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
Creating Wellness in Winter - Ashley and Mallika
ep. #18
Ashely and Mallika explore various pillars of wellness and how to bring them in during the winter months. Winter is not just a time of year where energy disappears, but actually there is a different kind of energy present and available to us.
It's an energy of darkness - not like evil, but like the quiet, underbelly of life, the waters we were born from, the soft, warmth that we all need.
Topics we cover:
- Chinese Medicine's calendar of the seasons
- Lack of relationship between capitalist economy and the need for rest
- Ways to incorporate deepening rest even when we have to keep working full-time
- Myelination of our nerves and our bodies
- Why electronics are worse for us in the winter
- Energy available for slow evening learning of craft activities
- Great time of year to practice meditating, especially if you have a hard time with it normally
- Using the landscape to prompt our psychological processes
- Dream journaling
- Movement practice in the dark
- Foods that nourish and foods that deplete
Ashely's Chinese Medicine teacher Bronwyn Ayla
Jessica Prentice's cookbook Full Moon Feast
Ashley's website
Ashley's Instagram
Ashley's Parent Prayer Circle
Mallika's website
Mallika's Instagram
Mallika's Embodied Therapeutic Art Process