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
Buen Vivir and Proposals on Decolonizing Wellness with Tania, David, Lorena
ep. #21
In todays episode, Ashley interviews Tania Laisuna, David Coral, and Lorena Rodriguez.
Tania and David call in from the Putumayo region of Columbia where they live, and work on a community project that fosters the continuation of ancestral knowledge and the transition to a more sustainable way of living.
They weave an exploration of "buen vivir", an indigenous concept from South America that expands colonized perspective of wellness.
This episode of full of beauty and life! We hope you enjoy :)
This episode includes full translation in Spanish and English!
¡Este episodio incluye traducción completa en español e inglés!
Topics we touch on:
- Broadening our understanding of wellness to include cycles of the earth and ethical codes of community and relationship to ecosystem.
- This concept of wellness, or buen vivre, as intrinsically related to our contact with all living beings
- Morning practice of greeting yourself
- The interrelationship between how inner waters and outer waters
- History as a living thing
- True wellness integrates history of place and of people
- Giving back to the people are were mistreated and harmed is part of wellness
- Building relationships to native plants as a pathway to reconnection
- Building relationships with the indigenous people and stories where plants medicines originate.
- Sacred medicines like tobacco, chicha, cocoa, alcohol
- Circling as a process for inquiry and as a way to build relationships with medicine
- The continued effort it takes to heal and create wellness.
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