Hey peepsies!!
I have gotten a lot of questions and interest and longing for exploration around the cultural appropriations pieces. I am sharing with you some resources from a course I took with Marike Clymer on Decolonizing Reiki.
She is very well informed and I recommend this course if you are wanting to know more about how to decolonize your reiki practice.
These are not required!! Just available if you are interested…
"Charting Your Own Path with Traditional Reiki Healer Marika Clymer"
"Transmuting the Cycle: Sacredness in All Ancestry" on Boundless Warrior Transmissions, Myranda and Holly discuss the practice of returning sacredness to European lineages, lost lineages, etc.
"Healing the Family Tree" with Sangoma Priestess Gogo Thule (video)
This is a podcast interview with Darla Antoine called "Anti-Racist Geneological Research (for Everyone)".
This is a podcast discussion with Sangoma Priestess Gogo Thule @thuleheals and her friend/sister, Sangoma Traditional Healer Gogo Ekhaya Esima @gogoekhaya, on Black liberation, ancestral healing and ancestral embodiment.
This is a podcast interview with Indigenous scholar, Dr. Kim Tallbear called "Can a DNA test make me Native American?", which talks about the nuances of determining kinship relations for different tribal groups, as well as the dangers of consumer-direct DNA test kits for actual Indigenous people here in the US.