The Path of IX - Walking With our Shadow

The journey to healing can be a long one and for those called onto The Medicine Path, those asked to weave their knowledge and experiences to help others, it can be easy to prioritize filling other's cups before your own. This week I’m bringing back one of my most popular episodes with a guest that shows us that the healing journey is one that never ends; one that asks to remain students of life and become our own medicine first. In today's episode, I welcome to the circle healer, badass and amazing human being Ash Bell. Ash is a healer from Melbourne Australia with experience in Tibetan Sound Healing, Reiki, and facilitating Cacao Ceremonies. With a background in Social Work, Ash weaves together these different modalities in order to support people to heal, find their light, lift the soul and stay grounded. Join us for today's episode where Ash shares more about her creation story, how her journey in self healing lead her to helping others, her relationship with ceremonial Cacao, and what being a student in a circle means.

We're exploring:

• Ash's creation story (and how being a cancer survivor has changed her life and practices)
• How her personal healing journey put her on the path to help heal others (and why it's important for healers to fill their cups first)
• The one practice that has helped her deepen her practices
• Ways that Ash is learning to navigate being a star being while having a human experience
• The partnership between Cacao and Sound Healing
• What is means to be a student in a circle
• And so much more!

Find out more about Ash Bell:

Want to work with Ash? Find out more: https://www.ashbell.com.au/

You can always order our Cacao from Ash here: https://www.ashbell.com.au/shop

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashbellofficial/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ashbellofficial

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As we change, grow and evolve, as we walk our medicine path we often encounter the waters of our trauma and grief. Some of these wounds run deep and need more time to heal but we sometimes cannot see the layers necessary for healing. Sometimes we speak from what we think is a fixed wound but what is underneath is still building up. The lesson here is that life is truly a journey of stages and therefore things take time. Recovering from a wound takes time.

Today's plática is one that had been brewing for over six months.The energía that we invite to sit with us in the circle today has many names: awakening, trauma, grief but today we will simply call it a wound.

Join me as we revisit this conversation where we talk about the work necessary to identify and heal our wounds. Tune in as I share a technique woven together in indigenous practice to help you: peel back the layers necessary for healing, stop taking on other people's waters and find a path to YOUR healing.

I'm sharing:

• Why it's important to accept the stages of trauma and grief
• The importance of recognizing that others may be on a different path in their healing journey
• An indigenous diagnostic tool to help you look at your trauma and grief (even when it is overwhelming)
• How to use this tool to identify the layers of your wound (and how this can help you focus on your own healing first)
• Ways that we can learn to approach ourselves and others with mercy, compassion and grace as we walk our healing paths.
• A grounding meditation to help you stop carrying other people's wounds and find the path to your OWN healing

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Courses and Monthly Circles: https://www.thepathofix.com/offerings

Learn more about Cuatro Manos y Cinco Volcanes Farms & our cacao here: https://www.cuatromanosycincovolcanesfarms.com/4manos

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How can we connect to the dead? What lessons can be learned from simply listening to those that have gone before us and the plants and animals that surround us? They all hold so much wisdom, perspective, and lessons that we need to know. In today’s episode I welcome Perdita Finn. She’s an author and a teacher. She’s a visionary. Join us as we take this opportunity to slow down, reset, and dive into the power of the dead. Perdita honors us with her message of mothering, connection, and love. Her words are powerful and you won’t want to miss it.

We’re discussing:

• Perdita’s creation story, the influence of her mother, and when her connection with the dead began
• The lesson on transformation and climate change that Perdita is learning now
• The words Perdita is working to redefine
• Why we don’t have to feel lonely: Perdita’s powerful perspective on being alone
• What Perdita wants you to know most about the dead
• And so much more...

Learn more about Perdita’s courses: https://wayoftherose.org/take-back-the-magic-workshops-with-perdita-finn/

Check out Perdita’s Books:

The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn

The Reluctant Psychic: A Memoir by Susan Saxman with Perdita Finn

Take Back the Magic: Getting to Know the Dead (coming fall 2023)

Other Books Mentioned:

Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death by Bernd Heinrich

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

Become a patron of Walking With our Shadow today. Get access to exclusive content and experiences here: https://www.patreon.com/WalkingWithourShadow

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Courses and Monthly Circles: https://www.thepathofix.com/offerings

Learn more about Cuatro Manos y Cinco Volcanes Farms & our cacao here: https://www.cuatromanosycincovolcanesfarms.com/4manos

Take the FREE Rainbow Warrior quiz here: https://bit.ly/RAINBOWQUIZ

Circle holds everything. It holds differences of opinion and differences of definitions. It holds otherness. But it won’t—and isn’t meant to—save you.

When (generally white) people come to these indigenous circles, in my experience they are wanting to be saved and hoping to be safe. But what are they hoping to be saved from? And what does hope really mean?

Join me in today’s episode as I bring to this circle some interesting conversations that I've had over the past week around this idea to break down what’s REALLY underneath the desire to find safety in indigenous circles, why people look for saviors, and what it ACTUALLY means to be in Circle.

I’m exploring:

• The misguided “great white hope”
• A lesson from the Lakota around hope that might surprise you
• What saving really means
• The #1 thing that I hear people wanting to be saved from
• What indigenous circles really are and are not
• The things you will need to redefine as you enter indigenous circles
• Why you see indigenous circles go to plant and animal kingdoms for inspiration and for healing
• And a silent meditation to help you acknowledge and face yourself—including the parts that you’ve been hiding

If you’ll be in Australia this month (May 2023), I’d love for you to join us for our in-person Ik’ breathwork ceremony: https://www.cuatromanosycincovolcanesfarms.com/event-details/ik-breath-work-ceremony-practicing-liberating-connection-usd

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Courses and Monthly Circles: https://www.thepathofix.com/offerings

Learn more about Cuatro Manos y Cinco Volcanes Farms & our cacao here: https://www.cuatromanosycincovolcanesfarms.com/4manos

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Today, I bring you a conversation where I was interviewed on The Sanctuary, Shamanic Healing Center hosted by Angell Deer, where we went into a deep dive into some of the essence of the medicine path. Beyond and behind the visible or the heart-lifting steps, there are many steps that are much more difficult, heartbreaking, challenging, and humbling.

From the deep daily connection to land, the sacred ancient practice of planting seeds, to the radical responsibility and vulnerability, we can find in this exploration we took together some immense and invaluable nuggets of wisdom.

In this episode, we allowed ourselves the space to become the medicine, and remember our relationship to time, creation, and the cosmos through the Mayan calendar.

We explore fascinating subjects like:

• Building relationships with the invisible world
• Learning authentically from the natural world
• Calling the teacher and what it takes to stay with the teacher
• Radical responsibility and humility
• The power of ancient calendars and their roles in our fate and destiny
• The difficult processes and steps into the Medicine Path
• The stories of cacao, corn & seeds and their role in our sacred work
• The deep teachings of Ancient Cosmology
• And the long process of remembering & forgetting...

Our ancestors and who we are are not only in our dreams or in our remembering but we exist as well in the forgetting. Remembering takes time and vision and so all beings have found an example or a system or an observational language they have to relate to the passing of their journey.

This spark inspired the creation of calendars as they relate to time, cycles, the cosmos, and creation as can be seen in the lineages of the Olmeca, Maya, Zapotec, Aztecs, and many more mesoamerican cultures.

Join us in this exploration, let yourself receive and feel, and let those seeds Marita planted for us grow deep and slow... So you can remember how to forget.

Learn more about Angell and his podcast at https://thesanctuaryny.podbean.com/

And https://www.thesanctuaryheal.com/

Become a patron of Walking With our Shadow today. Get access to exclusive content and experiences here: https://www.patreon.com/WalkingWithourShadow

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Courses and Monthly Circles: https://www.thepathofix.com/offerings

Learn more about Cuatro Manos y Cinco Volcanes Farms & our cacao here: https://www.cuatromanosycincovolcanesfarms.com/4manos

Take the FREE Rainbow Warrior quiz here: https://bit.ly/RAINBOWQUIZ