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Recovering + practicing ancient wisdom at the intersection of embodiment and justice.

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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    We’re asking the wrong questions about whiteness (opens the original)

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    The problem with how we approach whiteness is that we often begin in the present. We look at the patterns we can see now: perfectionism, urgency, disconnection, domination, shame… and ask how we can change them.But only focusing on present behaviours doesn’t create sustainable and lasting change in our people.We need to ask a different question:Where did these patterns come from?Because the present only makes sense when

  2. Issue · Sep 9, 2026

    Whiteness, Belonging, + The Roots of Domination (opens the original)

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    Hello all — I hope September is bringing you a shift in energy and direction in whichever ways are most needed 🌀Every September we run our two-part introductory workshop to Embodied Ancestral Inquiry — if you haven’t join us before, I thought I’d tell you a bit about what to expect since we’re doing it again starting on Friday!The workshop is 8 hours total, split over two sessions. We’ll move between teaching, experiential practice, ritual, somatic demonstration, reflection, and small-group conn

  3. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    Kinship as Embodied Practice: A Dialogue on De-Assimilating from Whiteness (opens the original)

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    “We need to be working at the root. If we are unconsciously being ruddered around by our ancestors and by the patterns that our people have picked up, then the deeper work isn’t gonna happen. And then cultural change isn’t gonna happen.”For our final conversation of the season, I talk with my dear friend and collaborator Stevie Joy Moss. Stevie is a Hakomi practitioner, ritualist, and doctoral student in decolonial depth psychology, and also the co-founder of Embodied Ancestral Inquiry.We speak

  4. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    [Encore] What does Land Back mean? (opens the original)

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    We won’t be sharing a new glossary episode this week, but encourage you to listen to this one on Land Back if you haven’t already. We’ll be back next week with our final episode of the season!This week our glossary entry is on Land Back.Episode 2 of the podcast explores the relationship between cultural reconnection and solidarity activism. We reflect on our relationship with land as both settlers and descendants of land-based traditions that were nearly lost.If you haven’t listened yet to my co

  5. Issue · Aug 18, 2026

    Trusting the Body’s Wisdom as Preparation for the End of the World (opens the original)

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    “One of the main tenets we want to teach people in somatics is to trust the body. And to trust that our whole selves know things that might have been pruned out of us, that might have atrophied, that might have been suppressed.”This week I connect with Diné somatics practitioner Nazbah Tom for a conversation that travels from the body to the land to the end of the world and back.We talk about trusting what’s been conditioned out of us, building relationship with our more-than-human kin, how to p

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