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Steph Plant and I chat about grief, collective and individual healing, the power of song, and our call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Listen in for deep wisdom from this musician and Montessori teacher as she reminds of our our true nature and our capacity to live full and beautiful lives. (Photo of Steph by Marie Esara)

Links mentioned in the show:

Groundedhere.com

Jamiewymanband.com

Michellecassandrajohnson.com

Scott Blossom: doctorblossom.com

Native_land.ca

Rebekah Dawn https://www.instagram.com/mulberrymudd/ and https://www.facebook.com/MulberryMudd/ 

Steph Plant on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steph.plant/?hl=en

Steph teaches at Metro East Montessori School: https://metroeastmontessori.com/ 

Steph Plant's Reflection Song on YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Op3nuZR5B3c 

 

QUOTES

“It feels easy to feel discouraged, but the truth is I don’t feel hopeless, because I really do believe [we are] forcing out a very strong light frequency through the darkness.” - Steph Plant

“The desire of my heart is to be able to share a deep hope, a deep peace, and a deep love, that we can embody, and then choose to send and share, and let that fly out to wherever it is that our soul wants to carry it to. I feel very far from the scene geographically, but I feel very close to the scene spiritually and emotionally. My heart is with the Palestinian people. My guts are with the Palestinian people. My cries and my songs are with the Palestinian people." - Steph Plant

"I wish for grace and I wish for mercy and I wish for a ceasefire and I wish for an end to the occupation.” -Steph Plant

“Collectively the more that we can step into our personal power - and our personal love and our personal truth and our personal peace - the less important our fear will be to us and that’s really the only thing we actually have control over - is our own internal experience and how we respond to our external experiences.” - Steph Plant

“Let this grief and this rage radicalize me towards more compassion and courage.” - Roza https://www.instagram.com/yallaroza 

“There is risk, but without doing it you’re risking never having the intimacy that you could have with that community or the power you could feel in actually making a change.” - Andrea Catherine Bachman

 

Today we give reverence for our Indigenous ancestors and sacred traditions. 

We revisit a powerful conversation with our beloved friend and infinite source of inspiration Maria Calderon. Maria is an interdisciplinary folk artist of Peruvian indigenous descent who reminds us of the power of reciprocity and remembering. 

Our conversation is inspired by Maria’s unique life journey and explores the importance of actively honoring our native ancestors. Maria opens up about her family’s experience fleeing from persecution in South America and shares how her ancestry is reflected in her art and reverence for plant dyes and color. She offers us a gracious glimpse into the principles of Ayni, a Quechua concept rooted in reciprocity, which reveals how everything is interconnected. 

We discuss creative process, motherhood, grounding rituals, blood memory, land stewardship, how embracing our different cultural lineages can help depolarize society, the significance of the rainbow in Maria’s work and the healing powers of Mother Nature. 

 

Where to find Maria:

Maria’s IG: @mariacauldron

Maria’s Website: kuychicauldron.com

 

MENTIONED

TED TALK with Nemonte Nenquimo · Indigenous leaderNemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous leader of the Waorani peoples, legendary hunter-harvesters of the south-central Ecuadorian Amazon

 

NATIVE LAND | text your zipcode to +1 (907) 312-5085

https://land.codeforanchorage.org/

Ox-Bow Art Residency

@indigenouspeoplesmovement | indigenouspeoplesmovement.com 

Mercado Sagrado @mercado_sagrado | mercado-sagrado.com

 

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