Move meSoma Isles
Release your soul's pent-up steam
In this mini video essay, discover the whispered wisdom of Rotorua's geothermal clefts, whose hidden forces urge us to embrace our inner turmoil as a crucible for transformative creativity.
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Listening with the heart: how the wisdom of plants helps us remember our connection to the divine - Amanda Nicole | S3E8
Amanda Nicole is a liriodendress, a human embodiment of the tulip poplar tree. We discuss her journey of reconnecting with nature, listening to the wisdom of plants, and exploring alternative ways of knowing in her pursuit of heart-centred living.
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Navigating the passing of a loved one with estate planning lawyer and author Robert Kabacy | S2E9
Listen Now Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify About the Episode Key Topics Navigating the dynamics of death, grief and loss, from brain fog to
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“I just need to know them very well”: connecting with young special needs students - Travis Yuan | S1E11
Travis is a special education teacher who trained as an early childhood educator. We talk about building relationships with special needs kids and what Travis learned by migrating from Taiwan to New Zealand.
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"Tell someone who cares": a shout-out to caring people who move within uncaring systems - Danu Poyner | S1E8
In this solo episode, Danu reflects on caring and uncaring teaching, how we live out what the world teaches us and why an ethical imagination is the beating heart of education.
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I moved to the middle of nowhere and found everything I'd been missing - Kathryn Harris | S1E7
Kathryn is a hydrogeologist with a wealth of experience in the private energy sector. We talk about how she fell into hydrogeology and how she combines her love of the environment, adventure, science and emotional connection to make a difference in her community.
🛤️ What the Road Said
A librarian's reading of Cleo Wade's What the Road Said, in which a child meets the road and asks the question at the edge of any beginning: how do you move forward when you don't know the way? The road offers no map — only companionship in motion, and a way of trusting that direction can
Read the note ↗🌳 A Requiem for a Live Oak
Artist Steve Parker's Funeral for a Tree, made after a 65-year-old live oak in his yard died of oak wilt. He cut the trunk into circular slices and turned them into playable records encoded with birdsong from the species that once roosted in its branches — a slow memorial where wood, air a
Read the note ↗⭐ Starling
An ethereal star-spirit journeys back to Istanbul for one final celebration — her birthday, with her grieving family. Tender and imaginative, the animated short follows her through winding streets and unexpected detours, holding a liminal moment between worlds where sorrow and love sit tog
Read the note ↗🏙️ A Megacity Remade by Speed
In his photographs of Chongqing, Ximeng Tu captures both a rapidly changing skyline and the emotional terrain of transformation. Grand infrastructure looms over street vendors and stray stairways; green space yields to grey. In the gaps, he finds people improvising daily life in the midst
Read the note ↗🤍 John Berger on Tenderness
A luminous, slow-burning conversation between John Berger and Michael Silverblatt, ranging from WWI trenches to mountain peasants, marionettes to motorcycles. At its centre is tenderness — considered less as a sentiment than as an act of freedom, a refusal to judge, a way of staying human
Read the note ↗🎶 The Sound of the Uilleann Pipes
Feel the soft, mournful hum of the Irish pipes — quieter and gentler than their better-known Highland cousins — as a series of players bring them to life. Fragments of performance and tradition are intercut to form a conversation with the instrument itself: its history, its design, and the
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