The Wild and Wise
A series of conversations dedicated to the process of creating wellness, within ourselves and in our communities, in this time of deep transformation. We explore processes, practices, and ideas that resource our personal healing and illuminate the interplay between personal and collective liberation. Ashley and Mallika dive deep into these topics, together and with powerful healers, thinkers and change-makers, giving you a variety of ways to deepen your own connection to yourself and those around you. Ashley is Somatic Movement Therapist and ceremonialist dedicated to tending children, body, land, and spirit. Mallika is a licensed marriage and family therapist committed to creating containers that weave together spiritual and relational healing. In this show, you will learn pathways to healing so that you can awaken the wild and wise parts of yourself and grow your capacity to live a connected, sovereign, and creative life, in right relationship with all beings. Hit subscribe and get ready to come alive in ways you’ve always wanted.
The Wild and Wise
Death, Ancestors and Relational Liberation with John Wolfstone
ep. #16
John and Ashley recorded an emergent conversation for today's podcast episode. The conversation is packed with so much wisdom while still retaining a flow and easeful aliveness. There are SO many amazing quotable nuggets in this one.
John Wolfstone is a storyteller, filmmaker, community organizer and a mentor for Rites of Passage work. John is a curious explorer and question asker.
Here are some of the questions I (Mallika) hear being held in this conversation and the work that John is doing In the world:
How do we do the work, the healing and rebuilding, that is here for us to do in this lifetime, and not get swept away into the anxiety of wanting to also see the results of the work right now?
How can we move to the next stage of development from the adolescent type of maturity associated with the hyper-Individualism and our current definition of freedom?
How can we actually find more freedom in "staying put" than in the flight of travel, or new relationships or careers?
Topics we cover:
The missing relationship with death
What is Eros and how to connect with it
What does it mean to rest
Reclamation of our aliveness
Rite of passage/ quest for Initiation
Hyper-Individualism
Relationship with place
Polyamory and staying with one partner
Loyalty and integrity
Tamera Peace Research Center In Portugal
When healed people start a community
Healing self In relation to birth family
Ancestor relationships bring down anxiety
Recommendations for building relationship with ancestors
Childhood trauma living in the lineage
Wounds are the sacred cut Into the gift
John's website: www.johnwolfstone.com
Ashley's website
Ashley's Instagram
Ashley's Parent Prayer Circle
Mallika's website
Mallika's Instagram
Mallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art Process