Indigenous scholar Apela Colorado, Ph.D., joins Anita Sanchez to explore the power of dreamwork and practical ways to reconnect our inner and outer polarities.
Grab yourself a Ram Dass inspired dream journal and start on your own, heart-centered, dreamwork journey.
This week on The Four Sacred Gifts, Anita and Dr. Apela Colorado discuss:
- A loving prayer for all of those who are suffering around the world
- Inner connection between the self and larger reality
- Dr. Apela’s experience growing up embedded into nature
- Facing the shadowy parts of ourselves and the world
- How Dr. Apela moved through the traumatic parts of her childhood
- Re-indigenizing reality and looking for ways that our inner polarities can be brought together
- Dreamworkers, dream ceremonies, and Dr. Apela’s prayer to her ancestors
- How dreams can do so much for us, and are actually very influential to our waking reality
“Before you go to bed at night, just ask your ancestors to allow you to have a dream—to sense whatever it is, and just leave it at that. Open your heart. Say it truly not just from your head, but from your heart.” –Anita Sanchez
“I found out if you want to do revolutionary work, for me it means work that sustains life, it means the sacred feminine, it means the connection of feminine and masculine, the polarities and bringing them together through love.” –Apela Colorado, Ph.D.
About Apela Colorado, Ph.D.
Founder of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network, Apela Colorado, Ph.D.(Oneida-Gaul) is a pioneering scholar, educator, and cultural bridge-builder whose work spans Indigenous knowledge systems, social policy, and spiritual ecology. A Ford Foundation Fellow, she earned her Ph.D. in Social Policy from Brandeis University in 1982, with additional studies in Federal Indian Law and Child Welfare at Harvard University. She has served as a representative to the United Nations Earth Summit, a delegate to the Conference on Religion and Environment hosted by the President of Indonesia, and an advisory board member for the South African Research Chair in Development Education. Her scholarly publications explore the intersections of Indigenous wisdom, spirituality, and science. She is the author of Woman Between the Worlds: A Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom (Hay House, 2021), and co-author of numerous academic works on cultural revitalization and sacred ecology. Learn more HERE.