La Cura

Black Queer Feminist cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer of 30 plus years, Cara Page, join us to talk cultural memory and healing justice.  

Cara is one of the architects of the healing justice political strategy, envisioned by many in the US South and deeply rooted in Black Feminist traditions and Southern Black Radical Traditions of the Global South. She is co-founder and current leadership team member of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective.  She is also the former ED of The Audre Lorde Project, and former National Coordinator of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment.

You can learn more about her work at her, Changing Frequencies and Healing Histories on her webpage. Follow her on IG @changingfrequencies. 

Learn more about the Kindred Healing Collective on their webpage. 

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Jahsun Fakolade Edmonds joins us to share about the spiritual roots of Capoeira and the martial art's connection to Black rebellion and liberation. 

Fakokade is a Capoeira practitioner of 20 years.  He is also a Professor of Africana Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills and a Babalawo, IFA Priest.  

You can learn more about Fakolade on FB under Jahsun Edmonds and on IG under @oluwo_fakolade. Learn more about his IFA Temple, Idin Ka at idinkaaifatemple.com. 

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Rocio Navarro joins us for a beautiful conversation about the power of water as an element and tool for healing and rebirthing ourselves. Rocio is a healing artist that works intimately and creatively, with water. She is Vaginal Steam Hydrotherapist, Ceremonialist, Spiritual Counselor, Energy and Sound Healer with a Sociology degree/background.

You can learn more about Rocio Navarro by going to her website rocionavarro.org and you can follow her on IG @water_healing. 

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Para nuestro segundo episodio de la temporada en español, nos acompaña Luis Colunga, persona no binaria, antirracista, terapeuta psicocorporal, psicólogo y sexólogo educador. Nos ilumina sobre como la sanación somática y emocional combinado con una perspectiva antirracista y social puede crear espacios de contención y acompañamiento, espacios para poder sentirlo todo.

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Episodio en español

Julia Laporte, practicante del Reiki por mas de 25 anos nos acompaña para iluminarnos sobre las raíces, filosofía y practica de esta modalidad de sanación que hoy es tan popular y muchas veces explotada.

Puedes seguir a Julia en las redes sociales bajo Julie Laporte. 

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Kiani Conley-Wilson, is a grower, activist, and organizer based in Troy, NY. and Assistant Program Manager of the Soul Fire Farm join us. 

Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system. They raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of the ancestors, they work to reclaim their collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. 

Learn more about the Soul Fire Farm at soulfirefarm.org and follow them on IG at @soulfirefarm 

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Speaker, teacher trainer, Yoga culture advocate, and best-selling author Susanna Barkataki shares the roots of yoga and its tradition of social justice and liberation.  In the West, Yoga has been commodified, exploited and stripped from its earth based framework and practice. Susanna grounds us in the Yoga earth based philosophical essence and reminds us yoga is for all bodies to restore balance and connection to the elements. 

Deepen your understanding and buy Susana Barkataki's book, Embrace Yoga's Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Practice.

Learn more about Susanna Barkataki at SusannaBarkataki.com 

Learn more about Susanna's Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute. 

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Gloria Lucas, Founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride joins us to talk about how the power of healing disorders can be found in deepening our understanding of the intersections of history, capitalism, oppression and trauma.  Her work has been featured in NPR, Teen Vogue, MTV,  Huffpost, Los Angeles Times, and Bitch Magazine. 

You can learn more about Gloria and Nalgona Positivity Pride by visiting their platforms.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nalgonapositivitypride/

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/NalgonaPositiveShop

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nalgonapositivepride

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NalgonaPride

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Dr. Neelam Pathikonda joins us to talk about the Covid19 Vaccine: the concerns, the questions and the myths.  Dr. Pathikonda is a family medicine osteopathic physician with a public health background working in South Los Angeles and was a community organizer for over a decade before medical school.  

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Mark-Anthony Johnson Kicks off Season 3 of La Cura Podcast!  As a licensed acupuncturist and experienced organizer, Mark-Anthony joins us to discuss what is health and who benefits from us being well enough. He invites us to look through a liberatory lens of wellness and names key elements in building a society that truly centers wellbeing. 

Mark-Anthony Johnson is the Founder and Director of the Frontline Wellness Network, a network of health workers working to end the public health crisis of criminalization and incarceration. 

You can learn more about Mark-Anthony at resilientstrategies.org. Follow him on twitter @FrntWellNetwork and on IG @frontlinewellnessnetwork

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