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Kapwa KonversationsArt is Wellness with Jerome ViloriaOn this episode of the podcast, we have Jerome Viloria, who I met through the dance community. Our journeys have followed similar journeys of integrating our identity into our art and our careers serving the AAPI community, through the theme of art as a form of wellness.Jerome is a queer, non-binary public health professional based in Astoria, NY by way of the Hudson Valley. With a BA in Biology and minor in Philippine Studies, they moved on to pursue an MPH in Community Health Sciences & Practice at NYU, answering a call to destigmatize sexual and mental...2025-06-2731 min
THERAPY+Expert Voices: Music Therapy (How Music Can Help Treat Mental Health Conditions)
Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi, MA, MM, RP, MTA, NMT, Doctoral Student
Psychotherapist, Music Therapist
Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi is a certified music therapist and a registered psychotherapist in Ontario, Canada. She has Masters degrees in music therapy and counselling psychology and studies at a doctorate program at Colorado State University. Aksana works with trauma survivors, victims of violence of all ages, and with neurodivergent individuals. She serves as Secretary of the World Federation of Music Therapy and a Co-Chair of the Online Conference for Music Therapy.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aksana_musictherapy
F...2025-06-0423 minKapwa KonversationsBrotherhood in Motion with Andrew SusenoOn this episode of the podcast, we have Andrew Suseno, who I met through his workshop Brotherhood in Motion: Explore Masculinity through Movement & Reflection. It was a powerful space for Southeast Asian men to move through and discuss concepts of strength, manhood, resilience, and care using a framework designed by Moving Rasa. Andrew Suseno is a Chinese-Indonesian American movement artist and Doctor of Physical Therapy, living on Lenapehoking land. Certified in Feldenkrais and Laban Movement Analysis, Andrew is the founder of Moving Rasa, a pioneering initiative that blends indigenous Indonesian philosophy with somatics and improvisational movement to h...2025-05-2337 minKapwa KonversationsCommunity and Communication with Robespierre DornagonOn this episode of the podcast, we have Robespierre Dornagon, one of my best friends for over 15 years! Listen as we reflect on the importance of community and communication, and reminisce on lessons learned witnessing each other grow and evolve over the years. Robes is the Founder of DirectStory an advertising resource group created by advertisers FOR advertisers to connect. Network. And grow their careers. He is also an Associate Director of Paid Social at Hearts & Science (a media agency) where he leads and coaches teammates on how to excel in their advertising careers. ...2025-03-3039 minKapwa KonversationsDimensions of Care with Isidora TorresOn this episode of the podcast we have Isidora Torres, author of Working with Feelings, to discuss the topic of Dimensions of Care.As a daughter of Filipino immigrants, Isidora greatly emphasizes understanding family dynamics and how they inform generational patterns. She has published work on her exploration as a Filipino-American within American culture and the impact of acculturation on identity. As a People Operations and Culture expert, Isidora has developed a genuine interest in the intersection of emotion and work, expanding on her findings about the cultural and emotional landscape of t...2025-02-0841 minKapwa KonversationsIt's About Time with Tanvi MittalIt’s about time! On this episode of Kapwa Konversations we welcome Tanvi Mittal, a coach and facilitator who holds reflective spaces, to join us to discuss all things related to time. You’ll hear us connect on:Our relationship with time growing up in our cultures Where do you find flow vs. resistance?Time as a concept – is it something you own? Experience? Something else?We think this is the perfect season to reflect on time as we begin to close out this year and make space for what’s next If you feel calle...2024-12-0529 minKapwa KonversationsCatching Up and Intro to Season 2Hi Everyone, I hope you are all well. I'm excited to catch you up on life since we were last on the air in early 2022! In this into to season 2 of the podcast we'll go into:what I've been up to these past 2 yearswhy bring back the podcast now?what am I learning/re-learning?what's next for this season of the podcast?what topics will we cover?I look forward to being in kapwa (to see the self in the other) with you all again!2024-12-0213 min
Diwa Soul SessionsEp. 3: Unapologetically Decolonizing God*Changed the order of the episodes due to Spirit's guidance.
Listen in for a more public stance that I take, to understand why I'm on a quest to contribute in liberation for Black and Indigenous women through healing and awakening - the purpose of Diwa Soul LLC.
🔥 It was late at night this past Saturday where I felt this sudden urge to record this episode.
🙈 Now, this episode has completely shifted the order of the next few episodes, to discuss more at hand a bit more of a zoomed...2024-06-2549 min
Mga Nakaka-relax na Tunog I by Relaxing White NoiseWhite Noise ng Higanteng Electric Fan | Napakahusay na Tunog para sa Pagpokus sa Takdang-Aralin, Pag-aaral, Trabaho sa Opisina (8 oras)Ang isang higanteng electric fan ay lumilikha ng isang malakas na white noise. Patugtugin ang tunog na ito upang mahusay na matapos ang takdang-aralin, trabaho sa opisina, pag-aaral, pagbabasa o pagsusulat. Mas mabilis mong matatapos ang mga bagay-bagay sa pamamagitan ng pagharang sa mga nakakagambalang tunog mula sa mga kapwa mag-aaral, katrabaho, at pamilya.
Sa Relaxing White Noise, ang layunin namin ay tulungan kang makatulog nang maayos. Ang episode na ito ay walong oras ang haba na walang mga patalastas sa gitna, kaya maaari mo itong gamitin bilang tunog para sa pagtulog sa buong gabi. Hinahayaan ka...2023-11-148h 00Kapwa Konversations2022 Updates and Kapwa Currentsea: Healing Our Money StoriesHi Everyone. We are hopping on the mic to share a bonus episode of what we've been up to since season 1 ended, what the vision for Kapwa Yoga and the podcast looks like for 2022, and an invite to our first event of the year:Kapwa Currentsea: Healing Our Money StoriesMarch 26th 3-5:30pm ESTIt will be a virtual space where we offer a combination of journaling, conversation, embodiment, and yoga to release the hiya (shame) around our money stories and remember that our inner worth is priceless....2022-03-1821 minKapwa KonversationsYou Just Need To Listen To The Hopes And Wishes That Have Already Laid The Foundation For The Ground You're Standing On with Christine JuguetaChristine is a professional actress onstage and onscreen. Most of her experience has been in the regional theatre and she has worked at Tony Award-winning companies such as the Public Theatre (in NYC), the Alley (in Houston), the Denver Center and Utah Shakespeare Festival. She recently Guest Starred on CBS’ Magnum P.I. as a 1986 Imelda Marcos!She was a theatre kid in my teens and started out at the performing arts programs at Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, TX and the School for Creative and Performing Arts at Chula Vista High School in San Die...2021-05-061h 22Kapwa KonversationsThis World Between Sanskrit and Tagalog Opened Up In Those Two Words with Natalie MacamNatalie is both a Yoga Teacher and Essential Oil Educator. She has been on an odyssey to find home within herself through her travels around the globe and in her quest for deep connection, radically fun living and healing. Among her most adventurous journeys were in her political science days at St. Petersberg Technical University in Russia on a National Security Education Program Scholarship through the University of Florida and her 8 years in Hong Kong in an Upper Level Management role for a major shoe company. After experiencing a deep shift in her core through her initial studies of yoga...2021-04-2345 minKapwa KonversationsKnowing That You Are Enough All The Time with Chloe AlcidChloe Alcid is a professional dance artist and movement teacher based in Manila, Philippines. After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance in 2014, she underwent her 200-hr Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training and decided to take a break from dancing. During this break, which ended up lasting for 4 years, Chloe accumulated over 700 hours of yoga training, focused on developing her voice as a teacher and, most importantly, worked on healing her relationship with her body, food, and movement. She started dancing again in 2018 with the non-professional competition team REDph and eventually st...2021-04-031h 00Kapwa KonversationsYou Put Meaning Into It By Speaking To Your Students with Stefanie ChungStef is all about intensity. Off the bike, she’s accustomed to high intensity interval training and circuit training. Workouts that she believes only yield results as great as the effort that is put into them. Stef leads each class with the utmost level of intensity and resistance while having equally as much fun. Always hoping to push and inspire her riders to approach each class to the best of their abilities, Stef pairs her workouts with a classic “no pain, no gain” mentality.You can connect with Stef on Instagram at @stefaniefit.uk, and learn more about her cl...2021-03-1843 minKapwa KonversationsRevitalizing and Getting Back Reverence for Intuition with Ea TorradoEa Torrado is a multidimensional healing artist whose medicine blends the use of body, voice, ritual and storytelling. She is also the founder of Daloy Movement, a guided and durational free-form healing dance practice originated and developed in the Philippines, that many people find liberating, transformative and healing.With 17 years of professional dance and teaching experience, coupled with a lion's heart for social justice, Ea created original contemporary performance rituals that engage both lyrically and viscerally with the politics of identity, society, sexuality, collective rage, grief, spirituality, and healing. She practices reiki and other intuitive healing modalities, a...2021-03-0458 minKapwa KonversationsHow Yoga Can Help Build Trust, Safety and Openness w/Marissa ToleroMarissa is a compassion-focused therapist and certified yoga instructor at the 200-hour level. She runs a virtual private practice where she works with women and the LGBTQIA+ community to build awareness, skills, and a compassionate self. As a queer woman herself, she has a personal and professional understanding of what it means to hold these identities and uses this knowledge to care and support her clients. Marissa brings together a personalized yoga practice, talk therapy, and a guided meditation into every session she provides. She leads with compassion and her heart and works endlessly to create a virtual space...2021-02-1855 minKapwa KonversationsWho You Become Is More Important Than What You Accomplish with Tim LandichoTim Landicho is a personal trainer and online coach based in NYC. He got his start in the fitness industry because of his fascination with movement (since he is a dancer), but his driving force gradually evolved as he realized that training, nutrition, and mindset are all simply vehicles for living a more fulfilled life -- one that constantly nourishes us and allows us to give back to others.He is a coach at Mark Fisher Fitness and has been coaching in the online space for about a year and a half now. He enjoys working with all...2021-02-041h 06Kapwa KonversationsHow The World Can Shape You, And Hope You Can Shape The World with Jeffrey VillanuevaJeffrey’s yoga journey started in 2007, after graduating from Berklee College of Music. At the time he couldn’t afford to attend daily yoga classes, but the practice was such an emotional healing bomb for him that he learned on his own from DVDs, YouTube and attending one community class each week at his local yoga studio. Jeffrey moved to New York in 2009 and began practicing at Jivamukti Yoga School. In 2011 he completed the 300hr Jivamukti Yoga Certification, respectfully thanking Sharon Gannon and David Life for making that possible and continued on to complete the 500hr Jivamukti appre...2021-01-201h 03Kapwa KonversationsGrounding Meditation - Mountain VisualizationWe are back and want to share this bonus grounding guided meditation for the new year. Inspired by a recent trip to Hawaii, we use the visualization of the mountain as a reminder that strength and stability lies within.We'll be back with our next Konversation later this week. In the meantime, you can stay connected with us on IG at @kapwa.yoga. Thank you, Maraming Salamat, and catch you on the next Konversation!2021-01-1705 minKapwa KonversationsFilipino Food Is Already Rich And Doesn't Need To Be Elevated with Kimberly CamaraKimberly is the chef and co-founder of Kora, an apartment-based bakery born during the COVID-19 pandemic that explores the richness of Filipino culture & flavors through cuisine and her late grandmother’s recipes. She is an alumna of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York with pastry & savory NYC restaurant experience for teams like Make it Nice and USHG. Kimberly is a proud Filipino-American and Queens-native.Connect with Kimberly on Instagram @kimberlymcamara, follow Kora @fromkora to find out how to place an order, and check out the Eater article that started it all. Join us Mo...2020-12-1748 minKapwa KonversationsMaking Food That Gets You to Re-Think Something with Paolo EspanolaPaolo Española is a wandering diner in search of a good meal and an ever-elusive identity. He started this blog during his soul-crushing stint as an accountant and later co-founded Hidden Apron, his side project that dabbles in everything from catering, hosting pop-up dinners, podcasting, and everywhere in between. He is also a contributing author to the best-selling cookbook, “The New Filipino Kitchen”. He believes that food is a universal language that can solve the world’s most challenging problems, help people believe in their own potential, create communities with shared stories, and realize that in bre...2020-12-0353 minKapwa KonversationsWe All Feel It Differently, But We Feel Something with Melani De GuzmanAn LA native dedicated to staying in the Lenape Territory for awhile. Melani De Guzman is a Filipinx-American multidisciplinary dance artist, actor, educator, community facilitator, and healer. The heart of her work is rooted in healing, sensual embodiment, and reclaiming ancestral lineages. She has integrated her diverse practices and collaborative partnerships into site-specific solo works, dance films, and movement offerings.Melani reclaims her power and truth studying somatic movement practices, mysticism through astrology, community activism, and forever being a student. Her evolving purpose is to create potent and inspiring medicine- projects, initiatives, works, spaces...2020-11-1852 minKapwa KonversationsTo Be Present and Yielding with Marie Lloyd PaspeMarie Lloyd Paspe originally from Singapore, Toronto, and Boston, is a Filipina-American multidisciplinary dancer, singer, choreographer, and concept creator in Queens, NYC. Marie currently performs and tours with @billtjonesarniezaneco based in Chelsea, NYC, choreographs her own works for stage and film, and teaches pilates. She has danced for Carolyn Dorfman, Renee Jaworski, Jae Mann Joo, and performed with @alvinailey Dance Theater. Marie graduated summa cum laude in Dance and Business from @fordhamuniversity /Ailey 2016.Using deconstructive designs, vocals, projections, textures, and abstraction; Marie creates with a matriarchal world in mind and a reclamative story that unfolds. Eastern he...2020-11-0558 min
365 Brothers - Listening to Black MenI Am Because You AreDavid Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris is accustomed to people asking him "Where are you from?" The answer "Colton, California." Which often leads to "Well, where are your parents from?" That answer, too, is "Colton, California." He's has compassion for those trained to see him as "other." His business is training people to people to connect with another. His father's side of the family was brought to the United States among the millions of enslaved Africans. In the West African language of Zulu, Ubuntu means "I am because you are." Kapwa means togetherness or interconnectedness in Filipino, his maternal...2020-10-2343 minKapwa KonversationsYou Don't Need Permission to Love Another Person, and That's What Queerness is to Me with Jewel SalesJewel Sales is a queer Filipinx artist, feminist, personality, and activist. Originally from New York, grew up in Old Bridge, NJ, and now residing in Los Angeles.Jewel’s work embodies body positivity, feminism, and queer representation. As a queer artist, she felt a sense of urgency to create safe spaces and has been inspired by making people feel a sense of connectedness.Jewel noticed the LGBTQ+ community didn’t have enough nightlife options other than drinking and clubbing. That's when “Paint and Sip with Jewel” was born. She started to host her own BIPOC + queer pai...2020-10-2151 minKapwa KonversationsEverything Should be Trauma-Informed No Matter What the Label Is with Matty EspinoMatthew "Matty" Espino is an 800-hour+ certified yoga and movement instructor/teacher trainer with specialties in trauma-informed vinyasa yoga, yin, and restorative yoga. Additionally, he has completed training and speciality certifications with Kids & Teens Yoga, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga Tune Up®, Accessible Yoga, and 305 Fitness Dance Cardio. Originally from California, Matty moved to New York City in 2013 to pursue his MA in TESOL at Columbia University. During a rather difficult time in his life, he was brought to his first NYC yoga class that opened his curiosities to the potential benefits of yoga and wellness. Ultimately, the practice chan...2020-10-071h 04Kapwa KonversationsIntroducing: Kapwa KonversationsJoin Paul Jochico as he amplifies the voices of Filipino/x folks in the health and wellness space, and builds community across the diaspora. We will use the indigenous Filipino wisdom of kapwa, or shared inner self, to inspire and remember that we are all connected. By sharing our stories we can better see ourselves in each other and be inspired to live life in kapwa. Subscribe now for updates and learn more about us at @kapwa.yoga and our website.2020-10-0101 min