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
Innate Wisdom and Ancient Tea with Rui Liu
ep. #23
Mallika has a conversation with Rui Liu ("Rae"), CEO and Founder of Grass People Tree, a tea company bringing the story of living tea and the wild, indigenous and ancient tea from her homeland in Southwest China. This deep conversation touches on holistic wellness, personal integrity and the joy of laughing and being together in a simple life.
Topics we touch on:
- Relationship between tea and holistic wellness
- How tea is picked "alive" and "whole", like a human body
- How Rui's sense of home changed when she started Grass People Tree
- Learning to translate and teach something you innately know
- How tea is connecting us to the ancestors with every sip, every leaf
- Bringing tea to London, a place that colonized China, and healing relationship to tea
- The ancestral wisdom that lives in all of us
- The need to balance the intellect with the primal feeling of being a human
- Simplify to come back to our inner wisdom and connection to everything
- Tea being a process to facilitate "getting rid of" the excessing doing in our lives
- The root of helping others is our self-work
- The impact of being fixed on one perception
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