Smiling is the Best Medicine

Syncing our Cycles with the Sacred Feminine

In this episode, Britton Esposito, La Huesera (The Bone Woman) brings us home to Chicago (virtually) for the final interview of the season with Veronica Rottman, her long distance soul sister, fellow yoga teacher, doula, and practitioner of other womb-related healing services.  The two converse about the importance of empowering and healing oneself through the sacred act of (menstral) cycle syncing and childbirth (well, bleeding) through storytelling and normalizing. During a year when we were all encouraged to turn inwardly, both women speak about the importance of shifting society from a masculine outwardly driven energy to one that also integrates an inwardly turning, more intuitive, feminine energy.  By doing so, they agree, we will create new positive experiences and associations with our bodies and our planet and free ourselves of pain.  This interview is an invitation and a portal, just like to womb, to step into our power, the creative power of the Sacred Feminine.

Nutritious Contact

In this Foot(bone)notes episode, La Huesera (Britton Esposito) gives a summary of parallel Spanish episode (see La Huesera Podcast: Espanol) with guest, Daiana Chivel (body therapist and other herbs). La Huesera invites her Pod tribe (listeners) nourish themselves with contact at a time when physical contact is complicated. This episode is a sweet caress for all who miss touch and specifically for parents and infant caregivers seeking to communicate and connect with a simple act (infant massage). Nutritious Contact softens the challenge of being born or giving birth in the Pandemic of 2020 and also offers a philosophy of life in which we can be better contact with our bodies and the world around us. For those who are not parenting at this time, the episode is also an invitation to connect with the simple things of life and with pleasure. If you come from Argentina, or another culture where contact used to be as normal as breathing, do not miss this episode.  Contact Dai @pachadai Connect with Britton, La Huesera, @la_huesera Connect with producer, Christian Fresno @christianfresno

Emotional Health: Gratitude, Airport-style Hugs and More Shiny Tips

Today is all about being thankful, and in this week´s episode, guest Nacho (Ignacio) Falcón emphasizes the importance of gratitude for emotional health. As co-coordinator of a group called Emotional Awareness (and wearer of many other professional hats), Nacho highlights some additional tips for our emotional health, including my personal favorite: turning every hug into an airport hug. This episode is hilarious, shiny and a big virtual airport hug for the soul. Connect with Nacho @ignacio_falcon_ Connect with La Huesera (Britton) @la_huesera Connect with producer Christian Fresno @cfresnoproductions @christianfresno

Smiling is the Best Medicine

In this unique episode, and first edition of Foot(bone)notes, La Huesera (Britton) gives a short synthesis of her Spanish language interview with Tatiana Quintanilla Trigo, as a way to make this medicine and episode accessible across borders to her English-speaking listeners. Taty and La Huesera first met at Osteopathy school in Buenos Aires, and share a lot of common ideals about health. La Huesera describes what the therapy Osteopathy is and then La transmits what la doctorita (Taty) believes is the most important tip for good health, smiling.  La Huesera shares specific tips and general advice from their Spanish conversation about how to reconnect with a geniune smile and begin to spread joy throughout our communities. Connect with Taty on IG and FB @tatyqt Connect with La Huesera (Britton) @la_huesera Contact producer, Christian Fresno, @christianfresno and @cfresnoproductions Listen to the full episode in Spanish on the parallel channel LA HUESERA PODCAST: ESPANOL.

How to Occupy your Time with Occupational Therapy

Let's take care of the health of our brains holistically and individually. In this interview with guest, Kristine Osmond, occupational therapist and fellow expat living in Buenos Aires, we speak about what this therapy focuses on and how it can be applied to overcome this moment. We learn how to occupy all that extra time at home with tasks that bring us joy and mental health. Kristine is a specialist in spinal cord injuries and also neurological development. She´s like the Mary Poppins of health and pulls from her bag so many creative tips (including tons of uses for beans you didn´t know!) so that you, or you and and your kids, can keep yourself busy at home. Listen closely to get those craneal juices flowing! This interview really moves me to the bones. Find her on IG/FB here: @therapynomad Connect with Britton (la Huesera) here: @la_huesera Connect with producer, Christian, here:  @christianfresno @cfresnoproductions