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A Guide for Ancestor Veneration for Spiritual Practice

By Esoteric Esa — 2021

We’re sharing how ancestor veneration is an extension of altar work and a powerful integration in one’s spiritual practice. We interviewed two experts, Medicine Woman and Reiki Master Melody Garrido, and Curandera Dr. Lisa Martinez, who share their insights on how to get started or further accelerate your ancestor veneration work.

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Resmaa Menakem
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My Grandmother’s Hands

America has been dealing with race issues for a long time. Perhaps making more headway requires a different approach—one that’s less conceptual, more body-focused.

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2017
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Healing Your Thousand-Year-Old Trauma

During the Middle Ages in Europe, torture, mutilation, and other forms of savagery particularly on women were seen as normal aspects of life. Public executions were literally a spectator sport.

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Resmaa Menakem
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Healing Racialized Trauma Begins with Your Body

Resmaaa connects the healing of your body, mind, and soul with the healing of our country and our world.

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Resmaa Menakem
2020
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Resmaa Menakem on Why Healing Racism Begins with the Body

Trauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it.

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Resmaa Menakem
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