connection and exploration of one of the things that connect all of us, our power to move with music. Please check out https://www.sotango.world/ and their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/socialtangoworld

Zach and his guest Autumn Bay discuss their recent life transitions and their experiences with expectations and shifting direction as well as perspective. Autumn explains how dance has shaped the ways she navigates the planned and unplanned happenings in her life. We talk about pride, grace, love, letting go, and being aware of the lessons to be learned in this beautiful dance we call life.

After the most recent police violence in Kenosha, WI against Jacob Blake, a man of color, we connect with Karen Nelson, the Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator for the city of Appleton. From her childhood stories of learning Martin Luther King Jr.’s views on love and nonviolence, to experiences with lived racism, and a career working for true equality and progress, we explore what what it takes to connect in your community, how we can each learn and be courageous allies, and what we imagine a world of belonging  can be.

In this episode, Zach speaks about his experience moving from a small midwestern town to metro areas of California as a traveling physical therapist. Angela recounts her journeys of soul searching in Thailand and doing social development work in India. We talk about the joys and challenges of travel and how we work to apply what we have learned in our everyday lives.

In our very first episode, Angela and Zach, co-founders of Gorge Community, introduce the Gorge Community Podcast. Learn about the mission, origin story of the name “Gorge”, and where it all began. Join us for our first dive into what it means to connect, be well, and live purposefully.