new visions for healing is a podcast series exploring the healing powers of creativity and in our personal and professional lives with an intention to benefit all of the natural worlds. It aims to broaden our understandings of social justice, by approaching it from affective, artistic, and somatic perspectives. Each episode invites different practitioners, who will share their insights and practices with us in a communal space of sharing, imagining, and experiencing.
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#1 - Introductions
In the first episode hosted by Mina Djordjevic and featuring new visions co-founder, Agnieszka Bulacik, we explore topics of learning, healing, empathic listening, self-discipline and self-compassion.
Further resources to explore:
Joanna Macy, Work That Reconnects - https://workthatreconnects.org/
Jack Kornfield - https://jackkornfield.com/
Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Radical Dharma - https://radicaldharma.org/
Love and Rage book by Lama Rod Owens: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/608716/love-and-rage-by-lama-rod-owens/
Audre Lorde - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde
#2 - Bringing ourselves up
What is the difference between living in your head and living in your body? How to cultivate hope in the times of hopelessness and what are we actually healing from? In this episode Agnieszka Bułacik talks to Mina Đorđević about her path as a yoga teacher and a human being, difference between collectivistic and individualistic cultural mindsets, and shifting from purely capitalist environments into those that bring more connectedness and awareness. We are talking about healing from years of self-negation, overworking, adjusting to people and places. We are talking about sisterhood and womanhood. And we are inviting you to the sound meditation practice and exploring the healing powers of your own voice.
Further resources to explore:
Bell Hooks, All about love - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607.All_About_Love
Rebecca Solnit, On Hope - https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/03/16/rebecca-solnit-hope-in-the-dark-2/
Elizabeth Jennings, Friendship - https://gladdestthing.com/poems/friendship
The Heart of Yoga: Developing a Personal Practice - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56303.The_Heart_of_Yoga
Paulina Miu, the vocal witch - https://www.facebook.com/paulinamiututu
#3- Community, craft, and rest
How are systems of power influencing our idea of rest? How has the idea of rest changed historically and why? What are the secret Intentions and esthetics of lullabies? Reclaiming our ‘right to rest’? How can we connect to nature in the cities? We also look at society through the lense of fermentation of beer and women’s place in it.
In this episode " Community, craft and rest" host Mina Đorđević explores healing through the eyes of fermentation process, cultural diversity of lullabies, and rest as a tool for change with new vision co-conspirator Nat Skoczylas. Politically she is an anarchist, and a spiritual one. In daily life she combines art, research, writing and activism as approaches to building communities.
Further resources to explore:
Sylvia Federicci, Caliban and the Witch- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliban_and_the_Witch
Jay Jordan - The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination - http://labofii.net/
Julia Morandeira - https://juliamorandeira.com/
Local, bio food sourcing in Berlin - https://www.bio-berlin-brandenburg.de/bio-wissen/bio-in-der-region/gemeinschaftshoefe/
The Right to Rest Collective - https://etudes-du-milieu.net/etudes/jet/resters-united
FemAle Brewery - https://www.instagram.com/femaleberlin/?hl=en