Have you considered the amount of power you hold to choose your path during life's major transitions like giving birth, grieving, or dying? And do you exercise your right to tailor your experience to what feels right for you? Or do you go along with the prescribed conditioning without questioning what's available to you during these life-altering choice points?
Join Amanda and her guest Sundari Malcolm, Birth, Grief, and Death Doula, for a straightforward, candid conversation about the incredible power you have to choose what feels right for your soul while on your journey to living a full, authentic life free of other people's opinions and society's judgments and expectations.
They also discuss:
š„"New age" is actually ancient and "woo woo" is how your ancestors lived for thousands of years
š„The alchemy of grief: transmuting pain into power due to increased awareness of your limited bandwidth to stand for what no longer serves you and how to reach this place of peace
š„Ancient practices hold the key to aligning with our highest self and an explanation of some of these modalities such as plant medicine, ritual, sound and song, movement and dance, among othersĀ
š„Your cells hold the memory of ancient wisdom and are beckoning to be witnessed and activated as the path to healing body, mind, and spirit
š„Your power to listen to your body's inner wisdom for which conditioned programs to listen to and which ones to ignore
š„The empirical collapse that is happening all over the world (felt as collective grief) is not a collapse but a return to the simple solutions that have always worked and how this disintegration requires a deep surrender
š„Sundari's fascinating story of being raised between in an ashram in Yogaville, VA and NYC how she translates her yoga practice as a connection point to grief
About Sundari
Sundari Malcolm is a Birth, Grief and Death Doula specializing in yoga, breathwork and meditation. Sheās a teacher on a mission to equip people with the tools they need to manage lifeās greatest transitions. In 2007, at 27 years old, and after seven years of being her caregiver, Sundari lost her mother to breast cancer. Four years later, her father died from the complications of brain cancer. Those experiences redirected her life and led her to the beautiful path she travels today. A contributor to Help Texts and a grief expert with the For Grief Speakers Bureau, she is the author of the book Grief Gems and the founder of A Healing Doula Academy, a virtual self-paced training academy for the spiritually led grief & death doula with a focus on ancient indigenous holistic wellness.
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