When I originally came to the practice of gnosis, it was through the runes. This was with my teacher and beloved pagan community member Lara Veleda Vesta. I still to this day credit Lara with pushing me on my path and leading me to where I am today. If it were not for her guidance and vulnerability, I would not have such a firm foundation in relational work with the more-than-human. Lara emphasized relationship and relationship that you took point on. This wasn’t a path of so

Somatic Meditation & Our Unique Situation Let’s discuss some general and somewhat lofty context to set the stage for understanding the purpose of somatic meditation. We’ve come into this life having much forgotten who or what we were beforehand and what we’re supposed to be doing here, what our reason for incarnating is, if there is one. If our family, elders, school, culture, or government knew what that was, they could potentially help guide us, but often these influences a

Before any of my work will serve its purpose, you really must have a foundational understanding of the history and context of this most essential topic: animism! Basically all of my work centers around the concept of animism, but the definition of what this actually means might be lost in the muddy waters of what animism was thought to be and what animism has only recently come to be understood as through relational understanding and a reclamation of Indigenous knowledge.