Moshing Your Demons: Bringing Back Friction, and Cuban Mysticism w/ Mango Kat Hernandez
Somatic catharsis, grief, and why we desperately need rites of passage again. This week I'm talking with my dear friend Kat Hernandez, aka Mango Lynx, creator of Soft Mosh, a monthly moshing practice and movement research lab in a church in Ridgewood, for "sensitive creatures with big feelings." Two weeks after losing my mom, I played a loud, amp-cranked Kitty Crimes set at Mango's workshop entitled Soft Mosh. Playing rock music gave me a release I wasn't expecting. We talk about how frictionless, sterile culture is killing touch and connection, and why wellness culture's "be at capacity before you connect" falls apart when we're all chronically under capacity. That's the gag. We cover rites of passage, including the ones men don't get, and why community means staying in the hard shit together. Mango shares how their magic grew out of Cuban culture, Catholicism, aunts in Santería, and leading mass as a kid with "el don." We talk about mystics making peace with Christianity, seeing versus feeling entities, and why the body works like a radio station you have to dial in. Recorded on the NYC waterfront after a ferry ride, on a boat literally named Ferry Godmother. In this episode: What Soft Mosh is and who it's for: Grief, expression, intense movement, and cathartic release through the body Frictionless culture and the erosion of touch "We're never really at capacity, so how do we stay in it together?" Rites of passage into selfhood, community, and manhood Cuban spirituality, Catholicism, Santería, and el don Mystics and the esoteric roots of Christianity Psychic abilities, seeing entities, and fine tuning your nervous system through How To Actually Relax The body as a radio station: alignment, capacity, and receiving Find Mango: Instagram @mangokat__ · [email protected]. Reach out to Mango first before showing up to Soft Mosh. The practice centers queer, BIPOC, and femme bodies. Follow Dom Your Demons so you never miss an episode, and leave 5 stars if this fuuuuuuucked. Keywords: somatic healing, catharsis, grief, shadow work, mysticism, rites of passage, embodiment, mosh pit, movement practice, Santería, Christian mysticism, psychic abilities, intuition, nervous system regulation, queer spirituality, millenials are soft, cuban mysticism,
