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Tumi Johnson

Tumi Johnson

Physician, dance performance artist, and poet creating "Healing Poemdances" that combine medicine with the arts.

Jul 12, 2026

12:36
the village, the community healers.
12:39
And so this whole thing that I did of putting them in separate rooms because I couldn't choose I didn't understand.
12:46
I wasn't supposed to choose.
12:50
And the first time probably that I realized that, finally, that they actually are, and for me, everyone is different.
12:59
For me, they should be in the same room, the art and the medicine, was again when I was back taking care of those beautiful children.
13:08
And I had read this article about malnourished children with kwashiorkor responding well to stimulation and sound.
13:18
It was actually autistic children, but there's a lot of brain similarities with very malnourished children in autism.

6 MINS LATER

19:45
So we're talking about body and emotional healing.

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