Episode 28: How to Move Through the Madness with Dr. Andrea Jacobo

Dr. Andrea Jacobo—creative wellness practitioner, researcher, and poet—spent years studying the science of how bodies move while her right brain staged a full-scale revolt. The first-generation Dominican American became an exercise physiologist, Zumba instructor, and yoga teacher, understanding intellectually that shaking your hips (aka shaking a$$) opens the root chakra where creativity and fear live together, but it wasn't until the pandemic that she finally stopped running from her own words. She started sharing poetry again at protests in the Bay Area, watching her bilingual verses heal herself and others simultaneously. The Memphis poetry collective We Keepin' It P gave her stages to stand on, though she still struggles to call herself an artist without formal training. Her dissertation on reclaiming space led her to a study proving what she already knew: declaring your testimony is healing, whether in political spaces or through art.