Reverence
Cultural, Ancestral, Generational, and Community Reverence and Knowledge Acknowledgements; words by euni
All knowledge is recycled, replicated, expanded, and transformed. There is beauty in spreading healing, learning, and connection to understandings across communities, cultures, ethnicities, and bodies. From one life form to another. From the wildness of nature to the organization within modern society.
There is also a heartbreak of how we have centered capitalism with such dominance that the indigenous ways of living have been overridden in deeply toxic ways. In every part of my evolving and learning journey, I hope to return to expanding what I come across in such a way that empowers those I share knowledge with to hold deep gratitude, respect, curiosity, and open acknowledgement of the sources in which their healing were born.
It is to my belief that an important, liberating, and necessary part of the healing journey lies within our ability to extend reverence over appropriation of cultural knowledges and to build reciprocal relationships with sources of origin, nature, and communities of culture all around the world. As Americans, much of our knowledge is stolen and marketed, monetized, and tagged with credentials created by and connected to the face of people in power who more often than not have spent time extracting information from communities who have and continue to practice deeply connected relationships with nature, the Divine, community, and their own bodies innate wisdom for healing.
Self Study will continue to evolve as I continue to learn and grow. I hope to share a beginning to understanding where and how my methods, philosophies, and practices are being developed as I interact with sources outside of traditional academia and popularized accreditations that have more often than not been accompanied by price tags that make them inaccessible to folks who came from the communities in which the source of knowledge was birthed.
I choose to learn from mentors who hold lived experiences that can deeply relate to the topics at hand. From elders who have carried and preserved wisdom from many generations passed. From those who hold deep relationships with nature and the connections to source/god/another presence beyond ours that can be found within the vastness of the universe and earth. From plant allies. From people of color and many cultures who have learned within the systems of white wellness and have molded their learnings to translate back to the ways in which the individuals making up communities of color, many cultures, and gender non-conforming existence can embody with safety and trust. And lastly, I receive the downloads of knowledge, remembrance, and resurfacing of information that has been passed through my bloodlines from ancestors and generations across many lifetimes before this one I live within.
And part of the responsibility I hold within my privilege as a person who holds many identities and intersectionalities, is to dissect the information I cross with discernment, integrity, and proclamation to the places that it originates. I have invested into learning from the systems of white wellness and as a human living within the world as it is today, there will be times when I with discernment will continue to learn from those who have re-marketed knowledge as their own. This in some part in inevitable.
But my commitment in the ways I show up in the world is to slow down enough to examine, explore, express, and expand everything I come across with respect and reverence. Knowing that I am simply a conduit for healing, and nothing I share with you is specifically my own. The knowledge we encounter is owned by nature, spirit, and the world. And with this, I hope that you take time to slow down, examine, explore, express, and expand everything you learn moving forward that centers expanding access to deep healing back into marginalized communities in a way that allows each of us to continue healing deeply all across every part of the world.
A few of the sources of knowledge euni currently weaves within their work:
• East Indian Ayurvedic, Tantric, and Religious Traditions
• Black American Southern Traditions
• Native American Indian and Indigenous Peoples of the World
• Japanese Wisdoms
• Traditional Chinese Practices
• Caribbean Cultural Practices
• Queer + Trans Community + Cultural Practices
• Kink + BDSM Community + Cultural Practices
• Polyamorous Community + Cultural Practices
• A variety of spiritual knowledges collected from many sources, teachers, and cultures
More acknowledgments to come.