The Medicine Path and Protecting Lineage with Rachael Hägglund

Rachael Hägglund, a medicine woman who specializes in supporting pregnant and new parents through healing ceremony, shares the transformative power of her personal motherhood rite-of-passage and how she became a protector of lineage. She shares the importance of discerning cultural theft in the wellness industry, and through doing so, reclaiming our birthright of belonging in the natural world. 

Our conversation explores: 

how matrescence, the transition into mothering, transformed her life and workwhy her children are her greatest healers and teachers, and why she doesn't identify as a motherhow each of her births and perinatal periods opened her to greater consciousness and healing capacitieswhy she became such a fierce defender of lineage after losing her own, andthe necessity of reckoning with your ancestors to establish relationship with ancestors of landresponsible ways to seek wisdom from outside lineages with discernmentwhat happens to medicine when it's whitewashed through cultural appropriationour responsibility as practitioners and as seekers (and both) to challenge the status quo of commodification of the sacredhow to be in discernment by looking at a practitioners relationship with the medicinehealing intergenerational trauma by challenging entitlement to what we "want" in healingunlearning we can own teachings, lineage, the world and moving towards a grounded relationship with lineagehow Rachael works with clients to come into communication with their ancestors and the spirits of  Natureleaving a family legacy of rich connection with ourselves as Nature, reclaiming our birthright of belonging in the natural world 

Rachael is a medicine woman upholding and protecting sacred lineages and healing traditions. She is a Mesa Carrier and has been initiated into the lineage of the Q'ero Paqo and shaman Don Alejandro Apaza. Her introduction to the healing arts began as a child when her family lived at the Satchidananda Ashram where she was given the name Rashmi, which means Divine Light, by Swami Satchidananda. As a teenager, she trained as a yoga instructor with Vimala Fields and later in her twenties, she served as a birth doula. She claims her place as a birth keeper in the community, protecting the sacred rite for families through supporting pregnant and new parents in her healing practice. Her work weaves her own intuitive wisdom and the earth-based teachings of the Q’ero to create offerings that are rich in womb healing, ancestral mending and healing through reconnecting to the rhythms of nature. She also loves self-studying herbalism and wild crafting plant remedies. Rachael is the mother of two children and along with her husband, Mattias, loves parenting from the heart and supporting their children's rich connection with Mother Nature. Her own births were wild initiations and she views her children as her greatest healers and teachers. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University.


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