Posts in category Open Questions Podcast
OQ08: Life eternal, Part 2 (EN)
In the second part of the two-part conversation, Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak shares the ideas she had in mind when designing the technology of promession. She hopes that the method, that allows the dead body to become part of life again, will also contribute to how we in the West relate to death and dying.
Continue readingOQ7: Life eternal, Part 1 (EN)
In one of his gathas, or mindfulness poems, called Gardening, Thich Nhat Hanh writes about the cycle of life, "Earth brings us to life and nourishes us. Earth takes us back again. We are born and we die with every breath." But how easy is it for earth to take us back? This week Irina is joined by Swedish biologist and founder of Promessa Organic, Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak. In 1999 Susanne patented promession, the alternative, ecologically-conscious burial method, that supports life even after our death. Listen to Susanne's fascinating story about the path from composting food remains to helping people bring a gift of themselves to earth by becoming part of it.
Continue readingOQ6: Living well with a chronic illness, Part 2 (EN)
Do you choose to survive or thrive in the face of hard circumstances? In this second part of the two-part conversation, Andy McLellan and Erica Hamilton share some of the techniques they found useful in coping with the physical and emotional pain on their path of transitioning from surviving to thriving.
Continue readingOQ5: Living well with a chronic illness, Part 1 (EN)
This week Irina is joined with cherished friends Andy McLellan, PhD (via Skype from Canterbury, UK) and Erica Hamilton, PhD, currently living in Uppsala, Sweden. In this conversation Andy and Erica generously share about the most challenging aspects of living with a chronic illness. This first part of the conversation touches upon how our fast-paced life can lead to our disembodiment and pushing ourselves too far, the existing in the world of Western medicine dichotomy between the organic and the functional and how the absence of measurable cause of a medical condition influences the attitude of the medical establishment towards the patients. Andy and Erica also share how faced with a serious illness they had to learn to let go identifying with career and relationships and find a new way of being.
Continue readingOQ4: Andas! Du lever. (SW)
Denna vecka besöker Irina tvåbarnsmamman, dramapedagogen och andningspedagogen Christina (Kicki) Boström i hennes mottagning i Hågaby, Uppsala. Kicki hjälper sina klienter att lösa upp spänningar och frigöra andningen genom att använda sig av olika andningstekniker, individuellt och i grupp.
Continue readingOQ03: I love you! And you! And you! (EN)
In this episode Irina is joined over Skype by polyamory activist Franklin Veaux. Where does the idea that we can only love (romantically) one person at a time come from? Why do many of us believe that we can only commit to one partner/relationship at a time? How can being compared to others be a good thing for a relationship rather than seen as a threat to it?
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