(This episode is offered as a collective imagining and embodiment of better stories we can look to for guidance towards liberation)

How can we collectively pivot away from stories that demand converting or disposal rather than co-holding in community?

In what ways can wounds and embodied practices be portals offering ancestral healing? How can a practice of polyamory be a portal to an animistic practice of opening up to resourcing from energetic sources found in nature? What if every womb-having person could reclaim the “wise power” of menopause as an initiation?

Kristyn with a Why invites her anti-Zionist Jewish friend Anna Shneiderman to share her story in three acts: The Seder, Ancestral Healing, Co-Holding with Nature.

0: Intro to episode

5:00: Introduce Anna

13:20: Act 1- The Seder

23:37: Act 2- Ancestral Healing

42:00: Act 3- Coholding with Nature

1:00:00: Anna’s “Practices to Become Accident Prone”

1:12:00: Outro

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Grateful for all the learning and inspiration alluded to in today’s episode:

blacspace.coop

Wise Power- Menopause as Initiation

Choosing Clean Pain- Resmaa Menakem’s book: My Grandmother’s Hands

Rachel Heron Yoga

Land Acknowledgment Practice- Hayden King

Somatics with the Strozzi Institute

Offers and Needs Market

Carmen Spagnola’s Numinous Network for more on Secure attachment.

Embodied Social Justice with Rev. angel Kyodo williams

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Thankful for the musical inspiration for the theme song:

Hadestown by Anais Mitchell, specifically “Our Lady of the Underground” and Orpheus’ Song

“Hedwig’s Theme” by John Williams

Shout out for the artistic assistance of:

Matt Schubbe (Logo)

Kevin Carlow (Music and sound editing)