Nine Keys: the art, business, activism, and mystery of death work

Feb 27 2025 38 ep. 47 mins 4

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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. Here, we weave together activism, grief literacy, soft-business structures, decolonized death care, and the deep wisdom of living in death awareness. This is a space for the sacred, the practical, and the revolutionary.

Thank you for listening—welcome to the threshold.

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Crossing the Rickety Bridge: Building the New World with the Great Mother’s Catch

Feb 27 2025 65 mins

Expanding on something said in the previous Nine Keys episode, The Death Worker's Antenna, through storytelling and poetry, Narinder explains the Great Mother's world that is being built through people who listen to her direction. A world where work is balanced with play and rest. Service that comes through devotion to her and not the exploitative ways we are used to working. If yo

Death Worker's Antenna: is it clear or is there static on the line?

Feb 24 2025 30 mins

In this episode for Death Workers, Narinder addresses the importance of having a clear signal to receive the inspiration and guidance for our death work. She's going to ask you, death worker, some really powerful questions that may lead you to more clarity.If you'd like to receive Narinder's support for your death work, spiritually and practically, check out her Study with Narinder

Part Six of The Death Healer's Hexagon: Death Work as a Path of Devotion

Feb 05 2025 25 mins

This episode of Nine Keys is the last episode in a six part series called The Death Healer's Hexagon. If you haven't checked out the previous episodes in this series, you might enjoy going back to part one of the series. Death Work as a Path of Devotion is a topic close to Narinder's heart. Here she is, unscripted, talking about what death work as a path of devotion is, what it req

Part Five of The Death Healer's Hexagon: Death Work as Art Form and Medium

Jan 29 2025 60 mins

From bespoke shrouds, to grief memes, to death art, to conceptual art spaces that double as death education spaces, creativity weaves infinitely through death work.In this episode, Narinder talks with artist and death worker Meghan Johnson about the facet of The Death Healer's Hexagon that is Death Work as Art Form and Medium. Death work and art go together seamlessly. Both artists

Part Four of The Death Healer's Hexagon: Culture Midwifery

Jan 23 2025 84 mins

You're invited to press your ear up against the studio door and listen in on this lyrical conversation between Narinder and her friend and colleague Melissa Word as they sing of the beauty and the hard realness of Death Work as Culture Midwifery. The conversation grows tendrils that touch on our collective grief, our body's intelligence, the power of keeping prosperity flowing in t

Part Three of The Death Healer's Hexagon: Soft-Business

Jan 16 2025 67 mins

This episode is the third episode in a six part series called The Death Healer's Hexagon: the six facets of death work as Narinder Bazen knows it, sees it, and teaches it. In this episode, Narinder is highlighting the facet of the hexagon that is death work as soft-business. Narinder is joined by her friend, death worker colleague, and business inspiration Yarrow Magdalena. Yarrow

Part Two of The Death Healer's Hexagon: Inner-Facing Death Work with Grace Allerdice

Jan 09 2025 48 mins

Death worker, the entire death work movement in hinging on our own inner-facing death work.Inner-facing death work is one of the facets of The Death Healer's Hexagon, and it's a whopper! This piece of our work greatly informs our outer-facing death and all of the facets of our work. In this episode, Narinder dives deeply into our inner-facing death work with her friend and colleagu

Part One of Death Healer's Hexagon: Outer-Facing Death Work

Dec 30 2024 39 mins

In this first episode of the six part series The Death Healer's Hexagon Narinder drops a lot of information about what exactly outer-facing death work is. It's not all the New York Times says it is, it's SO much more! Not only is Narinder giving information, she's giving permission, clarity and invitations in this episode to death workers and death work curious folks. She's al

Craft Your Own Magic with Cassie Uhl

Dec 15 2024 65 mins

In this episode of Nine Keys, Narinder talks with death worker colleague, collective work comrade, and fellow magical being Cassie Uhl about her new book Craft Your Own Magic. This episode is loaded with tenderness, insight and healing.Cassie Uhl (she/her) is a magic practitioner, death and energy worker, rites of passage facilitator, artist, and author. She is the a

An Old Stove and Roses: Symbols in Death Work and Storytelling with Narinder Bazen

Dec 10 2024 44 mins

Pour yourself a cup of tea, get cozy, and listen to this episode of Nine Keys where Narinder shares some of her death midwifery stories. Maybe there's a treasure for you in this storytelling. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.