This week Sarah talks with Dr. Lorri Many Rivers Santamaria, a Ventura-based yoga teacher, reiki master, and director of MICOP's Healing the Soul, a research project investigating indigenous Mixteco healing modalities.

Dr.  Lorri starts us off with a lovely land acknowledgement and challenges listeners to explore the indigeneity and history of popular "New Age" healing arts practices. She also shares a short lesson on the impacts of colonization and offers a framework for "co-decolonizing" our minds and lifestyles.

We invite interested listeners to attend Dr. Lorri's virtual TedTalk on Saturday, March 20th, 2021. Tickets are available online:  https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/39920

Link to Lorri's Yoga and Reiki Business, aRoXa Calm: https://aroxacalm.com/

Links to Resources:
 Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project
About MICOP
Healing the Soul / Curandero el Alma


(Co) Decolonization and Land Acknowledgement:
A Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement
Toolkit - You're on California Indian Land, Now What?
Academic Article  - "Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor"
Magazine Article - "White Allies, Let's Be Honest About Decolonization"
Book - Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
More online resources available at: RacialEquityTools.org



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