Episode Summary:
In this deeply grounding and expansive episode of Konscious Educators: The Heart-Centered Classroom, KYDS co-founders Rodney and Mychal are joined by Lisa Brodrick of Ohana Rising, a globally respected educator, yoga teacher, and somatic practitioner whose work bridges education, nervous system regulation, embodiment, and ancestral wisdom.
This conversation is for educators, parents, counselors, healers, coaches, and anyone serving children and communities who feels the weight of today's fast-moving world and is searching for ways to stay human, present, and connected.
Together, they explore how embodiment, presence, and co-regulation are not add-ons to education, but essential FOUNDATIONS. Lisa shares powerful stories from her work in classrooms, healing spaces, and international community settings, including South Africa, where language barriers dissolved through presence, movement, and shared humanity.
The episode dives into:
How educators can remain grounded and regulated in high-stress environments
Why children don't need more fixing; they need safe, embodied adults
The difference between artificial intelligence and ancestral intelligence
How nature, movement, and stillness reconnect us to our inner wisdom
What it means to lead with discernment in the Age of Aquarius
This is not a how-to episode, it's an invitation. An invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and remember that real change happens through presence, relationship, and trust.
Before any lesson plan, policy, or strategy, your energy communicates first. When educators are grounded, regulated, and present, children feel it—and respond to it.
Children don't regulate themselves in isolation. Calm, embodied adults signal safety to the nervous system, making learning, connection, and growth possible.
These tools aren't taught, they're caught. Movement, breath, and awareness help children access their inner resources without needing words or explanations.
You don't need to know your full lineage to access ancestral wisdom. Nature, stillness, and embodied awareness reconnect us to the intelligence already within us.
As technology accelerates, our responsibility is to stay human; modeling self-trust, connection, and conscious choice rather than control or disassociation.
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