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La Cura
by Mijente
La Cura will take you on a journey that centers Latinx healing and wellbeing. We explore what healing is and the possibilities for it, and engage in conversation with thought leaders, historians, spiritual sages, trauma-informed healers, traditional and western medicine practitioners, and many more.
Episodes
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Cultural Memory and Healing Justice
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...
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Capoeira, Spirt and Rebellion
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...
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The Power of Water Healing
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...
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La Sabiduria del Cuerpo
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...
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La Medicina del Reiki
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. La Cura...
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Seeding Afro-Indigenous Sovereignty
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…
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Decolonizing Yoga
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...
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Healing Eating Disorders
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...
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Let's Talk About the Covid19 Vaccine
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…
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The Politics of Health
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...
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Remedios & Reflections
Listen to our final episode of our Ofrendas series for Season two with these beautiful freedom fighter, healers, historians. They bring us a full episode of medicine through poetry, reflection and traditional remedios for our physical and spiritual nourishment. Jesus Villa is a Phoenix based...
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Fortifying in Covid Times
Beautiful conversation with, long time bodyworker, healing justice practitioner, activist Susan Raffo on collective care, tending to ourselves and meaning making in this global pandemic moment. Based in Minnesota, Susan works towards ending the medical industrial complex and lifts up practices…
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Breathing Release Practice with Mariella Saba
Mariella Saba shares a breathing practice to release the fear and anxiety energy stored in our bodies and attract the vibrations of joy, love, aliveness and liberation. Mariella who has her roots from Palestine to Mexico currently resides in Los Angeles where she founded and currently helps lead...
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Shame, Brown Pride and Pro-Blackness
In this Episode of La Cura, long time friends Marisa Franco, Director of Mijente and Francisca Porchas Coronado La Cura Podcast host and producer have a spiritual and political conversation about the impact of colonization, the role of shame, how pride plays out from a non-Black Latinx…
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Emotion and Spirit Support for Parents
Bianca Gragg, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, community member and revolutionary mother shares with us a reflection and short contemplative practice for parents and all those who are currently taking care of children during this time of quarantine. Whether you are a parent or know parents or...
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Collective Healing with Healing by Choice!
Healing By Choice! Joins us from Detroit, Michigan and they bring all the wisdom and nourishment you didn't know you needed. Adela Nieves Martinez, Marcia Lee and Amanda Hill, all members and healing arts practitioners share their story and their spiritual perspective on this moment, their take…
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Ofrenda: Traditional Healing Song with Adilia Torres
Adilia Torres, shares with permission a sacred song that came to a fellow healer through prayer. Listen, sign it as a healing balm for yourself and sign it in community for others to receive its powerful nourishment. This medicine song is a healing balm shared to you with love and for the healing...
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National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
Erica Woodland talks to us about his pioneering and breakthrough Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. Erica's work specifically acknowledges the harm and violence perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and...
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Decolonizing Mutual Aid
Veralucia Mendoza, Mijente member, Queer Afro-Indigenous migrant from the deserts of Peru and one of the main organizers and founders of the amazing Mutual Aid efforts in Toledo, Ohio. She joins us to talk about the history of mutual aid, its current invaluable practice during Covid times and...
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Mothering and Being Mothered
BONUS Episode for Mother's Day. Friends Carla Gonzales and Francisca Porchas Coronado engage in a funny, introspective and insightful conversation about being mothered by Latinx migrant mamas and how that translates into who they are today, especially as mamas themselves, the highs, the lows, and...
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Navigating Anxiety and Grief
Aida Manduley shares their wisdom as a therapist and educator on the nuances of anxiety, depression, and grief normalizing our feelings and encouraging our curiosity about them. Listen for the simple and valuable tools that they share on how best to tend to ourselves now and beyond this pandemic...
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Grounding Meditation
Luana Morales shares a grounding mediation and reflection practice with us this week! Luana is a Birth and Bereavement Doula, Death Midwife, Circle keeper, Officiant, Reiki Master Teacher, and Herbal Apprentice devoted to reclaiming our birth, death, and Afro-Indigenous healing practices. She is...
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The Impact of Covid-19 On Latinos in the U.S.
Listen to this special episode on the Mijente and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement's new report "The Impact of Covid-19 On Latinos in the U.S.". We’re dying disproportionately and bearing the brunt of this crisis. It is critical we tell our stories! Listen to how we are organizing for...
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Courage Meditation with Dr. Monika L. Son
Dr. Monika L. Son gifts us a courage and compassion meditation for this week's Ofrenda. A native New York Afro-Dominicana born to immigrant parents, educator/scholar/healer/activist, Monika actively integrates healing into teaching and learning spaces in higher education, particularly for BIPOC...
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Healing, Resilience and Power
Listen to the Resilient Strategies team--Mark-Anthony Jonhnson, Prentis Hemphill and Francisca Porchas Coronado, host of La Cura Podcast on Politicized Healing and what it can offer us in this moment of Covid19 and beyond to heal and build power in the way that we need to. Resilient Strategies is...
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Community Care Series: Ofrenda by Muertero Yamil
Muertero Yamil is a Pennsylvania based health worker on the frontlines of the Covid19 pandemic. He shares with us his grounding spiritual practice of the past 27 years and especially now as he navigates care giving for so many battling illness daily. Please share this practice with others! This...
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Community Care Series: Ofrenda by Dr. Diana Quinn Inla'kech
Dr. Diana Quinn Inla'kech shares holistic and traditional recipes and the healing power of plants for immune and spiritual support generously shared to her by two Curadera friends especially for this offering on La Cura. This offering is part of La Cura's Community Care Series which will include...
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Holistic Immunity Support
Kicking off our Community Care Series with Dr. Diana Quinn Inlak'ech who educates and grounds us on a holistic view of how to take care of our system and each other. Diana Inlak'ech, ND is a licensed naturopathic doctor at the intersection of social justice, spirituality and healing. Specializing...
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Storytelling as Medicine
Award winning HIV activist and artist, Louie A. Ortiz-Fonseca joins us to share about the creation of The Gran Varones Project, which uses storytelling to elevate the stories of Latinx & Afro-Latinx Gay, Queer, Trans, Bisexual Men & Bois and his hit Youtube show Kikis with Louie! Check out...
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Conflict and Transformation Part Two
Belia Mayeno Saavedra returns for the second part of our conversation on Conflict and Transformation. She takes us deeper into the intersection between conflict, vulnerability, shame and accountability. She answers questions by Mijente members on setting boundaries with family, moving past toxic...
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Conflict and Transformation
A politicized somatics and restorative justice practitioner, a tarot reader of 25 years and an initiate into the Orisha Oshun, Belia Saavedra Mayeno brings us her deep wisdom on what conflict is and how we relate to it making connections to shame, belonging, safety and dignity. Belia references...
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Sanacion y Resiliencia en Puerto Rico
Season 1: Lourdes Hernandez Rivera nos cuenta sobre los esfuerzos de sanación a través de su proyecto Caminando La Utopía y muchos más por toda la Isla de Puerto Rico dado la devastación de los terremotos recientes y el huracán Maria de hace dos años. Con miles de personas desposeídas por la…
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Parte 2: Politica de Territorio y Medicina
Season 1: Esta es la Segunda Parte de la conversación con Mimi Salvador sobre la política de su territorio en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, la cosmovisión de su gente y la medicina. En este capítulo Mimi nos comparte su pensamiento sobre el Ayahuasca que viene de la cosmología de su gente y el hecho…
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La Politica de Territorio y La Medicina
Season 1: La Cura's FIRST episode in Spanish! Este es el primer episodio de La Cura en español! Esta es la primera parte de una conversación de dos partes con Mimi Salvador Lucero, joven Kichwa de la área de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana. Mimi nos comparte sobre su comunidad de su pueblo originario...
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Death Midwifery
In conversation with Boston based Boricua and Death Midwife, Luana Morales we explore our relationship to death spiritually and emotionally, the influence of the medical industrial complex on our self-determination after death, and that of our beloveds, and the funeral industry's elitist history....
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Elevating Our Ancestors, Elevating Ourselves
Ancestors are complicated. Some of them we knew, loved immensely, and miss daily. Others we knew and their memory causes pain, and we hope to never repeat their mistakes again in the world. Either way, they inevitably live in us and in our families' costumbres, personalities and behaviors. Should...
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Healing Our Bodies with Food
The world might disagree on a lot. One thing is for sure--we all love food! From filling up our bellies with our delicious traditional dishes to treating our corazoncitos, physical pains, and illnesses with our ancestral ingredients, food is central to who we are and what we do. In this episode…
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Flower Essence Medicine for the Heart and the Spirit
We use the essences of flowers in many forms as a people, from our abuelita's manzanilla teas to the curadera's esencias floridas also known as tinctures, flowers have served our bodies and hearts for generations. In this episode we converse with Flower Doctor, Organizer and Masters In Family...
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Is Therapy Only for the Locos?
Increasingly, Latinx people are more open and actively seeking counseling and therapy as a source of healing. At the same time, many in our familias still believe it is only for the "locos" or the "blancos", but the root of this belief is not unfounded. The history of psychology has been used as…
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Healing Our Communities
Let's talk healing! Healing is a word that is becoming increasingly popular, but what does it really mean for so many of us in the Latinx community? In this episode, spiritual and political leaders Manuela Arciniegas y Manuel Criollo engage in the polemic about what we are healing from, and what...
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Coming March 9th: La Cura
Introducing La Cura Podcast by Mijente in collaboration with Resilient Strategies. Hosted by Francisca Porchas Coronado. La Cura will take you on a journey that centers Latinx healing and wellbeing. We will explore what healing is, the possibilities for for it, and engage in conversation with...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
La Cura will take you on a journey that centers Latinx healing and wellbeing. We explore what healing is and the possibilities for it, and engage in conversation with thought leaders, historians, spiritual sages, trauma-informed healers, traditional and western medicine practitioners, and many more.
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La Cura will take you on a journey that centers Latinx healing and wellbeing. We explore what healing is and the possibilities for it, and engage in conversation with thought leaders, historians, spiritual sages, trauma-informed healers, traditional and western medicine practitioners, and many more.
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La Cura is created and hosted by Mijente.
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