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Becoming EarthWise

17 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -

We weave together a tapestry of "remembering" as we explore Ancestral Perspectives, Ayurveda, Rites of Passage and the intimacy of Nature Connection through storytelling and conversations with Elders and Lineage Holders. Explore Shamanic practices such as Shadow Work, Rites of Passage, Vision Quest, and the ancestral perspectives of being part of the cyclic web of nature.

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Episodes

Re-Indigenizing Our Hearts... De-Colonizing our Mind

September 09, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MB

The Brujeria of Mexico call it the River Beneath the River... The Old Norse call it the Well of Memory... The Navajo call these the Original Instructions given to us by Creator.  We lean into how we can draw from the Indigenous Psychology and restore a more indigenous and Old World way of learning...  An indigenous psychology opens us to a way of listening and tuning in that weaves us back into relationship with the hidden influences of life.  We remember how to be that part of the song tha...

When I Was The Forest

August 26, 2022 14:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB

This episode we lean into the Mystic and Monk Meister Ekhart as he offers a poem that give us clues how to restore our own sense of wholeness and togetherness with the Great Mystery and how we've fallen into amnesia of our own birthright.  We are entering the stories and myths that awaken forgotten knowledge and endangered rememberings.. 

Earth Speech and Breaking Enchantments

August 22, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.72 MB

This is an introduction to our immersive journey shared in the Oral Tradition and facilitated in the traditional ways of connecting into the land the Earth's Dreaming.   We''re breaking the enchantments of colonization and remembering ourselves home.  For more details on this journey which begins Sept 13th 2023,  visit our page.   https://www.treeoftotems.com/copy-of-earth-speech-immersion

Interview with Coyote Medicine Man

August 22, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

This is part of our Wisdom Talk Series where we're restoring the honorary place by the fire for the Elders, Wisdom Keepers and Medicine People. Patrick facilitates Cedar Mountain Drums which he birthed in 1988 after a vision quest. He embodies the archetypal Wisdom Elder, steeped in Native Tradition and heart... He's of the Mingo people in Northeast U.S.    This was a very powerful and inspiring interview and honored to share it with you here. To join us for a live conversation, fire gathe...

Earth Speech Invitation

August 12, 2022 15:00 - 8 minutes - 5.68 MB

This is an invitation and evocation... Our seven month Earth Speech journey of walking a traditional path of stirring the ancestral memories yet held in our bone memory of how to be Indigenous of Earth... to be an extension of nature... part of the Earth's Dreaming and embody a way of life the Navajo call Hozho "To walk in beauty." If you're curious to join us, we begin September 13th, 2022.    Click The Link for Details: https://www.treeoftotems.com/earth-speech-immersion

Restoring an Indigenous Lens

August 10, 2022 14:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB

When we can look at our life path through an indigenous lens, we see our life as a journey of initiation, rites of passage, and discovering hidden gifts.  We break free from the colonized psychology that traps us in a self-depreciating loop that binds.  We're breaking enchantments and reclaiming our life. This is an episode shared in our other podcasts called Medicine Story and felt it relevant for here.

Story of The Half Girl

August 10, 2022 14:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB

Through the Oral Tradition, we share the story of the Half Girl and lean into how we lose parts of ourselves and the mythic path of retrieving our lost parts and becoming whole.  We touch upon the base of Rites of Passage, Initiation and blossoming into the medicine we can then contribute back to the village.  This is an episode from our other podcast called Medicine Story and felt called to share it here with you. 

Story of The Half Girl

August 10, 2022 14:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB

Through the Oral Tradition, we share the story of the Half Girl and lean into how we lose parts of ourselves and the mythic path of retrieving our lost parts and becoming whole.  We touch upon the base of Rites of Passage, Initiation and blossoming into the medicine we can then contribute back to the village.  This is an episode from our other podcast called Medicine Story and felt called to share it here with you. 

Restoring Soul-Speech & The Elder's Teachings

August 10, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MB

This is an episode from our other podcast called Medicine Story where we lean into what called Soul-Speech... our original language that weaves us back into the landscape and how we're being dreamt by the Earth.... It's an ancestral perspective that informs us of the deeper meanings in our life experiences , why we're here, and where we're heading.

Episode 2 Restoring an Earth Psychology

January 09, 2022 19:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB

Here we explore what many indigenous elders share "Seek what we seek but don't mimic our practices."  What is it that they seek?  How do we adopt an Earth Psychology to become receptive to these ancestral teachings?

Introducing Becoming EarthWise

December 06, 2021 13:00 - 11 minutes - 7.7 MB

In this first episode we adopt an ancestral and indigenous lens and explore what does it mean to Become EarthWise and live in sacred Belonging with the cyclic movement of life. We're adopting a mythic lens that draws out the hidden meanings within our Earth Walk. 

Intro to Shamanic Cleanse

January 29, 2020 23:00 - 6 minutes - 4.27 MB

From traditions around the world and across time, the Spring Equinox was a time to cleanse, to gather together, to focus in on the sacred things and align with how we're being invited to be dreamt into the new hoop cycle of the year.  In this short podcast, we reveal what it's all about and why.

Remembering Togetherness

December 16, 2019 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

In this podcast Chivito offers a powerful sharing of significant ancestral perspectives of remembering our togetherness within the great web of life.  We explore the mythic language which spirit and nature speaks with and how we may remember how to be in sacred relationship with the greater web of life that's often invisible because we have forgotten how to see, how to listen, and to receive the stories.  It is said the world is held together by stories and here we explore how to listen int...

How To Harvest Your Shadows Part 2

December 07, 2019 17:00 - 14 minutes - 9.92 MB

In Part 2, we explore the etiquette of going into your shadows, how to give offerings, and enter a more receptive state of receiving all they have to offer you.  Be sure to listen to Part one as it reveals the right mindsets to adopt before entering. OM!

How To Harvest Your Shadows Part 1

December 07, 2019 17:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MB

In part one, we explore how to approach your shadows in a sacred way.  We explore the right mindsets and etiquette of moving through them and beginning to harvest them so they become a profound new textual layer of you.  

Intro To Shadow Work

December 06, 2019 20:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB

This is an introduction to The Dark Descent of Soul and What Shadow work entails. Gather with us at the fire side and through reflective storytelling and deep inquiry we reveal how the story of Persephone, the Queen of The Underworld, may reveal the hidden symbology, stages, and meanings in your own journey.

How To Ask Questions

December 06, 2019 20:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MB

In this episode, we explore an ancestral perspective and cultural mindset of how to ask questions that offers us greater depth, understanding and wisdom. We explore the mind of the Shamanic Scout or Tracker and how they adopt a way of asking questions that can offer us greater incite into our own lives.