Community, Leadership + the Ache for Elders w/ Malika Avani

<p>How do you connect with the ecosystem around you? Are you valuing others and deepening your human experience of this witnessing? The earth is speaking through us to look inside and to show up constantly in the ecosystem around us and leave it better than we found it. It is time to fuse tradition with what exists today.</p> <p><em><strong>“We are the ancestors of this time.”</strong></em> [21:11]</p> <p>In this episode of the <em>Regenerative Mystic Podcast</em>, I speak with Malika Avani, a creative consultant, documentary film-maker, internationally recognized facilitator of soul songs, and founder of <em>"The Healing Drum.”</em> Malika has been a custodian of the healing drum for 9 years. The healing drum is about coming back to the cyclical body, rhythmic body, and a rhythm that is a lot more regenerative and less into the ways of creating. She teaches people how to own their voices, birth their own soul songs, and come back to the practice of drumming. Malika is also moving into business creative consultancy to support creatives to birth a system that supports them in their creation process.</p> <p>We talk about the creation of an ecosystem rooted in the crossroad of shamanism and business. Malika explains how she’s living out her ancestors’ lives while still fusing tradition with what exists today and refuting the idea of neo-shamanism. She was taught to show up with grace to the local communities everywhere she goes – to walk with humility in the land of others and bring reciprocity. It is time we stop romanticizing indigenous tribes and allow them to experience the tail end of capitalism if that’s what they desire.</p> <p><em><strong>“A lot of people want the wisdom of culture but they don’t want the struggle.”</strong></em> [31:56]</p> <p>It is important that we investigate the tradition/lineage that we’re practicing, where it comes from, and try not to omit certain things we don’t know how to sit with. We should be vigilant not to bow down to certain structures that no longer serve us. We need to cele