How do you connect with the ecosystem around you? Are you valuing others and deepening your human experience of this witnessing? The earth is speaking through us to look inside and to show up constantly in the ecosystem around us and leave it better than we found it. It is time to fuse tradition with what exists today.
“We are the ancestors of this time.” [21:11]
In this episode of the Regenerative Mystic Podcast, I speak with Malika Avani, a creative consultant, documentary film-maker, internationally recognized facilitator of soul songs, and founder of "The Healing Drum.” Malika has been a custodian of the healing drum for 9 years. The healing drum is about coming back to the cyclical body, rhythmic body, and a rhythm that is a lot more regenerative and less into the ways of creating. She teaches people how to own their voices, birth their own soul songs, and come back to the practice of drumming. Malika is also moving into business creative consultancy to support creatives to birth a system that supports them in their creation process.
We talk about the creation of an ecosystem rooted in the crossroad of shamanism and business. Malika explains how she’s living out her ancestors’ lives while still fusing tradition with what exists today and refuting the idea of neo-shamanism. She was taught to show up with grace to the local communities everywhere she goes – to walk with humility in the land of others and bring reciprocity. It is time we stop romanticizing indigenous tribes and allow them to experience the tail end of capitalism if that’s what they desire.
“A lot of people want the wisdom of culture but they don’t want the struggle.” [31:56]
It is important that we investigate the tradition/lineage that we’re practicing, where it comes from, and try not to omit certain things we don’t know how to sit with. We should be vigilant not to bow down to certain structures that no longer serve us. We need to celebrate diversity, to proudly grow things to connect with the earth without trying to take a culture from others.
“Being in a space of leadership is also knowing that you are going be the first one showing up into the room and call out certain energetics.” [48:05]
Listen in to learn the importance of connecting the inner with the outer and learning through the birthing process of your business. You will also learn how you can shift your value system into the profoundness of the in-between spaces of communities.
In This Episode You Will Learn:
[5:47] How to connect and create a relationship with the ecosystem around us.
[14:12] Malika on living like her ancestor plus the rise of neo-shamanism.
[25:36] How to show up with grace, humility, and reciprocity when walking through the land of others.
[30:00] Why we shouldn’t be romanticizing indigenous cultures as outsiders.
[39:00] How to promote diversity by honoring where we come from and celebrating other cultures.
[47:40] The work it takes to birth a business authentic to yourself and the mother.
[1:01:01] Malika on how she’s helping people come back into creating a sacred business with the self.
Resources Mentioned:
Website: http://healingdrum.earth/
