Grief House - Portals

In this episode we explore loss as it pools at the feet of our fathers and our mothers. We consider the ways loss might function as an offering; could forest creatures line their nests with our downy loss? Could it be licked up and swallowed and turned into life by beings know and beyond our knowing? Could it be that our loss is not just something we need to learn to tolerate - could it be that ou...

In this episode (our first interview!) we talk with Alison Alstrom about yoga, goddesses, perspective and the right way to pronounce the word asana. We discus the joys and troubles of being physically manifest and why one might decide to embrace having a body despite it all. We talk about the concept of portals from the perspective of the South Indian yoga tradition Alison studies and how knowing...

In this episode we talk about feeling: charting feeling, herding feelings, feelings as landscape, feelings as Savannah cats, feelings as colorful blobs. We discuss how we inherit and develop language to describe our feelings and the ways that language does and does not bring us closer to knowing ourselves and each other. We also consider alternate communication options for transmitting feelings -...

In this episode we explore trust – what it means to “earn trust”, the markers we use to identify people as trustworthy, and experiences and circumstances that build barriers to trust. We talk about baths as a shortcut to secure friendship, swimming in the ocean in combat boots and the particular kind of trust evoked by Millie Vanilli in the early 90’s.

In this, our inaugural episode, we discuss the nature of reality, how our individual perspectives on the world shape the reality we experience and how our unique realities overlap and influence each other. We talk about fitting in, epilepsy, high school and the mind-opening value of friendship.