Funny Feelings Podcast

Liza Roeckl, Maria Geyman, Matthias Roeckl•www.funnyfeelingspodcast.com

Funny Feelings is a podcast about the unconventional world of holistic medicine in New York City. Funny Feelings is hosted by Maria Geyman, a millennial, Brooklyn-based, naturopathic doctor and Liza Roeckl, a spiritual healer who has been at the forefront of New York City’s holistic health movement since the 90s, interview healers, artists, and sparkly New Yorkers about their feelings. They try to understand their guests while navigating their own emotions and relationships to topics of sexuality, beauty, and health.

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Episodes

Facial Acupuncture

In this episode of Funny Feelings Podcast focusing on holistic approaches to beauty, Liza and Maria interview Samantha Story who works as a New York City based expert in Classical Chinese Medicine. ‘Working with someone’s face is like working intimately with their spirit’, explains Samantha. During the conversation - Maria receives a Facial Gua Sha an ancient beauty ritual. The practice supports health and glow at the same time and relaxes tension in facial muscles, increases circulation and lym...

Nov 18, 2019•24 min•Ep. 6

A First Line of Defense

Acupuncture as a healing modality can be traced back about 2,000 years and remains a popular form of healing. In this episode of Funny Feelings, Maria and Liza interview Ariel De Leon who owns a community acupuncture center in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Ariel has been part of a movement to make acupuncture accessible to everyone through community acupuncture clinics. She answers questions about healing techniques and about her practice Tigerlily Holistic while performing abdominal acupuncture on Liza. ...

Nov 12, 2019•22 min•Ep. 5

“I Thought Maybe I Couldn’t Do This”

Dico shares his experience as a transgender man in a relationship with a non-binary partner seeking fertility care in New York City. “I have been scared of getting pregnant for the longest time,” says Dico, who leads us through the difficulties of navigating a medical system that is inherently designed for cis, white, heteronormative people. Dico's experiences with doctors at fertility clinics have been unpleasant and emotionally painful: ‘‘I walked out of there just feeling so embarrassed and h...

Oct 27, 2019•26 min•Ep. 4

In Bed with Lena Dunham

In Episode 3 Maria and Liza surprise Lena with a treatment – a vaginal steam – that takes place during the interview. "It’s interesting to have a positive sensation in a part of your body that's not sexual,” says Lena about her first vaginal steam experience. Recorded in the comfort of her bed, the filmmaker discusses living with chronic pain and the support of her parents during her healing journey. This episode is very personal; Lena opens up about her surgeries. After her hysterectomy, her do...

Oct 20, 2019•39 min•Ep. 3

Funny Feelings: Sexuality In Front Of The Camera

Actress Emily Meade from the HBO show, The Deuce, speaks with Liza and Maria about how intimacy and sexuality has been a challenging issue in her life as an actress. After she requested help and support for intimate scenes HBO provided a sensitivity coach who works as an expert when sexuality is involved on sets. In Funny Feelings she talks about bravery but also the shame she felt while speaking up for herself and her fellow actors. After three seasons on The Deuce, Emily feels like her life ch...

Oct 13, 2019•30 min•Ep. 2

Mushrooms At The Shore -

In Episode 1 - Maria and Liza talk about Funny Feelings that involve Mother - Daughter Relationships. Joining in the studio is Rivka Rivera and Amy Berkman who share a unusual mother - daughter relationship. They live together in a Brownstone in Brooklyn and have created a a documentary that tells their story of doing psilocybin mushrooms together at the Jersey Shore. Funny Feelings is a podcast about the unconventional world of holistic medicine in New York City. Funny Feelings is hosted by Mar...

Oct 03, 2019•36 min•Ep. 1

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