LUAN Emotional Museum: Recent Episodes
Marion Cortina (LUAN's co-founder)
LUAN emotional museum is a physical and digital project that seeks to generate social awareness through three key concepts: Good, truth and beauty.
Our goal is to create social impact through talks, workshops and experiences, using art and mindfulness tools, we create a mixture of knowledge, feelings, and inspiration, an experience that impacts the participants, expressing in each of them the desire to be an agent of change for a better world and society.
Charles Darwin used to say it is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is the most adaptable to change that lives. As we live through the closing chapter of Season 2, Marion has an important and a close-to-heart topic to discuss: Change. She talks about how life is not static and the only constant thing is change and how it is essential to adapt to our creative flow and energies. We can’t wait to share what we have in our future projects! Stay tuned for everything that's coming in the following weeks, in the following months, because we're so excited about this new focus that we're having.
Unravel the invisible scars that are left behind. The beliefs that we carry of feeling not good enough. In this episode, Marion talks about how the external world, primarily the parent's actions, can cause traumas to their children. Let's dig deep into the root and cause of this feeling and try to rectify it.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Most humans are afraid to show their essence to anyone, even themselves. Marion takes us on a journey where we dive deeper into fear and how it acts as a barrier to personal growth, fulfillment, and self-acceptance.
The heart ideally desires pleasure initially. But if it fails, the heart longs to be out of pain. “The Heart asks Pleasure First" is a short and mystical poem by Emily Dickinson but has a deeper meaning.
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 transformation.
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 means to our emotional well-being and what we can hope for in the future.
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 improvement. Writing significantly impacts our lives; listen in to find out why and how.
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 improve it.
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 impostor syndrome and how to kill it through genuine and authentic inquisitiveness. Learning is a personal decision, and every individual we encounter has a whole universe to show us.
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 masculinity.
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 need. There is a need for healing in the victim and a deep need for healing in the one that caused the damage. What do people need after being harmed?
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 questioning yourself; is this will and desire coming from you? Go back to your heart and listen, connect. We discovered what we love doing most, touched on shame, and enjoyed perceiving ourselves as limitless beings.
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 world's way. The inner art critic, the dream killer, the creativity killer, the authenticity in the artist, making art accessible and turning the vision between short term to long term.
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 carrying upbringing responsibilities. When we disconnect from ourselves, we are easily influenced and don’t believe in our instincts. The invitation is to return to self-trust.
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 values in a world that admires masculine values may help ease the rough edges. Femininity may be perceived as weak, but feminine values are wild and powerful. Femineity is not defined by motherhood, and it does not pertain mainly to women. How can we value, appreciate, and protect mother earth? How can we bring the mother energy into everything we do?
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 serendipity's ideal conditions, like curiosity. This conversation is about measuring serendipity and creating a space for it.
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 always room for practice. Focusing on the feeling of the desired state is the ultimate creative experience.
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.
We’ll touch upon the role of poetry, beauty, magic, and myth in our ecological mindset.
We’ll explore questions about bioregion and the role of language in how we think about the living world.
What are the mistakes we often make that distance us from life?
How could you design your work and life around natural principles?
Join us in this uplifting and eye-opening conversation about our life in our environments and find some practical, proven ways to take responsibility and action.
This LUAN Podcast episode is on the individual journey to authenticity. Moncaya talks about intuition and finding her own voice, including the roadblocks she’s found along the way. We touched upon the common fear of shining and the possible guilt behind being all you can be. We asked her if she knew she would become a musician if her emotions guided her creation and how her creative process unraveled. Join us in this robust conversation on personal power.
In this episode, we’ll talk about females in the world of money. Women represent the fastest-growing category in entrepreneurship worldwide, especially in social businesses. Are there still differences between men and women regarding compensation, risk, and rank? According to Guzman and Kacperczyk's (2019) study, females are 63% less likely than males to obtain external financing in terms of risk capital. The most significant part of the gap derives from gender differences. Why is this still happening in 2022? What are we missing? Join us to address these and other pressing questions in an expansive conversation.
Intimacy is the core value in any relationship, and how we can access it is an art. Let's talk about sensuality, desire, sexuality, shame, and rejection—so many ideas, emotions, and benefits to talk about with sex coach Hannen Khan.
Technological advances are not only part of but the result of human nature. How proud we stand; we can heal, deliver, aid, express, expand, and transform in ways never before seen in our history. The future of innovation is explosive, its growth is exponential, and the implications are almost absolute. We have it in our hands to take this power responsibly, lovingly, kindly, and ethically.
Vivian Lan and Marion Cortina share a necessary conversation on the future of technology and the regulations we have to face and debate.
Sharonna, the creator of The Big Dream, talks about collective consciousness and creation. The artist inside us has a vision of what we want for our future, so all artistic expression can build towards that main intention. On our latest LUAN podcast, we talked about artivism, the concept of transforming through art, and the capacity to weave a reality through our creations. Follow the link in our bio to listen in.
Like sweating, drinking water, getting sleep, and practicing mindfulness, artistic expression is a habit required for holistic health.
We are all artists; creation is our natural exhalation.
This is what Daniela Escalante advocates for, the artist in all of us. She is a songwriter and performer, international speaker, and overall eloquent creative.
This LUAN Emotional Podcast is a conversation between Daniela and Marion on the relevance of allowing our creative processes to be of importance. Who would you be if you weren’t afraid to show yourself? How authentic can we get?
Let’s allow the crazy, embrace the mayhem, and prioritize the artist that lives within.
Listen to this enthralling conversation, and it is our promise you will not leave unchanged.
LUAN Emotional Podcast, oh my! What a treat.
The creation begins in the spirit as an action to satisfy the soul. How do we create space for creative flow? How do we turn our life's questions into answers with artistic expression?
We are proud as a peacock to share with you our first LUAN Emotional Podcast: talking about fashion and spirit.
Paola Hernández (handle IG @paolahernandez) is a philosopher and fashion designer in New York City. She weaves, meditates, mothers, and creates fashion to reflect and answer her most profound questions.
For Paola, fashion manifests collective consciousness and holds great potential for individual liberation. The clothes we wear can empower us, connect us, and remind us of the eternal dance of presence.
Come and eavesdrop in this intimate and delicious conversation about fashion, art, and our soul's journey.
An inner voice calls us to express ourselves, a common urge to shed light on the world that lives and breathes within us. At LUAN, we deem this light the savior, the common thread, the missing link, the answer. As the need to expose our souls grows, our commitment to creative expression evolves.
You’ll find our weekly podcast for intimate enjoyment, a space to illuminate our personal universes of wonder and awe.
We will explore topics that combine mindfulness, art, reflection, and action. Our objective is to share the light we hold and open a space for others to show their fire.
Plugin and take us with you while we engage in timeless conversation and share our love for art, beauty, and creativity.
LUAN Emotional Podcast, inspiration on the go. First episode: December 8th.
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