“I feel like when I attune to the severances [of domination], the pain is my map to the practice of belonging” - ridhi d’cruz

In this episode of the Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's Way, we journey with ridhi d’cruz on belonging to oneself, each other, the land and Life as a pathway to liberation. 

Chapters:

00:30 - 1:58 - Introduction 

01:59 - 16:34 - ridhi’s story: belonging as a pathway

16:35 - 20:37 - sydney’s story & navigating relational crisis with belonging

20:38 - 23:15 - navigating the whole potentiality of the human spectrum

23:16 - 33:36 - caste, ancestry and the Land in our belonging

33:37 - 45:20- accountability and repair on the path to belonging 

45:21 - 49:54-  Buddhist teaching of the 2 arrows

49:55 - 54:06 - moving through fear to power

54:07 - 58:50 - belonging in body as path to spirit

58:51 - 1:03:51 - slowing down in presence on (y)our unique path

1:03:52 - 1:07:12 - being enough as Life

1:07:13 - 1:14:19 - celebrating Life as the home of our belonging

1:14:20 - 1:16:11 - closing

ridhi’s bio & links:

ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender-wild, neurospicy Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India and moved to the unceded lands of the Chinook people (Portland, USA) in 2010 to pursue a graduate program in sociocultural and applied anthropology. Trained as a journalist and anthropologist, they fondly identify as a facilitator, artist and educator. Their life artistry roots at the intersections of place, healing, design and creativity. They have dedicated over a decade of their life on Turtle Island, working with communities to cultivate liberatory processes, projects and places that enrich our belonging to ourselves, to Land and to each other. They strive to honor the Original Peoples as well as their sacred and stolen Lands with whom they are so honored to be deepening relationship with in two continents connected by the Pacific Ocean.

You can find their website and more of their work here https://www.ridhidcruz.net/ 

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