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Root + RiseEpisode 13: The Somatics of Holding the Tension of Opposites – And Why Our Evolution Depends On ItHolding the tension of opposites and calling forth the transcendent function, as coined by C G Jung, are core principles of healing and integration. Drawing on the somatics of this traditionally psychological process, this conversation moves beyond concepts into the direct, somatic experience of holding polarity – conscious and unconscious, good and bad, ego and Self. In these times of extreme polarization, this episode invites a radical reorientation: away from projection and pathology, and towards inner responsibility, shadow integration, and the emergence of a third way. Includes a short, guided Somatic Experiencing practice (timestamp 26:28) to experientially explore holding opp...
2026-02-0840 minRoot + RiseEpisode 12: 2026 – The Year of Embodied ImaginationAs we arrive at the end of 2025, this episode of Root + Rise is an invitation to take stock of all that this year has asked of us – personally, collectively.I reflect on 2025 – the year of the Wood Snake in the Chinese calendar – as a year of profound shedding, completion and a time when old systems, identities, and ways of being have been chiselled away to reveal something more essential beneath.Moving from personal reflection into the wider collective field, this episode explores what it means to stand at the threshold of a new cycle. I speak...
2025-12-2938 minRoot + RiseEpisode 11: Decolonize Your Manifesation PracticeThis episode is an exploration of manifestation through a decolonial, Nature-aligned, trauma-informed lens. Moving beyond the hyper-individualistic, transactional narrative, this is a call towards a more relational understanding of co-creation – one rooted in ecosomatics, nervous system capacity, embodiment, and interdependence with the more-than-human world.I talk about why we don’t create from thoughts alone, how unprocessed trauma and stress can influence what we’re able to call in, and how bypassing, toxic positivity, and formulaic manifestation practices can reinforce a culture of pathology. This is about manifestation as a crucible for integration, evolution, and becoming – not performi...
2025-12-2129 minRoot + RiseEpisode 10: The Curious Paradox of What We Really AreIn this 10th episode of Root + Rise, we wander through some of my favorite terriain: the dance of opposites, the numinous space of both/and, and the wildly generative consciousness that lives at the Zero Point Field ~ the realm of The Fool, Beginner’s Mind, and radically creative evolution.Join me as we explore:The archetype of The Fool and the number 0 ~ the cosmic reset, the soul’s new cycle, and the curiosity that unfurls new worlds.The Zero Point Field in physics and mysticism ~ the alive, luminous space of infinite potential that’s also...
2025-11-3049 minRoot + RiseEpisode 9: Reclaim Your Superpower of NeuroceptionJoin Rohini for this exploration of neuroception — the nervous system's instinctive, pre-verbal sense of safety and truth that lives beneath conscious awareness.This conversation invites you into deeper attunement with your nervous system's wild, holistic intelligence, which is also the physiological root of intuition. We dive into how trauma, including the traumas of our dominant culture, debilitate this spidey sense superpower of neuroception.Through vignettes from Rohini's home in the Mojave high desert, reflections on rewilding and decolonizing our sensory awareness, and an invitation to embody and live from your system's deeper knowing, Rohini guides you...
2025-11-0831 min
Crying in My Jacuzzi with Dana BalickiPostcolonial JittersWhat happens when you no longer want the dream you worked for (capitalism anyone, lol)? When the worked-so-hard-for-thing stops singing back? And can we make the trade for something riskier and more honest—prioritizing resonance over metrics and presence over pace? In this ep, we dare to embrace changes not as failures, but as craft, maturity, and a detangling (rebellion as practice!) from our cultural, colonial conditioning.We also get a surprise visit multi-dimensional house-call from a beloved guide from seasons 1 & 2! An offering is made that doubles as ritual: cutting ties to shame, asking forgiveness, welcoming your sp...
2025-11-0732 minRoot + RiseEpisode 8: Non-Linear Causality: The Wiggly Way of Ecosystems, Nature & InterdependenceJoin Rohini for this exploration of one of the most humbling truths of the living world: that life does not move in straight lines.Non-linear causality is the way of Nature, of ecosystems, of healing and relationship. It’s the spiral rhythm through which life self-organizes, regenerates, and evolves — not through control or prediction, but through interdependence and emergence.Rohini unpacks the contrast between linear causality, the worldview of Newtonian physics and scientific materialism — where every cause has a single, measurable effect — and non-linear causality, the realm of quantum mechanics, ecology, and Mystery, where everything is entan...
2025-10-1046 minRoot + RiseEpisode 7: Your Desires Are Not Your DesiresTune into this exploration of the deeper nature of desire — not the fleeting and distracting cravings that we're bombarded with in our culture, but the soul-aligned, values-rooted desires that stir something deeper in us.Drawing on the body’s wisdom, the poetry of Kahlil Gibran, Vedic philosophy, and nervous system resilience, Rohini re-frames desire as Nature’s evolutionary intelligence moving through us — a current to be stewarded, not owned or controlled. She invites us to start noticing the difference between compulsive wants and the authentic impulses that connect us to Life’s unfolding.This episode touches on...
2025-09-0821 minRoot + RiseEpisode 6: Trauma + Autoimmunity — The Deeper CallIn this deeply personal episode, Rohini shares her transformative journey of resolving childhood trauma and related autoimmune conditions through following inner guidance rather than conventional medical approaches. Rohini explores the crucial distinction between disassociation and dis-identification, emphasizing that we are not our wounds but rather the compassionate witnessing presence that tends to them. She shares how physical symptoms became messengers calling her back to her body, ultimately leading to profound healing through trauma-informed somatic work, Ayurveda, and reconnecting with ancestral wisdom.This episode illuminates the powerful connection between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and autoimmune c...
2025-08-1632 min
Byte Sized BlessingsByte: Rohini Walker ~ How to Save Yourself - By Sinking Into The Universe!Hey babes,here you go, another excellent human delivered right to your earbuds, for all your listening pleasure! Rohini Walker is, quite simply, someone who will dive into the darkness, the silence, with each and every one of us, and then RE-MEMBER us into our bones, our bodies, our SELVES! In that way she is a maker of souls, a healer of humans, an excavator and reclaimer of US, of what we are and what we can BECOME! She absolutely does not shy away from the deep, dark, because she knows, that all too often, that is where the...
2025-08-1312 minByte Sized BlessingsInterview Rohini Walker ~ How To Save Yourself - By Sinking Into The Universe!Hey babes,here you go, another excellent human delivered right to your earbuds, for all your listening pleasure! Rohini Walker is, quite simply, someone who will dive into the darkness, the silence, with each and every one of us, and then RE-MEMBER us into our bones, our bodies, our SELVES! In that way she is a maker of souls, a healer of humans, an excavator and reclaimer of US, of what we are and what we can BECOME! She absolutely does not shy away from the deep, dark, because she knows, that all too often, that is where the...
2025-08-131h 05Root + RiseEpisode 5: How Collective Amnesia feeds ColonialismDive into an exploration of collective memory, and the ways in which its erasure feeds the roots of colonialism. What does it mean to forget as a collective? And what might it mean to remember, not just with the mind, but through the body, the land, and ancestry?You’re invited to trace the lineage of collective amnesia, from the systemic silencing of Earth-honoring cosmologies to the colonization of time itself. Through presence and deep listening, it’s possible to connect ancestral grief, embodied memory, and the unprocessed trauma perpetrated by the psychologies of empire and colonialism. ...
2025-07-2825 minRoot + RiseEpisode 4: Sacred Attention as ReciprocityJoin host Rohini Walker into an exploration of sacred attention as a valuable resource and life-affirming offering. In a world consumed by distraction and speed, our attention has become commodified, fragmented, and pulled in countless directions. What happens when we reclaim it? When we slow down enough to offer our presence as an act of devotion, of relationship, of reciprocity?Rohini explores the idea that attention is not only a sacred resource but also a portal - into connection, aliveness, and the animist understanding that we are in relationship with all things. She unpacks the somatic effects...
2025-07-1223 minRoot + RiseEpisode 2: We Are Living in an Animate WorldIn this episode of Root + Rise, we explore animism — not as an abstract concept, but as a living, embodied worldview rooted in relationship. Animism teaches that all life, all phenomena, are ensouled and conscious — from planets and plants to our organs, emotions, and symptoms.Rohini Walker shares how this ancient, earth-honoring perspective is not only central to Indigenous and ancestral traditions across the globe, but also offers a powerful antidote to the disconnection, fragmentation, and spiritual wounding of modern life. We look at how symptoms can become messengers, how the wisdom of the body speaks in sensation, and...
2025-06-1920 minRoot + RiseEpisode 3: Your Values Are A PortalIn this episode of Root + Rise, host Rohini Walker explores the liberating power of aligning with your authentic, soul-rooted values — the kind that often ask you to step beyond cultural conditioning, familial expectations, and the comfort of approval.Our true values, like everything in Nature, are alive and evolving. When we choose to live in alignment with them, we’re not just “being true to ourselves” — we’re participating in a larger, sacred act of soul reclamation. We begin to heal the deep rupture of self-alienation that the dominant culture depends on.Rohini shares how our values c...
2025-06-1915 minRoot + RiseEpisode 1: The Radical PauseWelcome to the very first episode of Root + Rise — a space to slow down, root into your inner knowing, and rise into soulful alignment with life. In this opening episode, host Rohini Walker invites you into a sacred pause: an intentional return to the body, to breath, and to the deeper voice of your inner or True Self.We explore what it means to reclaim stillness in a culture of overstimulation, and how this radical act of turning inward becomes the foundation for self-trust, creativity, nervous system healing, and soul-body sovereignty. Rohini shares some guiding principles, and si...
2025-06-1931 min
Ted in Your HeadInterview with Rohini Walker, Writer, Mentor and Consultant - Episode 476You must check out this fascinating and illuminating conversation with Rohini Walker, British-Indian writer and devoted practitioner of soul-body liberation. Rohini moved to the desert of Joshua Tree, California with her husband from London, England in 2013 and began a creative journey of writing, mentoring, and consulting.
Rohini co-founded the arts and cultural print periodical Luna Arcana, with Martin Mancha (Ted’s cousin)
Ted was inspired to have Rohini as a guest because of her article titled “Committing to Digestion in the Information Age.” In this article from her newsletter Letters from Luna, Rohini discusses the over-consumption of information that has become ad...
2025-06-1031 min
Biopic: A Podcast StoryEpisode 21: Gandhi, the Biopic that Won Best Picture Instead of E.T.Remember that time we pretended that Blade Runner, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The King of Comedy, ET, and Rocky III were inferior to the movie Gandhi? The 1980s were fun.
Rena and Sara take a journey back to their teen years to re-watch this beloved teaching aid for high school history instructors and it was … not fun. Gandhi remains a bloodless but well-executed hagiography that also happens to be beautifully shot and eighty-nine hours long. So many train rides and speeches and marches and beatific jailings, so much clothing-weaving and platitude sharing. Oh, and dust. Plentiful du...
2024-09-171h 12
More Than SundayHow can we work together to help end homelessness? | Wayne WalkerIn this season of the ‘More Than Sunday’ podcast, we're partnering with Austin Street Center to better understand homelessness, advocacy, and empowerment. Hosts Rohini Drake, Director of Online Ministry at First United Methodist Church Richardson, and Daniel Roby, CEO of Austin Street Center, are joined by a new guest each week. In this episode, we sit down with Wayne Walker, who serves as the CEO and Pastor to the homeless at OurCalling. In 2001, Wayne, along with his wife Carolyn, started serving the homeless community in Dallas and founded OurCalling in 2009. Please join us as Wayne shares how utilizing cooperative collab...
2024-05-0129 min
Career Conversations with the Monash Health Science SocietyEpisode 11: Committee Conversations - Staying on track with studying during lockdownsFor our second episode of 2021, we're trying something a little bit different; Committee Conversations! In this episode we hear from Hayley, Sumaya, Rose, Rohini, and Kesang from the MHSS committee. They discuss what they've been doing this year to stay on track with their university work and life balance during lockdowns. Working towards a degree is difficult at the best of times, but doing it during a pandemic is even more so. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, try out some of these tips from our committee. Stayed tuned for more career conversations!
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2021-09-1222 min
The Best Pick movie podcastGandhi (1982)Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 88: Gandhi (1982) Released: 2 June 2021 For this episode, we watched Gandhi, written by John Briley and directed by Richard Attenborough. It starred Ben Kingsley as Gandhi with support from Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth, Pradeep Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox and John Gielgud, among many others. From its 11 nominations, it managed to win eight Oscars including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor for Kingsley, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Disclosure on Netflix. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81284247 Next...
2021-06-021h 32
Myth MattersHow to escape the "nothing but"-- practices and gifts of the symbolic life with Rohini WalkerSend Catherine a text MessageIn the last podcast, we talked about the crisis of a life of "nothing but" and the inherent dangers in what C.G. Jung called "the one-sidedness" of Western consciousness. The overly rational person is psychologically crippled, and vulnerable to what is repressed in the unconscious. This is also true of cultures, and we are living with the ills and effects of this one-sidedness right now.So, how do you become a healthier person, and a better citizen in a saner world? You learn to live the symbolic life, decolonize...
2020-10-0846 min
The EnvelopeGandhiOn this episode, we discuss the fifty-fifth Best Picture Winner: “GANDHI.”"Gandhi" is the biographical drama that presents the major events in the life of Mohandas Gandhi, the beloved Indian leader who stood against British rule over his country. Dedicated to the concept of nonviolent resistance, Gandhi is initially dismissed by English officials, including the influential Lord Irwin, but eventually he and his cause become internationally renowned, and his gatherings of passive protest move India towards independence. Directed by Richard Attenborough, the film stars Ben Kingsley as Mohandas Gandhi, Rohini Hattangadi as Kasturba Gandhi, Roshan Seth as P...
2020-05-311h 08The Best Pick movie podcastGandhi (1982)Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 88: Gandhi (1982) Released: 2 June 2021 For this episode, we watched Gandhi, written by John Briley and directed by Richard Attenborough. It starred Ben Kingsley as Gandhi with support from Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth, Pradeep Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox and John Gielgud, among many others. From its 11 nominations, it managed to win eight Oscars including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor for Kingsley, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Disclosure on Netflix. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81284247 Next...
2019-01-301h 32
Desert Lady DiariesDLD| Rohini WalkerIn 2013, tired of London's frenetic pace, Rohini (say Roe-hee-knee) and her husband, Oliver, embarked on a long holiday to the U.S. and their first stop after landing in Los Angeles, was Joshua Tree. It was summer, so they lingered in Crossroads Cafe in downtown Joshua Tree - pretty much daily. After a week, they were hooked, but had planned to visit other U.S. locations. Even though they were seeing new sights, they couldn't stop talking about Joshua Tree. Which is why, at what was to be the end of the trip, they extended it for three more weeks...
2018-09-1026 min