Kapwa Konversations

Hi 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!

Christine 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 Diego. She went on to the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts 2-year program and received her BFA in Musical Theatre at the Boston Conservatory before going on to the graduate classical acting program at the University of Delaware Professional Theatre Training Program on a full scholarship.Christine considers herself a “multipotentialite”, having explored careers in non-profit, education and religious environments. She studied at NYU's Steinhardt School of Education and got an MA in Educational Theatre (focusing on colleges and communities). She also did graduate work at Andover Newton Theological School in the Theology and the Arts program. Christine is also a singer and songwriter. She spent years directing music in various churches, singing in several bands and is often a featured vocalist at special events.  Christine is a certified 200-hour registered yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance. She received her training through the Deep Yoga School of Healing Arts. She has taught yoga at EF International Language School, Ginseng Yoga, Vara Healing Arts, Generation Yoga and privately. Christine's teaching style is alignment-based with a strong meditation/philosophy-orientation. She will often chant during Savasana and her sequences have a playful quality. She always mixes a little sweat with lots of breath. Her classes are great for beginners and those that are seeking less intensity/low impact.She is the founder of a Facebook forum to connect Filipino-heritage yoga devotees called "PYN-Pilipino Yoga Network". Christine also founded a collaborative called Kapwa Yoga Network, inspired by Philippine psychology and Filipino indigenous wisdom, who work throughout the diaspora to discover their roots as they develop as Filipino/a/x yoga instructors. Christine offers live music for yoga and has been a guest performer at several studios across the country. Her music has also been featured on "Yoga Chat with the Accidental Yogist" and "Sacred Mondays with Mystic Pete". Her 10 1/2 minute song meditation, "Halika Na/She" is available on iTunes.She is also a conscious/new age writer and has been published in LA Yoga Magazine and Namaskar Magazine. You can connect with her through her website, IMDB, Facebook, or Instagram. If you are interested in coaching or consultation, you can contact her via email at kapwayoganetwork@gmail.com.If you feel called to connect further, you can follow us on Instagram at @kapwa.yoga. We also just recently joined Clubhouse and you can connect with us there @kapwakonvos. This podcast is a part of Kapwa Yoga, a movement and mindfulness practice that combines my background in yoga, dance and organizational psychology. You can find out more about our services here. Thank you, Maraming Salamat, and catch you on the next conversation!

Chloe 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 started her professional career with Daloy Dance Company. Currently, Chloe dances with Galaw.Co Dance Theatre. As both an artist and a teacher, her work focuses on moving from a place of love for oneself and for the world.You can connect with Chloe on Instagram at @movewithchloe and @chloemcalcid.If you feel called to connect further, we're hosting an IG Live Aftershow with Chloe this coming Tuesday 7pm EST on @kapwa.yoga. We also just recently joined Clubhouse and you can connect with us there @kapwakonvos. This podcast is a part of Kapwa Yoga, a movement and mindfulness practice that combines my background in yoga, dance and organizational psychology. You can find out more about our services here. Thank you, Maraming Salamat, and catch you on the next conversation!

Ea 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, and is deeply engaged with the spiritual legacies and practices of the filipina shaman-priestess, or babaylan.You can connect with Ea on Instagram at @eatorrado, and learn more about Daloy Movement and When She Comes. If you feel called to connect further, we're hosting an IG Live Aftershow with Ea this coming Monday 8pm EST on @kapwa.yoga. We also just recently joined Clubhouse and you can connect with us there @kapwakonvos. This podcast is a part of Kapwa Yoga, a movement and mindfulness practice that combines my background in yoga, dance and organizational psychology. You can find out more about our services here. Thank you, Maraming Salamat, and catch you on the next conversation!

Tim 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 kinds of people, but has a special soft spot for folks who are absolute beginners. His love languages are: words of affirmation, new music recommendations, and copious amounts of Ben & Jerry’s. You can find him on Instagram at @timlandicho, where he's often offering tips on exercise technique, mindset, and how to incorporate fitness into a busy life.If you feel called to connect further, we're hosting an IG Live Aftershow with Tim this coming Monday 8pm EST on @kapwa.yoga. We also just recently joined Clubhouse and you can connect with us there @kapwakonvos. This podcast is a part of Kapwa Yoga, a movement and mindfulness that combines my background in yoga, dance and organizational psychology. You can find out more about our services at Kapwa.yoga. Thank you, Maraming salamat, and catch you on the next conversation!

We 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!

Paolo 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 breaking bread, we break boundaries. ⁣⁣Connect with him on Instagram @errant_diner, over e-mail (theerrantdiner@gmail.com), or through @hidden_apron. He has over five years of experience in strategic and operational roles in the tech industry and is always open to opportunities at the intersection of food, agriculture, and technology.

Marie 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 heritage versus Western dance technique pose dissonant synchronicities that show up as painfully pleasurable ironies, reflecting both her Filipinx identity and its colonization. Her interests in dancemaking are deeply tied to making sense of Philipine identity within foreign spaces, and how juxtapositions of contemporary and traditional worlds can meet to learn from each other. ⁣⁣Marie’s work has been presented in Israel at Zichri Theater; various theaters such as @dixonplace, @queenstheatre, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Reeds Arboretum, and Smush Gallery in NYC and New Jersey; and commercial work online for most recently EBY and @titovlabel.Marie is offering a weekly movement class called Structure + Integration that explores the different myofascial meridians of our bodies and how they integrate, relate, and respond to each other. You can connect with Marie on IG @mmmlloyd and through her website.