Celebration of Culture: Continue to Stay Curious

For our final episode this season we are joined by Danae, host of the Conscious Communion podcast. Together, we begin to explore what it means to celebrate cultures. In a world that suffers from whitewashing and cultural appropriation, the need to shift into celebrating diversity and our connectedness as stewards of the Earth is essential to humanity. Throughout history we have seen large separations and divisions between groups of people, as well as humans division from the Earth. The opposite of separation is unification! Unification internally, uniting your shadow and light and remembering we are whole, is the first step to accepting the differences externally.

Honor the land you walk on and those who have walked this land before you. We reside on land that is now called Portland, Oregon in Multnomah County. This is the ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Kaulets, bands of Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their homes along the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Thank you for the past, present, and future of your tribes, and we honor and deeply respect all that you are. We invite you to learn about those who tended to your Earth before you, express your own cultures, and share stories that acknowledge each person’s unique contributions.

This division we are currently facing is an opportunity for a new form of unification, a collaboration with the land, and a return to indigenous practices. It's a call to become the living ancestors, creating a future where it's okay to feel okay in our bodies. We carry the energies of our ancestors within us, and by accepting those emotions and reframing our perspective we can help transmute the trauma that came before us, sending a frequency wave of unity and acceptance back to our ancestors and forward to our future generations. Unification within ourselves leads to unification outside ourselves, echoing like a powerful ping in the field that lays the new grid for the future.

Rediscover the power of faith in humanity, as we envision a world with good leaders working together to unify the earth and its inhabitants. When we can use the divide as a catalyst to embody faith and become mirrors for others, we can demonstrate that change begins within oneself. Through storytelling and holding space, we emphasize the respect and love needed to win collectively. Curiosity, exploration, learning from others, and recognizing the underlying thread that connects cultures across the globe will unify us all!

Check out the Conscious Communion podcast as well as Danae’s breathwork offerings by following @the.conscious.communion and @unearthingeve on Instagram.