La Cura

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 school.  
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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 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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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 curandero and activist.  
Dulce Juarez is a Phoenix based yoga practitioner, envirionmental justice organizer and traditional healer. You can follow her on IG @dulceperopicosa 
Manuel Criollo is a scholar, historian and long time racial and economic justice organizer based in New Mexico. You can follow him on Twitter @redpipil
Irlanda "Landis" Pulido is a long time activist and healer.  She currently lives in Los Angeles. You can follow her on IG at @landeh
Xochitcoatl Bello is two spirit indigequeer feminista, brujita, abolitionista, mexica, angelina, artivist, birthkeeper, truthteller + plant mamá. She currently lives in Oregon.   Follow her on IG @lamalayerbalove and learn more about her work at http://www.lamalayerba.com/
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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 and traditions that have been co-opted or forced into disappearance.  She is fiercely committed to the work of ending white supremacy systems, cultural and somatics change. 
You can learn more about her work and read here powerful blogs at https://www.susanraffo.com/
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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 Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement.
 
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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 perspective, empathy as an antidote, and where to begin in building pro-Blackness. 
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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 caretakers who need support share this beautiful offering with them. 
Born and raised in the border city of El Paso Texas and now residing in North Carolina, Bianca is deeply invested in supporting the healing of others in the community as well as her own healing, recognizing their interconnection.
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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 on collective care and what this pandemic moment is asking of us all. 
Healing by choice! is a circle of women and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Health and Healing Practitioners, based in Detroit. They offer a range of healing modalities for self and community care for the reduction of racial harm in mind, body, spirit and institution.
You can learn more about Healing By Choice by visiting https://www.healingbychoicedetroit.com/. You can follow them on IG at @healingbychoice.  You can find 
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