Wisdom Talk with Delia Spirit Bear

This is part of our Wisdom Talk series where we're restoring the honorary place beside the fire for the Elders, Wisdom Keepers and Medicine People. 

Listen in to a conversation with Patrick Pinson of Cedar Mountain Drums who I consider a Coyote Medicine Man...  Patrick is a special elder in my life who's dedicated his life to birthing Medicine Drums, Rattles and Sacred tools.  He embodies the spirit of the archetypal wisdom elder... a wisdom carrier and shares through the traditional process of birthing medicine drums that leads you to what are called the unteachable learnings. 

This was a very inspiring and powerful conversation. 

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Here we tap into the Oral Tradition of Storytelling where what the old one call the Unteachable Learnings may surface and reveal what's ready for you to receive.

In the story of the Half Girl, we lean into how we lose parts of ourselves and what's a more traditional path of regathering the lost parts of ourselves  and become whole again.

Here we explore what is the ancestral indigenous lens of viewing our lives that reveal the initiatory nature of your unique life path.  We're de-colonizing an dde-christianizing our stories and reclaiming the beauty and magic our life affords us through this indigenous lens.

We're trailing our songlines back home!

Here we lean into how we may tilt our ears to the earth and listen to the old language the Elders, wisdom keepers and ancestors are tuned into... Soul-Speech which restores a Mythic-Indigenous way of being in the world that weaves us back into the deeper meanings of our life and how we're being dreamt into the world.

In Wisdom Talks, we interview elders, wisdom keepers and medicine people and journey with them as we trail their journey through initiation, rites of passage, and maturing in the wisdom they now embody.

In this interview we joined Delia Spirit as journeyed with her on her recent initiation into her Songline where she found her sovereignty and stepped into her Medicine and Truth despite adversaries, uncertainty, losing her father, and having to move across Canada.  

This was a very inspiring conversation.  Enjoy!
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This is part of our Wisdom Talks where we interview an Elder, Wisdom Keeper or Medicine Woman/Man and journey with them in a powerful conversation as we trail their journey through descents, initiations, and life stages of maturing into the Medicine they carry.

In this we explore the archetypes and mythic themes experienced in their storied life as they cycled through the specific stages of the Heroine's Journey

This is a potent share... how to embrace being tender and why it's important we do so.   We see we go through stages of deterioration and self-isolation when we avoid tenderness and vulnerability but when we learn how to embrace it, our tenderness becomes our greatest source of strength, connection and meaning. 

We are each living out a story we call your personal myth but we're also part of a greater story few are paying attention to... understanding where you are within this greater story gives a deeper context to the storied life you're living.  This gives you a greater sense of clarity and meaning as you navigate the terrain life is now presenting you.

Here we explore that invisible threshold we each step through in our life that gives you entrance into your 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond... There's a tradition of harvesting your stories and discovering the one true vow you came here to live.

Here we introduce what is Medicine Story and how by adopting an ancestral and indigenous lens we reclaim our personal sovereignty.  We reveal how the indigenous and mythic lens reveals the deeper meanings in your life experiences and enables you to live your "Medicine."