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HOMEBOUND PODCASTS

HOMEBOUND PODCASTS

by Archana Gurung

Food Alternative Health

Season 1

Slow food, shared stories and wisdom in everyday meals with Naviya Kafle, Nepal's emerging public health professional and food storyteller

Food is both deeply ordinary and profoundly more than that. It nourishes us, but it has also sustained us as social beings for generations — carrying stories, memories, care, and connection across time. In the sixth — and second last — episode of this season, we sit down with Nepal’s emerging public health professional and food storyteller Naviya Kafle. Together, we explore how cooking and sharing food can become powerful ways of building connection, preserving stories, and keeping traditions alive. We reflect on how our oral traditions continue to shape our relationship with food, and how the meals we return to every day, such as our humble plate of dal-bhat, can nourish us in ways that go far beyond nutrients and ingredients alone. Because perhaps the secret ingredient was never just what we put into our food, but everything we bring to it — memory, care, culture, and connection.

Slow food from the lens of Dharma with Zak Aldridge, Vajrayana practitioner in Nepal

🙏🏽 May all the transgressions we have collectively made as a human race be purified, may we be forgiven and may we all walk the path of wisdom and compassion. 🪔 Join us in the fifth episode of Homebound podcasts with Zak Aldridge, a Vajrayana practitioner and Buddha Dharma scholar who helps us reflect on and deepen our role as humans. From the perspective of Buddha Dharma, he helps us see how our consumption behaviour, our choices, and our way-of-life mainly in relation to food are karmic and circular. Together we reflect on the world as a living spear of seen and unseen forces, together we celebrate life itself, seek forgiveness for the contraventions we have made, and seek support to do better as a race. We invite you into a space of release, reflection, renewal and purification. 🪷 Om Akani Nikani Ambilaya Mandalaya Swaha 🤍

Slow food and public health: Nepal's pioneer public health leader Dr. Aruna Uprety anchors national health strategy in kitchen

Public health begins at home! At 66, Nepal’s pioneer public health expert and healthy eating champion Dr. Aruna Uprety isn’t slowing down, she feels healthier than ever, in her body and spirit—and she credits every bit of it to home-cooked meals. She advocates home-cooking is not only an individual choice but a public health agenda. 🦠 While exploring gut microbiome, gut-mind connection, and dysbiosis, Dr. Uprety reminds us how gut health hack isn’t new but ancestral. In the fourth episode of Homebound Podcasts, we bring you a rich conversation with Dr. Uprety reflecting on ancient solutions to modern-day problems. 🧬 Our kitchens are the gateways to a healthy nation. Her biggest advice to the new generation. 💪🏼 “BANK YOUR HEALTH.”

Slow food and healing from the holistic perspective with Dr. Eric Rosenbush, practitioner and educator of ancient healing sciences of Asia

Tadyathā Oṃ Bhaiṣajye Bhaiṣajye Mahābhaiṣajya-samudgate Svāhā Whoever you are, wherever you may be—may the whisper of this prayer reach you. May you find your path to healing, and may the remedies you seek come gently into your life. As we share the third episode of our podcast series, we hold a deep intention: healing. We offer this conversation as a small vessel of care, connection, and restoration. We are profoundly grateful to dedicate this episode to healing, and to serve—however humbly—as a medium supporting others on their journeys toward wholeness. A few months ago, we recorded this beautiful and expansive dialogue with Dr. Eric Rosenbush—an extraordinary healer, wisdom keeper, and educator of ancient Eastern sciences. In this episode, we explore health through the rich traditions of Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and the Himalayan science of Sowa Rigpa, while Dr. Eric guides us through deeper reflections rooted in dharma, karma, and prakriti. As we speak of food and nourishment, we also open into questions of consciousness, reality, and existence—drawing from the living wisdom of these ancient traditions. If you choose to tune into this conversation, you’ll soon understand why this episode unfolds at a slower, longer pace than usual. We hope it draws you in—and stays with you.

Slow food from de-colonial eyes with Pranathi, an architect turned radical gardener

Have you thought that our kitchens and gardens can be a place of power, and freedom? Decolonisation might sound like a big term but it can start small. We can start right at our kitchen by reclaiming our health and wellbeing. Decolonial might sound like disengagement, but it is anything but disengagement...it's about engagement with the living wisdom of our community and finding interconnection in the web of life. In the second episode of Homebound podcasts season 1, an architect turned radical gardener Pranathi shares about reclaiming health, wellbeing and life in general while leading a slow life. She calls her lifestyle "treading on earth softly". As Pranathi navigates life through grounding and working with earth elements, she keeps busy unlearning and relearning through a plants-eye-perspective. A perspective worth listening to. This episode will bring you up-close with hands-on tips from her kitchen and alternative means of farming.

Slow food from ethnic eyes with Prashant Khanal, author of Timmur the cookbook

Have you thought about how political your plate can be? If farmers are at the centre of our food system, how can we better acknowledge them in our plates? If our farming system is guided by monsoon, how changing climate is disrupting that? And about the imported food culture and how to better replace them with local produce? With Prashant Khanal, we will dive into the politics behind our choice of food and how that relates to sustainable food systems. We have also deeply reflected on our ancestral food heritage that links to seasonality, diversity, locality, respect for nature, and nourishment beyond modern norms. BONUS: An audio brief on how to make your own sourdough bread!!

Teaser: The Slow Food Life

The food on your plate, is it so simple? The first season of Homebound Podcasts focused on the slow food culture. What we have learned along the way while researching and recording for the first season have blown our mind and might just change the way you think of food. Carved with voices of extraordinary wisdom keepers, we have tried to widely cover the slow and subtle aspects of food. But this season is beyond that, you will learn about: 😇 Our physical existence unpacked from the lens of our wisdom traditions. 🥘 Healing through the lens of Ayurveda and Himalayan healing sciences and how food is central to that. 🥗 Food from the sense of politico-economy, our sociocultural, ethnobotanical evolution, etc.🦠 Our gut microbiota, and their role in defining our emotional and physical wellbeing 🪷 Food as a spiritual means for a meaningful existence 🌾 Regenerative and responsible agriculture and how we can consume more sustainably, how can we be creators before consumers? 🍛 And not to mention, kitchen hacks, recipes, comfort food, sourdoughs, fermentation, dal-bhat, kitchen herbalism, and so. much more. Here's a little teaser for Season 1. Stay tuned as we will launch our first episode soon.