Synthesizing Western and indigenous paradigms, Rutendo Ngara and Anita Sanchez discuss how we can start healing the earth’s wounds.
This week, Anita and Rutendo Ngara journey through:
- A guided practice to connect with ancient wisdom
- The importance of rivers and water
- How African rivers contribute to biodiversity and nourishment of life
- The power of allowing wounds to heal
- Healing the pain afflicted on Mother Earth
- How harmony is the natural course of life
- The process of healing as a stimulus to become a healer
- Indigenous views on interconnection
- Breaking down the language of self and other
- Uniting the masculine and feminine, heart and mind, north and south
- Working to establish councils for earth stewardship
- The importance of feedback and the flow of past, present, and future
About Rutendo Ngara:
Rutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher whose professional interests have spanned from clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology, nature and paradigms of healing.
Holding a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, her transdisciplinary focus centres on synthesizing Western and Indigenous paradigms – particularly between medical knowledge systems. and is a member of a number of organisations dedicated to ancient wisdom, activism and the protection of sacred sites and bio-cultural regions. She has a passion for weaving art, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole. Learn more about Rutendo’s work with Ancient Wisdom, The Council of the Eagle and the Condor, and the Earthrise Collective.
“If we are taken into disharmony, the natural course of life from natural law is to take us back into harmony. Then we continue this dance. The wounding, if we interact with it carefully, with awareness and mindfulness, is there to take us back into a higher state of consciousness.” – Rutendo Ngara