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How can we reconnect with the impressions & resources of our ancestral lineage, in somatic ways?
I recently invited Rani George, a practitioner steeped in both Eastern & Western spirituality, to join us for an exploration of ancestral reconnection at our The Future Is Embodied Conference.
During the conversation Rani offered us an experiential practice of expanding our awareness to perceive more of our ancestors, somatically. I just had to share it more widely so today on the podcast we’re joined by Healing Arts Practitioner Rani George.
“We are the way our ancestors impact the world.
We are their hands.
We are their mouth.
We are their eyes”
– Rani George
In this conversation, we explore:
- Rani’s mystical awakening into her indigeneity
- The traumas and resources that are passed down through our ancestors
- Rani’s diverse cultural teachers and what they have reminded her of the ‘universal Indigenous Field’
- Why reconnecting with our indigeneity isn’t a modality – but rather a way of living
- Jenna & Rani share diverse examples of how our indigeneity speak to us, through the body
- Rani guides us on a powerful 15 min experiencing of expanding our bodies wisdom to perceive our ancestors
- Two beautiful practices to deepen your ancestral connections
“We are expressions of the fact our ancestors survived.
We are the symbol of resilience and capacity.”
– Rani George
About Rani George
Healing Arts Practitioner
Website
Rani George was raised with the influences of Eastern and Western mystical spirituality and earth-based healing traditions handed down through the generations by her mother. Her adult daughter continues in the line. She has been in private and group practice and served as organizer, consultant, presenter, and teacher in the healing arts for over 30 years. She is a Systemic Constellations facilitator with specializations in Spiritual and Nature Constellations. Her current focus is Ancestral Indigenous Reconnection utilizing embodiment practices, hands-on energy work, and meditative processes to access the indigenous wisdom and resourcing of our ancestors.
Resources from today’s podcast
- Rani’s work & website http://www.circlefolks.com
- Feminine Embodiment Coaching – an emotional embodiment & vulnerability-based professional training for coaches
- School of Embodied Arts
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Transcript
(This transcript is generated by AI so might not be perfect)
Hello and a very warm welcome to this conversation with myself, Jenna Ward and our guest today, Rani George, who is speaking with us about Somatic Ancestral indigenous Reconnection. This is such an interesting conversation because for many of us, we might hold the question about how we can reconnect with the impressions, but also the resources of our ancestral lineage if that lineage has been lost, traumatised or forgotten. And in today’s conversation, which also includes a really rich 15 minute guided process by Rani, we’re exploring some of the processes and some of the principles for ancestral reconnection and how Rani found her way into this work. So Rani has been raised with an influence of both eastern and western mystical spirituality and earth-based healing traditions. And these have been handed down through the generations from Rani’s mother and also onto her daughter who continues the work today. Rani has been in practice both in private and group practice for over 30 years as a systems constellation facilitator, specialising in spiritual and natural constellations. And her current focus is around ancestral indigenous reconnection using embodiment practices, hands-on energy work and meditative process to access the indigenous wisdom and the resourcing of our ancestors. A warmly welcome you to this rich and intimate conversation, and thank you for joining us today.
(01:44):
Welcome, Rani. It’s really lovely to have you here with us today. I would love for us just to dive right on in and get to know you personally a little bit more and explore what have been some of the key personal factors that have driven you and have driven your work in reconnecting with the indigeneity of your ancestral lineage. And I know your ancestral lineage is one that is diverse and spans different continents, so I would be so grateful if you could kickstart us with a little snapshot into you and how you came to be so passionate and skilled in this really needed area of work.
Rani George (02:29):
Thank you. I’m, I’m happy to do that. It feels like a good use of me. Just in terms of just history. I was born in India to parents who are of the syrian Christian, which is believed to have come from St. Thomas the Apostle, coming to that part of India.
And so my family leads back to that 2000 year history and before that Hindu of course, and that feels important to me in terms of setting the scene. A very mystical thread from both religions runs through my ancestral lineage. And I believe just the deep gifts of what I have received immediately from my mother and my father. And from so far back, we’ve, my parents left India when I was two years old and came here to the United States, and we’ve been in the Washington DC area since then. It was on one of our journeys back to India, which they took us regularly.
(03:55):
I, I just want to call it a mystical awakening. I was in meditation and suddenly my hands started moving and I knew that they were moving something. I knew they were doing something productively, although it looked like it was just the air around my body. My body started going into yoga positions, not ones that I had learned. I wasn’t really actively involved with yoga at that time, but just that my body just seemed to know what it should do, what position it needed to take to find balance, to find settling, to find a deeper presence in me. I couldn’t have given it all those words, the language that I’ve just shared with you at the time. It was actually just more little overwhelming as to what’s happening here. And my husband came in and I just sort of explained this little something is happening. We both knew that we weren’t going to go to the local priest and ask, we just knew that wasn’t the avenue and whatever this was that was opening up in me.
(05:14):
And at breakfast, my sister-in-law said, there’s a new center that’s opened up in town and it’s called Reiki and Pranic Healing. This was 35 years ago, and nobody I knew was using that language or that understanding at all. But I went and I found this man that I described the situation. He said, oh, you’re an emerging healer. Like, oh, you had orange juice for breakfast. It was like, no big deal to him. I said, well, what is that? What exactly is that? And I feel that as if that’s just sort of kick-started a more conscious process of just of exploration really, of who am I? What am I to do? I’m by training, academic training and work a chemist. And so there was a lot there like religion-wise and profession-wise that just didn’t quite fit into whatever was happening here. But then the term alchemy comes forward, and I just really trust that that was it. It’s that path, the alchemical path with my body as my primary teacher.
(06:40):
So I started studying the healing arts energetic processes, but when the ancestor piece really came in, I had had an established healing arts practice, and I experienced family constellations work just in a practice setting. And I had such a profound experience. I was invited to be a representative and I just knew this was it. I just knew this is why my body was here incarnate at this time on the planet. And then from that day onward in my reiki practice, grandfathers would show up, someone would smell their grandfather’s tobacco or they would taste their grandmother’s cobbler or that these other folks started showing up in the reiki room. And so that was when I knew that I really needed, I needed some more guidance, some more way showing in this way. But it just really happened very spontaneously and this awareness of who else walks in the treatment room other than the one individual body that just walked in, and this vast, vast numbers of people, of beings that join and that resource and that challenge because it’s not all happy resourcing.
(08:15):
There’s a lot of trauma, there’s all kinds of things that get passed down in our lineages. And so to really learn how to acknowledge all of that and to really invite in the resourcing to invite in those that really survived well until they went to being ancestors and that they’re available now to be a resource to us. And I remember a story that my mom used to tell me when I was little, when in India, all the homes always have a wall full of the grandmothers, the grandfathers, it’s just a thing that you do. The family is just honored on a prominent wall in the house. And she said, and every time I walked into a house, I would look, go to that wall, and I would say, oh, she has her nose. And he smiles just like him as a little one that I was just always noticing how are these people connected to each other and what have they passed on? What are the legacies even in this form of a nose or a smile? And so that’s a tender thing for me when I look back on my mom noticing that about me as an adult would share with her about the ways that I was being called to look.
Jenna Ward (09:43):
I love hearing about your experience of your mystical awakening and then landing in this sense of purpose. What a gift to receive that. And I adore how you didn’t necessarily choose this path, but it kind of chose you in a lot of ways. I think that’s very common for a lot of people in their own way listening and joining us for this conversation, myself included. There’s often a sense of, I’m not really sure what I’m navigating towards, but it’s kind of choosing me. And not that we don’t have choice or autonomy, but there is an ease and a rightness in choosing it back. So I just hear so much of that in your experience, and I really appreciate how I come from a western culture. I’m based in Australia, a colonized land. We have a very hyper individualistic focus in terms of when you walk in the room, it’s just you and the hard work that you can make of yourself in the world.
(10:48):
So I really loved hearing from you around as somebody walks into your treatment room and they’re walking in with all of these resources, resources that have been passed down through lineage and that can invite more resourcing from the ancestry. That’s so beautiful. And I think from my culture, that’s a very foreign concept, but it feels so right in my bones. And I feel like we’re at a time whereby so many people collectively personally, we’re hungry for more of this. It’s necessary for more of this remembering and this wisdom to come. So really grateful that you’re here with us today and that this work has chosen to work through you. In preparing for our chat, we had emailed around the universal indigenous field as a way that we might be embodied and resourced, and you spoke about that idea of being resourced and inviting in the resourcing. I’m wondering if you might speak with us and share with us a little about what this connection is with the universal indigenous field and what your experience or your perspective on that is.
Rani George (12:00):
Well, in the field of family constellations, there’s a term called the knowing field, which is just meant to, it’s like rupert, sheldrake’s work, morphogenic fields. It’s that energetic resonance in a family, in a community, in a business organization. There’s just this energetic connection that we have. I have a particular, one of my major teachers is a Native American woman of indigenous lineage, a shoshone tribe. And I met her maybe after being a constellations facilitator for about 10 years. And I knew on meeting her, this was my next teacher, that she was to be the path going forward. But what I really came to understand was that she was not to teach me about shoshone ways of healing. She was to guide me to my own
people, to my own lineage, to my own history, to the gifts of when my people were indigenous and knew themselves to be of the land, to be of nature. And that where is it that that has been severed or pinched or clenched and not flowing as freely any longer because of the very real traumas that the lineage, just looking at my lineage, what we have been through.
(13:49):
So I think that’s really where the phrase is hers, the universal indigenous field. It brought sense. So systemic constellations is, was founded by a german psychotherapist, jesuit priest who worked with the Zulu tribe in Africa for 17 years. And I say he has the wisdom to know that he wasn’t there to convert them to christianity,
(14:24):
But he learned the language and he lived with them and they welcomed him in and he was able to learn about their work with the ancestors and the way they viewed things. As you were saying earlier, the western, maybe western eastern way of looking at things, but that they knew that if somebody kept having headaches, it wasn’t just their body in isolation having headaches, where are the connections? What does it arise out of? And particularly the interaction with the ancestors. I think he was very moved and touched and inspired by and was able to sort of integrate western psychotherapy with this wisdom, with this indigenous wisdom. Wisdom. For me, when I heard the term universal indigenous field, which I had not heard of in the constellations world in general, I heard it from this shoshone teacher of mine. This is it. This is the magic. This is what my nose was following.
(15:28):
And again, that knowing of, I’m trying to think of an example I can share. My daughter and I, she’s a facilitator as well. We built a yurt in our backyard and it was to do the circle work and our private one-on-one work. And after we constructed it, every time I walked into the yurt, I heard, I saw, and I smelt Kerala India. And it lasted for I would say about three months. I mean, I left living there when I was two. So it’s not like sort of a cognitive experience, but it was so unmistakable. I would look out the windows, I would shake my ears. But I was in India. And then one day, I want to say about three months later, I walked in anticipating the same immersion and it was Rockville Maryland, it was the Washington D.c area. It was here. It was the place that had been home or 60, sixty-six years.
(16:49):
And so it was this, that’s I guess what I mean by living into it, living into it, that no one was facilitating that for me. No one had me on a treatment table. It was just walking in, allowing my body to experience what it needed to experience to move into what was mine to offer, what was to be transformed in me and what was mine to offer to others. And then it was that indigeneity, that knowing myself to be of the land I could also get stuck in, not in India, I’m in America, that there’s a lot of arbitrary things that we draw around these things. And that somehow finally, the land under that yurt, tell me in all of it, I love hearing
Jenna Ward (17:48):
This story because I feel there’s many people that will be listening to us who perhaps whose ancestral roots are not from the land that they’re on. And the process of colonization has hugely impacted this. I myself only have several generations of family from Australia, and before that we were located in very different parts of the world. And that’s been a really interesting process of
(18:16):
Reconnecting to and realizing there’s immense wisdom and gifts and there’s parts of me that resonate so strongly with these practices, people, places, and yet they’re not something that’s necessarily easily available to me. And I also really appreciated what, just a wonderful melting pot of teachers and influences and cultures and different ways of accessing that ancestral knowing. You’ve mentioned multiple continents from around the world as you were sharing your story of what sparked and inspired you, but ultimately crystallized to find your way of knowing through experience and your way of sharing this work. So I’m really curious to hear how you see this work of reconnection and this work of in a lot of ways coming home, how you see that interface or the necessary component of embodiment in that practice, in that journey, in that story, from what you’ve described, there are a lot of somatic components to the experience that you’ve had, but generally looking at this process of people, individual me, others listening to this conversation who may be interested in sparking or going deeper on their journey, what is the relevance of embodiment and somatic work to the practice of reconnecting with your ancestry from your perspective?
Rani George (19:54):
We are the way our ancestors can impact the world, we are them. And so without this body, that’s what we have to offer is this body. And we are their hands, we are their eyes, we are their mouth, and there’s a way of completing. So if there are dynamics in the family system that have been challenging or that have been great traumas and severing from the land, there are incomplete stories that we have the profound gift, this moment of this incarnation to be the embodiment of their dreams,
of their capacity to make a difference in the world, to heal, to heal traumas unresolved from the past as well as resourcing the future generations.
(21:06):
The things that they were not able to complete we might be able to complete in simply acknowledging it of seeing and being shown the burdens and the traumas and sometimes even within our bodies to resolve those incomplete impulses movement. And then our children, my children’s children don’t need to do it. It’s been laid to rest. It’s been put to rest. I can share a specific experience that I had was about, I want to say two, like a two-year process where, so sometimes it’s a
one-hour constellation, sometimes it’s a two-year process. And that’s where living into the universal indigenous field, it’s not a modality in itself. In that way, I started having these sores. I had patches appearing on my leg and my pelvis, just the trunk of my body actually. And I went to acupuncturists homeopaths. I went to the my normal cast of characters that I go to for my medical care.
(22:31):
And what I came to understand was that there was, I would have it in dreams or visions during my meditations. I would actually have images of traumatic moments that weren’t mine. And I just came to understand that they were traumas that my ancestors themselves or people with whom they interacted with, the way that perpetrators and victims are connected to each other as you move on in lineages. And that I was actually just being given these moments that had really not resolved themselves in terms of the trauma that had been experienced. And this might frighten somebody, I want to be careful about how I share this, but this is after thirty-five years of being on the path and in a capacity to be able to really read somatic symptoms, which I think would be kind of universally accepted, that headaches and backaches and all these things have different sources and roots outside of strictly, strictly like a medical looking at it. And so I spent a fair amount of time just really walking, meditating, praying, practicing, praying for the images for the people and the images that I was receiving and finding solace and rest because it had just been seen, the trauma had been seen and acknowledged and they rested in a different way. And I truly believe that myself or my children or my grandchildren, there’ll be other things, there’ll be other things that we’ll be working on, these are being put to rest. But that my body was a very specific vehicle that for that healing process.
Jenna Ward (24:36):
Thank you for sharing that story. I feel very moved by it. And having not been on this path for nearly as long as you, in some ways I feel like I experience some of those similar messages or resolutions or desires for bringing things to completion from my ancestors. For me personally, it often, and I’m just sharing this in case it puts more into context for those who are joining us for the discussion, for me it often looks like noticing a tendency that’s really strong in my body that doesn’t really feel like it’s mine. And then noticing this tendency as it moves back through my ancestry. So I really appreciate you sharing that personal story that felt really moving to hear that. And I can appreciate, I like that you shared how you’ve been on the path for a certain amount of time, although these aren’t your words, the level of intensity and insight around what arises for you might be different to someone, say myself for example, who’s been on the path for a lot shorter period of time.
(25:48):
And I’ll share this in case it supports or resonates people to identify what their experience of connecting with this might be. For myself, what I tend to notice in terms of the opportunity for the ancestors to impact the world through my body, usually it tends to be noticing a particular way of being or thinking or operating in the world that just doesn’t feel like me. It doesn’t feel like mine. It’s like this deeper driver inside me that I don’t necessarily want and that I feel like the world and myself, we’ve evolved past that and yet it’s still here as this deeper driver. And for me, when I look back and I look at my parents and my ancestors and the narrative of how they came to be and how I came to be, these deeper drivers often make a lot of sense. Like, oh, that’s how your body needed to be in the world.
(26:53):
And I still have the imprint, perhaps that’s a good word for it, this imprint of that’s how it needs to be in the world. So there’s an opportunity to identify that imprint is not necessarily mine, it’s been of my making, and am I going to choose this imprint for my body to carry forward into how I create the future? That’s how at this point in time, interface with it. It’s a lot more subtle and nuanced and it often requires the thought of like, let’s look back and connect the dots backward and not just make this hyper individual me in a bubble. I’m just this way. It’s like we have been this way. So I share that in case that’s useful for someone who’s listening to our conversation. And I want to take a moment to also just expand here. I think it’s been implied in what you said, but I want to draw it out more explicitly.
(27:47):
We speak about all of these ways that the ancestors might want to impact the world, and we’ve both drawn on experience of things that might want to be complete or resolved, but you’ve also spoken about and at length the resources, the gifts that are available. So I’m wondering if you might have a perspective or an experience around how the ancestors are impacting
the world from that place of richness and resource. Again, I think it’s been implied in a lot of what you’ve said, but if there’s something there that you maybe want to speak to a little bit more fully, that would be so welcome.
Rani George (28:26):
Something that jumps to mind is that there’ve just been ways in which I think when there are global events, things that happen, reckonings within the country, political events that I feel as if, almost as if we are called sometimes called very specifically to an event. For me, just most recently, I would say it was nine 11 here in the States that about three weeks before that event, I found myself walking around the house singing American patriotic songs. It’s not something I do. And I would be washing the dishes in oz my country, I’d be like, I’m singing all these patriotic songs. And it was just sort of stored it away, but they kept arising. And nine 11 happened and was, I remember the day after nine 11 when there were all the posters of the young men that had absconded with the planes and all of that, and that young arab men and my son could look like a young arab man. And there was a way that I just knew that he walked differently in the streets of DC than he did the day before.
(30:09):
And so there was something about what been, and then it was just kind of dawned on me that for three weeks I’d been singing patriotic American songs and this notion that I had even growing up here, people just asking, still asking, where are you from? And will I ever be considered an American on the street? And so that there was something, I felt that this was coming in as a resource of these songs. It has meaning, and it may have, there may colonial and anti-immigration, there could be all kinds of things roiling around in there. But there was something about the, I dunno, those songs were mine.
They were being given to me and in a way that I had would never have anticipated before. So I think I just feel like it feels like an answer to your question. I’m not quite, but that just pops to mind as a way in which nothing anticipated, but I was already in my ancestor work for sure. And that my ancestors probably had freedom from the freedom march from Britain in their experience, but that there was a way in which they were just bringing in American patriotism into my being and my consciousness and sort of resourcing me in that way for what was to come.
Jenna Ward (32:00):
A really interesting example, and as you described it, I see these different layers of resource, ancestry, perhaps culture or aspects of culture, the land that we’re on. Really interesting just to see those pieces teased apart as you speak about your experience. Thank you for sharing. Now, we had spoken about the possibility of you inviting us into a short experience exploring the intersections of our major biological lines of ancestry within our bodies. And given that we’ve laid the foundation, I feel like now’s a lovely time if you would be so kind.
Rani George (32:44):
Yes, I’d be honored to. I want to clarify about a way that that was languished. It’s the interaction. This particular exercise will be about our bodies, the wisdom of our bodies to be able to perceive the lineages. Just to clarify that a little bit, and lemme see how time, okay, so this is going to be a meditative process. So I guess right now it’s you and I and we will, yeah,
Jenna Ward (33:29):
We’ll invite in everyone who’s joining us for the conversation. Rani George (33:33):
So whoever will be part of this ongoing conversation to really invite them to also allow themselves to settle into a meditative space as they listen to this, I’ll invite you to just gently close your eyes if that feels comfortable, and to really feel your sit bones on the chair, to feel your feet on the ground, to have a sense of roots growing through your feet into the ground and just observing where do the roots go? How far down? Is there an end? Do they have access into the ground? There’s nothing that has to show up, we’re just observing what is. I invite you to shift your attention to your thoughts. Are they kind of calm and gentle? Are they racing? Are they looping, being full of questions? Again, nothing that they should be or have to be, but just where are they? What are your thoughts? We’ll shift to our emotions, paying attention to our emotions
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Through
Rani George (35:28):
Happiness, sadness, curiosity. How are you showing up in this moment emotionally? Now, a final shift to an awareness of the body. What are you aware of in your body right now? The temperature, tiredness, heat,
Speaker 3 (36:18):
Cold,
Rani George (36:22):
Your organs, your feet, your hands, your senses. What are they taking in? Again, nothing that you should be doing, but just what is. Allow yourself to have a sense of the relationship between all three areas, your thoughts, your emotions on your body, and just with all of this, just bring your entire presence into your body exactly the way it’s now. I invite you to bring your
awareness to your right shoulder, somewhat gently to the front, the front of your right shoulder. And as you have your awareness there, bring in an awareness of your father’s father’s line. So the biological lineage, eternal lineage. Whether it’s who you grew up with, who you knew as father, the biological lineage, father’s, father’s line. Just bring all of your attention to that front right shoulder area and see what you become aware of. Is there a sense of the collective nature of this lineage? Is there a strength that comes in? Are they as a group? Are they loud? Are they very, very quiet? Are they closed? Are they shut? Are they emotionally connected? Just explore for yourself, what are you aware of in your body as your presence front, right shoulder, your father’s, father’s people.
(39:30):
Now we’ll just take a deep inhale together and an exhale and just allow a stored memory of the experience or maybe lack of experience in this section, this region of your body. And I invite perhaps just a sense of a clear clean water washing over your body as you allow yourself to separate, to disengage from that connection. And now bring your attention to the back of your right shoulder at this place, this location. I invite you to welcome your father’s mother’s. People must allow all your senses as they are ready to be awake, paying attention. And what happens when this collective is present? How is it different from your father’s, father’s people? What’s unique here? I’m not looking for particular individuals at this point, but the collective sense
Speaker 3 (41:27):
Of
Rani George (41:27):
Who this line Speaker 3 (41:30):
Is
Rani George (41:35):
And how your body is able to be aware of that. I will invite another joint, inhale, exhale, and another wash of liquid light. Whoever you feel called to just sort of clear the connection while holding its memory, not the actual connection. Now I invite you to bring your attention to the front of your left shoulder and at this time, invite and bring to awareness your mother’s, father’s, people. Again, just be giving attention to a distinct presence, a distinct quality of presence that this lineage may bring to you, that your body may sense and be aware of. Not so much actively comparing with the other two, but just noticing what appears, what do you feel? What do you sense? What emotions arise for you? Is there a sense of connection? Is there a disconnection? Is it a sense just of cold or dark? Or is the hair jostling and a liveness? And as you feel ready, we’ll once again, take a nice deep inhale together and exhale, sometimes useful to have your lips apart and just allow a refreshing laugh around you, disconnecting and holding the felt sense and a memory. And now for the last dive in, we bring our attention to the back of the left shoulder
(46:08):
And invite an experience of your mother’s mother’s line. (46:36):
What is their signature or their stamp? Who have they been in the world, in their lives? What might they have to share with you all together? As you feel ready, we’ll take an inhale and an exhale. I invite you to just take a gentle scan of your body at this moment and just see is there somewhere in your body, your belly, your heart, your throat, your head, your knees, anywhere that feels as if it’s calling for your attention. And if there is, lay a hand or both your hands on that area. If there are two areas, lay one hand in each on each.
(48:54):
And just trust this to be a location, wisdom, location that you can return to has a point of access, a part of your body that you know is online is available. We invite you to take a posture of gratitude, could be palms together, could be about head, could be a deeper bow, deeper whatever it is that your body might be drawn to do, to display gratitude for whatever has been revealed to you but has been revealed and gratitude for what is not yet ready to be revealed. Remember this posture of gratitude is a way of being able to ready, gently wiggle toes and fingers, gently looking your eyes as you’re, I invite you to just take the points in the room, find objects that are familiar to you, remind you of where you are located in time and space, and then we’ll return to our connection.
Jenna Ward (51:00):
That was so beautiful. Thank you warmly on behalf of me and everyone who sat in receivership of that beautiful experience. I can’t articulate all of what I felt, but I felt a lot and I love, I really enjoy practice where it can just be there without it having to be made into meaning too early. Thank you for those who are joining us for this conversation, this really rich experience today. Who might at this point be wondering, well, what next for me on my path, my remembering my journey with my
ancestors. I’m curious if you have any suggestions, any tips for practices, reminders, experiences that might be useful for those listening.
Rani George (52:06):
Well, I think I have always maintained an ancestral altar and I invite that as a beautiful practice. Could be photographs, they could be pictures of plants, of mountains, of anything that you know of in terms of connections to your indigeneity through life. So just to create a space where you just honor either the knowing with not knowing of where the people were indigeneity, but we know that they were at some point. All of us have that. And so I think just a sacred space. And then things that I mentioned in the process of that place in your body, and it may not have appeared in this process, but this is just like initiatory process. And so just trust that in the hours and days ahead, it could start revealing itself to you and that it’s sort an ongoing process. And so to stay open to that, so that location in your body, which is still just hold it as a sacred point of connection. And if you were able to take a posture of gratitude as a way of just ritualizing opening a connection and closing a connection for your own autonomy and for when you’re ready for interaction taxes.
Jenna Ward (53:54):
That’s so beautiful. Thank you for sharing those. They feel rich and ripe. Our time is coming towards a close. So I would like to asking, closing, if we are to collectively share a more embodied future, what is your reminder or your hope or your wish or the inspiration that you might like to share with everyone who’s joined us for this rich exploration and this conversation today?
Rani George (54:30):
Well, I think I would just say that we are the expression of the fact that our ancestors survived and that whether we know the stories or not, famine, war, genocide, slavery, colonization from all perspectives. There’s only, we are the sign, we are the symbol that they survived. And so knowing that they have wisdom to share with us as to how were they resilient, how did resilience, how did capacity show up in them, and how are they available to us for our own survival and for ways in which we’re called to collectively feed our capacity.
Jenna Ward (55:41):
That’s such a beautiful inquiry. Thank you for sharing that. We’ll, of course link to your work and where people can find you. But if you would be so kind as to also share us for those who might want to learn more or learn, investigate more deeply with you, where should they go to find you?
Rani George (56:01):
My website. My website. And that holds the different explorations that can follow up from this. So individually or as a group, as a collective to explore more specifically to find the resourcing ancestors in each lineage. They appear for us, they truly appear for us. And so that’s individual explorations that can be done. My email circlefolksfour number four at aol.com and people are welcome to get in touch
Jenna Ward (56:49):
And I’ll share both those resources. Sorry, did you want to add one more? Rani George (56:53):
Well, just this one book that has just recently been published called I Show This Nature Constellations and I have a chapter in this book entitled Ancestral Indigenous Reconnection. And that can be a nice first step in terms of just hearing stories or for some people reading is a better way of taking in information.
Jenna Ward (57:29):
Congratulations on your publishing, and we will link to that book. That’s really exciting. And I know that’s only just recently come out for you, so we will pop the link to there and people can explore different ways of connecting. It has been so rich and full of feeling to speak and share this space with you today. On behalf of everyone that’s joined us expressing a warm thank you for you and for your work and for what you’ve offered in our conversation today, it’s been wonderful. So thank you so much.
Rani George (58:04):
Thank you for the work that you’re doing for all of us and bringing this together deeply appreciated. Jenna Ward (58:13):
Thank you.