Episodes

  • Maggie Gilewicz | The Never Ending, Unfolding Journey

    Maggie Gilewicz | The Never Ending, Unfolding Journey
    May 22 2024

    Thank you for listening - let us know what your thoughts and insights are in the comments below!

    You can learn more about Maggie's work at: https://www.drmaggieg.com/

    and you can watch more videos with Maggie at her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzm7n6zuQniV6s0JwvGnDNw
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    2 hrs and 16 mins
  • Dr. Jacqui Wilkins | Listening to Calls from The Land

    Dr. Jacqui Wilkins | Listening to Calls from The Land
    Mar 9 2024

    This conversation with Dr. Jacqui flowed so beautifully - I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did! Please leave us a comment/review to let us know what your reflections and takeaways were - I would love to hear from you!

    You can find more about Dr. Jacqui's work at: https://www.xalishmedicines.com/

    IG: amongthewildflowers, xalish medicines

    More background from Dr. Jacqui's website:

    "I’m Dr. Jacqui, ND a Naturopathic Doctor and Plant Medicine person with a passion for supporting folks in connecting with their Medicine, Ancestors, the Land & Stars for deep healing. Rekindling this remembrance you have deep in your Bones of who you are.

    Helping remember this belonging, and the depth of your gifts being needed here at this time. You, in joy, in your medicine & your most aligned self, are vital to the times we are in. The teachings I share are rooted in traditional knowledge, direct communication with the Plants, dreamwork, as well as Naturopathic Doctorate and clinical experience.

    Walking in my Ancestor's footsteps, a conduit between the Earth & the Stars. Bringing forth Medicine, teachings & love for healing, reclaiming & remembering.

    Join me in (re)membering your connection to the Plants, the Land, Water, and all of our relatives. Reclaiming your Medicine, gifts & responsibilities. Deep gratitude. May the Medicines we seek always find their way. The Land loves you back, Fam."
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Rashid Hughes | Embodiment and Nonduality

    Rashid Hughes | Embodiment and Nonduality
    Sep 10 2023

    In this episode, Rashid and I dive into a conversation about our explorations in embodiment and nonduality - let us know what resonates for you by commenting below! 

    We're just starting to post videos on YouTube but we have plenty of other episodes to listen to! Check out previous podcast episodes on Spotify and Apple Podcasts - you can find links to listen at www.sarahwalkerting.com. 

    You can connect more with Rashid at www.rashidhughes.com and @justbeandbreathe on IG. Rashid Hughes seeks to bridge the worlds of contemplative practice and collective care. He is a proud graduate of the Howard University Department of Music and the Howard University School of Divinity. Rashid is a certified Mindfulness Teacher, a certified Yoga Instructor, a Restorative Justice Facilitator, and currently in training to become a Fire Pujari. All of Rashid’s perspectives flow from the two wisdom traditions of contemplative and restorative practices. In 2019, Rashid co-founded the Heart Refuge Mindfulness Community, a community in Washington, DC that inspires Black, Indigneous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to live with love and courage in the face of systemic inequities and ongoing racial-violence. Out of his unwavering love for community care and healing, Rashid facilitates weekly mindfulness sessions to support BIPOC in living with joy, while also understanding and resolving the impact of trauma on their bodies and lives. Due to his interest in challenging the ideas and systems that uphold a culture of patriarchy today, he also facilitates mindfulness sessions for BIPOC masculine & male identifying people who are particularly committed to addressing issues of masculinity and the culture of patriarchy. As a Restorative Justice Facilitator, Rashid holds the title of Restorative Justice Program Specialist at the non-profit SchoolTalk Inc. in Washington, DC. In that role, he collaborates with DC schools to create restorative spaces for youth to envision healing-centered approaches to school discipline, accountability and community building. When school classrooms went virtual in 2020, Rashid launched SchoolTalk’s Our School Our Voice initiative, a citywide collaboration between SchoolTalk and four schools in the District of Columbia. Our School Our Voice is student-designed, student-led, and rooted in Rashid’s vision of creating peer groups for students to engage with other students from different communities and elevate their voices. In 2020, during the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, Rashid created a contemplative practice, R.E.S.T.-A Practice for the Tired & Weary, to provide practical means for people to find clarity and confidence in the midst of such devastating and uncertain times. In 2021, Rashid expanded the R.E.S.T. practice into a 5-Week Online Course & Practice Group. In collaboration with the Garrison Institute’s Fellowship Forum, Rashid joined Dr. Angel Acosta in conversation around the intersections of the R.E.S.T. practice, liberation and contemplative practice with a particular focus on how this practice is an antidote to the systems of capitalism and white supremacy. Rashid’s writings have been published by Mindful Magazine, Lion’s Roar Magazine, and his first peer reviewed essay on R.E.S.T. was featured in the Journal for Contemplative Inquiry's volume, Transcendent Wisdom and Transformative Action: Reflections from Black Contemplatives, a “special edition focusing on the insights and wisdom of Black contemplative practitioners, researchers, scholars, educators and artists. Today, Rashid is devoting his time to a new interest, exploring the role of ceremony and contemplative practice in creating the conditions for a more just and caring world.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Lucy Grace | Awakening to the Grace of Nature

    Lucy Grace | Awakening to the Grace of Nature
    Aug 3 2023
    In this episode, Lucy Grace and I dive into a beautiful conversation that goes into our direct experiences of awakening to the grace of nature and embodiment - Lucy shares her insights, her heart-centered poetry, and parts of her story she hasn't shared anywhere else yet!Tune in and let us know what resonates for you! Comment below, contact us, and listen to more episodes at https://www.sarahwalkerting.com/. You can pre-order Lucy's book This Untameable Light and contact her via her website https://lucy-grace.com/. Lucy was raised in a low socioeconomic household and neighborhood, by a young single mother in New Zealand in the early 1980s. The lack of resources available in childhood resulted in a shrinking of her outer world to what she thought of – years later – as a kind of welfare-child ashram. Within the home, and outside of it, there were few distractions or ability to go anywhere else, and significant trauma – all forcing her to go within to what she thought of as “the deep stillness and light inside” to rest, find nourishment, solace, and strength. At 19 she experienced her first shift, seeing through the personality, and subtle perceptions revealing themselves. She never thought much of it, there had already been so much light inside, and she was so thrilled to be in the world finally so she simply went on with living. After a brief stint in television journalism, Lucy spent 15 years in Europe and New Zealand working for international humanitarian aid agencies. On return to NZ at age 31, she suddenly became extremely ill. For six months, she was mostly bedridden. Doctors, both natural and traditional, could not find the source of the illness. Over the next few years, she had to work to earn an income but there was no strength for much else. The pain in her body was ever-present, and the fear of not knowing if this was her life forever now, was sometimes crippling. She was forced to exist in a kind of in-between world again – of much aloneness and silence, aside from work. After a few years of significant illness, she recovered strength enough to live a semi-normal life. But any time she tried to do too much, she was knocked back into illness. By 35 she was in a leadership role at a non-profit, married, with a baby on the way, just surviving day-to-day with the pressure on her physical body. On becoming a mother, she was plunged into a level of blackness that was completely shocking and previously unknown. For more than two years she descended into complete separation and couldn’t hear the guidance that had always accompanied her in her life. For the first time ever she couldn’t feel God. In 2018, after more than two years of immense struggle, an unexplainable and absolute surrender took place within, in a moment, as her two-year-old cried and reached for her. Within two months she had left the career she loved to rest in what she thought of as silence. For around a year and a half, she couldn’t do much else. Lucy had never been exposed to spirituality, nor did she know anything about its concepts or traditions. She thought meditation was for “those hippy people.” Because there had been no conscious spiritual search, she had no context for what was happening. Often it was so beautiful and joyful – she didn’t need to know. There was an innate sense of trust and recognition that went beyond what needed to be seen or understood with the mind. When the need to understand did arise – some online searches helped a little, but often it all felt overwhelming, and she preferred sitting in silence to hear from within. Guidance and teaching were always present and given through hearing and images. Despite this, when particularly strange things would occur the need for the mind to understand would return. One night in 2019, before sleep, in heartfelt prayer she asked for help to cut through all the online noise and finally really grasp what was going on. There was a felt sense of need for community. As she was awakening in the morning, she heard the words “Buddha at the Gas Pump”. Lucy says, “I was stumped. I had no idea what that meant, but Googled it and found BatGap. As a result, my life has changed. Over the years BatGap has supported me deeply in the process – nurturing trust and allowing everything to unfold as it wants to.” From then until now, Lucy has been called over and over into deeper surrender. She has had further shifts and many clearings. Her career of 15 years, husband/partner of 16 years, many friends, and her home – all things she loved dearly – have fallen away. She has never had a teacher and has read very little. She makes no claim to know anything. It seems to her that there is nothing to know, or that can be known. There is no one way and no right way. There is only your way, to be honoured and cherished and fallen into more and more deeply in every breath.
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    2 hrs and 4 mins
  • Life as Ceremony, with Carolina

    Life as Ceremony, with Carolina
    Jun 16 2023

    Raised by her grandmother in the mountains of Costa Rica, Carolina learned ancestral ways of healing from birth and gained insight into earth-based medicine. Her grandmother, Mamá, treated people for various ailments and set her on the path to bring healing to others. Though she doesn't heal the same way as her ancestors did, she sings to people's souls with the same compassion. 

    Carolina has studied indigenous bodywork, hands-on energy work, Tibetan Singing Bowl Therapy, and Hatha yoga, among other methods. After studying Music Therapy Techniques for Wellness at Berklee College of Music, she pursued Existential Wellbeing Counselling at the University of Leuven. She felt more confident in embracing her ancestral roots and incorporating the healing sounds she learned as a child. She aims to share the positive impact of sound healing and earth-based practices on the human body, including remapping brain pathways. She has been initiated in a Sacred Fire Ceremony as a Cacao ceremonialist, following the Maya Tradition and Cosmology, by Fire Shamans Tata Izaias Mendoza and Nana Izabel Pérez. She is also a carrier of the sacred fire of the Popochcomitl, bestowed upon her by Grandmother Ximena Vera Teototoltzin. She holds the sacred responsibility of channeling spiritual healing and honoring the rich lineage of The Q'ero of the High Andes of Peru.

     

    Connect with Carolina at www.luminousfive.com and on instagram @ luminousfive

     

    Connect with the host, Sarah Walker Ting's work at www.sarahwalkerting.com and on instagram @sarahwalkerting

     

    Love,

    Sarah
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Nurturing Life and Rooting Deeper, with Nic

    Nurturing Life and Rooting Deeper, with Nic
    Apr 18 2023

    This conversation with Nic is filled with flow and resonance - we dive into the power and potency of presence, ease, trust, simplicity, honoring nature's cycles, embodying the medicine, and rooting deeper. 

     

    Nic is a humbled mother, a sacred space holder and circle keeper, a community builder, an embodied healing guide, a passionate creatress and a forever mystic. A matriarch, cycle breaker, storyteller, record keeper, and medicine carrier of her lineages; her paternal lineage of Germanic Europe, and her maternal lineage of the Ilocos Region, Central Luzon and Western Visayas of the Islands known as the Philippines. And above all, Nic is a nurturer.

     

    She currently resides with her partner and children among the majestic mountains, great Red Cedars and ancient Fern of S'ólh Téméxw, so-called Chilliwack, the spiritual realm and ancestral lands of the The Stó:lō “People of the River”

     

    There she has built a sacred healing portal and ceremonial gathering space rooted in reverence and remembrance, known as THE NURTURE SPACE, a space where community could gather in shared resources, gifts, services, medicine, art, culture, traditions, celebration and more.

     

    With unwavering devotion to her loved ones, her ancestors and guides of the highest order, the beloved land, the eternal Spirit that animates us all and this sacred life - Nic serves the greater good by supporting others in nurturing their True Nature and communing with life, as ceremony.

     

    Connect with Nic on IG:

    @nurturewithnic

    @thenurturespace_

     

    Connect more with Sarah:

    IG @sarahwalkerting

    www.sarahwalkerting.com

     

    Thank you for listening. We would love to hear from you, please review and/or write in and let us know what resonated for you on IG @thepathisthepurpose!
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • The Body Can't Be Bypassed, with Raphaelle Lazarre

    The Body Can't Be Bypassed, with Raphaelle Lazarre
    Apr 13 2023

    I'm so excited to share today's beautiful conversation with Raphaelle Lazarre - Raphaelle and I dive deep into our stories of reconnecting with our bodies, reclaiming our relationships to nature and our ancestral lineages, movement and nervous system practices, and so much more! 

    Tune in and let us know what resonated for you :)

    More on Raphaelle: Raphaelle is a student of life and practitioner of the transformative arts. She is committed to walking a path of authenticity and is dedicated to seeking and practicing tools that support confronting the inevitable roadblocks to arise on a journey of becoming and evolution. Inspired by nature, story, lineage, and creative expression, they aim to weave these subjects together in honor of those who have contributed to her unfolding. Raphaelle is a certified Transformative Energy Work practitioner and offers 1:1 sessions to folks seeking support in connecting to their own authentic energies. You can follow them on Instagram and YouTube @thebodyisacompass and explore their services at calendly.com/thebodyisacompass

     

    And to connect with Sarah Walker Ting and her offerings, go to:

    www.sarahwalkerting.com

    IG @sarahwalketing

     

    Thank you for listening!
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Tending to our self and each other, with Sammy Jade

    Tending to our self and each other, with Sammy Jade
    Jan 11 2023

    Enjoy this heartfelt conversation with Sammy Jade where we talk about finding our unique voice and truth, self love and care, holding emotions with compassion, our deep connections to mother earth and nature.

     

    Sammy Jade is a mother of three who practices mindfulness, guided by and a co-creator of conscious evolution.  She is a reiki practitioner, clairvoyant, weaver and educator.  She uses plant medicines, crystals and fibers in her daily healing practices and sessions. Through her guides and ancestors from the highest good, she supports individuals in reconnecting with their inner-voice, their unique gifts and innate abilities to heal themselves.  Her intention is to facilitate deep healing of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body.  She holds space for deep listening, allowing for safe journeying and gentle releasing of what is no longer needed in one’s mind, body and energetic field. Her direct lineages are mostly from Ilocandia, the traditional homeland of the Ilocanos, Philippines. She was born and raised on the traditional territory of the Mississauga’s of the New Credit, Tkaronto, the Greater Toronto area. Today, she resides on the unceded territory of the Sinixt, Ktunaxa and Syilx nations, surrounded by the sacred mountains of what is known as Nelson, British-Columbia.

     

    She offers one-on-one distance healing & readings, past life readings, sacral chakra/womb healing, ceremony/circles, group programs & workshops. You can read more about her offerings at: https://www.sammyjade.ca/ and @withallofmysenses on Instagram.

     

    I would love to hear from you! You can send me a message at www.sarahwalkerting.com, and my offerings are there as well.

     

    Love,

    Sarah
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    1 hr and 12 mins