Ep.108 - The Practice & Pathway of Belonging w/ ridhi d'cruz

“I feel like when I attune to the severances [of domination], the pain is my map to the practice of belonging” - ridhi d’cruzIn this episode of the Sacred Pathways: Stories & Wisdom from Walking the Heart's Way, we journey with ridhi d’cruz on belonging to oneself, each other, the land and Life as a pathway to liberation. Chapters:00:30 - 1:58 - Introduction 01:59 - 16:34 - ridhi’s story: belonging as a pathway16:35 - 20:37 - sydney’s story & navigating relational crisis with belonging20:38 - 23:15 - navigating the whole potentiality of the human spectrum23:16 - 33:36 - caste, ancestry and the Land in our belonging33:37 - 45:20- accountability and repair on the path to belonging 45:21 - 49:54-  Buddhist teaching of the 2 arrows49:55 - 54:06 - moving through fear to power54:07 - 58:50 - belonging in body as path to spirit58:51 - 1:03:51 - slowing down in presence on (y)our unique path1:03:52 - 1:07:12 - being enough as Life1:07:13 - 1:14:19 - celebrating Life as the home of our belonging1:14:20 - 1:16:11 - closingridhi’s bio & links:ridhi d’cruz (they/them) is a gender-wild, neurospicy Malayali who grew up in the city of Bangalore in southern India and moved to the unceded lands of the Chinook people (Portland, USA) in 2010 to pursue a graduate program in sociocultural and applied anthropology. Trained as a journalist and anthropologist, they fondly identify as a facilitator, artist and educator. Their life artistry roots at the intersections of place, healing, design and creativity. They have dedicated over a decade of their life on Turtle Island, working with communities to cultivate liberatory processes, projects and places that enrich our belonging to ourselves, to Land and to each other. They strive to honor the Original Peoples as well as their sacred and stolen Lands with whom they are so honored to be deepening relationship with in two continents connected by the Pacific Ocean.You can find their website and more of their work here https://www.ridhidcruz.net/ Subscribe & Listen to the Sacred Pathways here:APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/5JvVMMD... YOUTUBE    / @sacredpathwayspodcast   Join our online community for exclusive posts, community gatherings & more: https://sacredpathways.substack.com/ Apply to be a guest on the Sacred Pathways podcast: https://forms.gle/9pyxPWqHXMJ91Xrz7Connect with Sydney:www.jivanmuktahealing.comBamboo wind chimes at Hunter's Tor, Teign Gorge by Philip_Goddard -- https://freesound.org/s/700526/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 Get full access to Sacred Pathways at sacredpathways.substack.com/subscribe