Nine Keys & Co: the art, soft-business, activism, and mystery of death work
Formerly known as Vulture Culture, this podcast is landing with full-hearted clarity as host Narinder Bazen refines her vision. Nine Keys is an exploration of death midwifery as an art form, a calling seen through the mystic’s soul-eyes, and a force for collective healing.
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Happy Eyes With Sad Tears and Audrey Hepburn - with Somatic Sam (opens the original)
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Somatics Sam is back on the Nine Keys & Co. podcast for a conversation about our capacity to hold seemingly contradictory emotions at once. Inspired by Audrey Hepburn’s unforgettable final scene in Roman Holiday , we wonder: Can grief witness a beautiful memory without taking full custody of it? Can happiness remain happiness, even when it’s over? And what becomes possible in our world when we become able to hold great joy and feel safe doing so? A conversation about ecstatic love, nervous syste
The *Good Girl Followed Us Into Death Work 🔥 — with Grace Allerdice (opens the original)
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What if being good is costing you your life? What if the Good Girl is quietly suffocating your death work, your service work, your healing work? In this episode of Nine Keys & Co., Narinder sits down with erotic healer, teacher, and Erotic Devotion podcast host Grace Allerdice to talk about the Good Girl: the part of us trained to please, perform, sacrifice, and suffer, to prove that we are doing life correctly. - and she is alive and well in care work. What if your care work isn't here to save
Pronatalism, Death Work, Filmmaking & a Voyage to Find the Ancient Sheela-na-gigs — with Lindsay Bane (opens the original)
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Artist, university film educator, and Nine Keys death work alum Lindsay Bane joins Narinder for a conversation about childlessness not by choice, pronatalism, and death work. They talk about Lindsay’s extraordinary story of loss and reinvention, the cultural systems that value motherhood above lives without children, and her pilgrimage through Ireland in search of ancient Sheela-na-gigs. To listen to Narinder's Childless Not by Choice story on Lindsay's podcast go here: "Do You Have Kids? Short
Death Work Has Coordinates: A Conversation with Soul Mapper Nova Campbell (opens the original)
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What if oncology, hospice, and astrocartography aren’t such different kinds of work after all? Nine Keys alum Nova Campbell joins the podcast for a conversation about the unexpected path their death work has taken, from working as an oncology nurse, to hospice care, to helping people understand their relationship to place through astrocartography. We talk about the body as an instrument of knowing, what happens when we become quiet enough to hear our own yes and no, our longing to reconnect with
Grief, Slugs & Death Work Arts - A conversation with Owen Lytle (opens the original)
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Artist and death worker Owen Lytle joins Nine Keys & Co. for a conversation about grief, death work arts, and the unexpected places they intersect, from ceramic slugs and online grief galleries to chronic illness and accessibility. We talk about how whimsy and sorrow can live side by side, how creativity can slip past our defenses, and why our truest expression might be our unique medicine for the world. Owen is a disabled trans artist based in Philadelphia who creates ceramics, digital art, sto
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