LUAN Emotional Museum

In this podcast episode, Marion summarizes this book and shares a refreshing activity of creating a vibration board inspired by Rebecca Campbell.

Marion briefly summarizes the book, “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor, and talks about the four characters with the whole brain  

This episode is an attempt for us to listen and talk about this personal topic. Marion walks us through some context from "The book of Joy" by Douglas Abrams and shares her experience as a mother about loneliness and kids.

We all have created in flow and pushed hard to get the creativity flowing. In this podcast episode, Marion Cortina reads Jennifer’s Healey poem about creativity: “Orange energy.” Let us know which is your favorite part of the poem.

We welcome you to a new season of LUAN Emotional Podcast, where we talk about art, read about art, and analyze and breathe art. Send us any questions or topics to our social media @luanemotionalmuseum.

What have in common, being in the army and being a dancer? Sumisha Shankar talks with Marion about how beauty is gratitude, self-compassion, embodiment, and connection between beings. In the end, we find what we need in life's simple and slow pace. Tune in to a joyful conversation of finding our way through dance and creative meditation.

A special episode to deep dive into the creative process fibers: the emotions, the flow, the doubt, the rejection, the self-knowledge adventure. Klaudia Oliver, a cultural alchemist, and ambassador, advocates for an imperfect, social, and interdisciplinary approach to arts and culture. If we focus on the process more than the result, we can find gems in collaboration to achieve social transformati...

When Elizabeth Armesto talks about body movement, you consider seriously standing up and start doing it! So many benefits for our whole being and so much time living unaware of our magnificent body. Come to this conversation about our bodies and the innate urge to move, dance, feel the world and express ourselves through movement. 

Feeling liberated, less anxious, overcoming depression and fear, healing traumas, PTSD, stuttering, chronic pain, addictions, and anxiety for terminal illnesses are effects researchers are finding in new treatments with micro-dosing and macro-dosing with psychedelics. In this provocative episode, Dr. Joyce Vasquez-Braverman helps us to understand the recent developments in medical science, what it...

Music is the art of frequency; we humans carry the power to communicate with our vibration and sound. Music helps us accommodate and make sense of our emotions; it helps us feel better, broader, and whole. In this episode, the talented and compassionate Pascale Caristo shares her journey and the message she wants to transmit through music.

Aligning our careers to our mission and passion is not easy, but the reward is grand. Following our hearts requires courage. In this episode, we talked to Alex Rojas, founder of MELE, a journaling method to develop habits for turning hopes and ideals into tangible actions. We talked about the wisdom that we all carry, the magic of writing, ignoring our inner critique, and the power of incremental...

The health of our gut impacts our emotional state. Affectations in our gut impact digestion, cognitive abilities, emotions, energy levels, and much more. If we have an imbalance, we may experience depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, fatigue, poor concentration, and brain fog. In this conversation, we go over simple steps to quickly check your gut health and critical actions to implement now and...

Everybody has a great life story; you may listen to it if you know how to guide them with questions. Curiosity is a compass, and the excitement of learning new things keeps us thirsty to ask questions. Emma talks about interviewing skills and keeping our inner child alive in this episode. She dives into writing, metaphors, telling stories, and listening to stories. She also touches upon the impost...

Confusion can become a state of being, and clarity is the antidote for this mindset. In this episode, Michael will help us get clarity on ourselves, our interior, our desires, and our challenges. Sometimes we follow someone else's dream or expectation, abandoning our own path; this is a significant source of confusion and entanglement. Clarity helps us live with purpose, centered, and inspiration....

Modern masculinity has to do with being brave enough to speak up about your feelings and desires. The toughness and aggressiveness associated with masculinity are fortunately having a slow death, allowing men to move towards a more healthy definition of modern man. This LUAN podcast episode will talk about vulnerability, truth, honor, courage, and other attributes that make modern and mature mascu...

A conflict has the potential to become a window of transformation. How do we create conflict, and how can it be restored? In this podcast episode, we talked about the restorative paradigm and how to implement it in our lives and communities. As a community, we are co-responsible for our wellbeing. What happens to one person affects the community. The restorative paradigm focuses on repairing the n...

Liz has seen the main roadblocks in her years of practice: humans feeling unworthy, insecure, and not good enough. What a contradiction! Limitless beings feeling insufficient... In this episode, we talk about how to know our essence and identify our passion. What can we do when we get confused between the needs and wants of others and our needs and wishes? The constant invitation is to keep questi...

Artistic projects in public spaces are a win-win between societies, governments, and citizens. In this episode, we talk about how public art shapes the identity, culture, and safety of its installed place. We discussed the many benefits of art in society; artists bring so much educational value, psychological value, and well-being. We also talked about new cultural projects that have shifted the w...

The tribes that have been represented in art for ages aren’t familiar anymore. Women are terrified of motherhood because it has become a sole responsibility when it used to be collective or communal. In this conversation, we visit art that reflects motherhood as survival, and we touch on the values of motherhood through different disciplines. Society places demands on women who are already carryin...

Motherhood is a life-changing experience, and modern living has taken away much of our tribal systems for upbringing. Caring for children used to be social responsibility, and now this focus falls upon the single household, usually the mother. Motherhood was a collective process that has made single, and this overwhelming experience can be lonely, challenging, and confusing. Embrace more feminine...

Some believe that life happens to them; not everyone feels responsible or impactful in their own life. Some believe in luck, giving authority to external factors, believing success is dependent significantly on chance. What if we told you serendipity could be enticed? That there are right and wrong conditions for favorable coincidences to occur. There are identifiable approaches to fostering seren...

We may start chasing what we want, but Mitra invites us to become what we seek. We are in constant rebirth, and in this episode, we talk about the ability to change and the process of creating a new self. We go over the liminal space between our past and our future self, starting small, feeling fear, creating our desired life. We are a constant work in progress, not a finished product, so there is...

This episode is about learning to locate ourselves in ecology, a concept that goes by the name of animism. Alexa advocates that the role of human beings is restoring life, and she’ll share historical examples and profound ecology principles to prove it. We’ll answer some questions about our bioregion, and she’ll help us learn to talk and think about climate change in a positive and valuable way. W...