Indigenous Wisdom with Julia Carmen

Julia Carmen
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Indigenous Wisdom is about opening yourself up and getting to know yourself better as a Human being on this Earth. In this podcast, Julia shares messages, channeled wisdom, and more to support your wisdom journey.

  1. Aug 5

    Indigenous Wisdom Archetypes: The Bastards

    What if the thing that makes you feel like the odd one out is actually your royalty? In this month's archetype episode, Julia Carmen sits with the "Bastards" — and puts the name in quotes on purpose. The dictionary root simply means something of a different shape or size than usual for its kind. Different from the mold, and nothing more. The Bastards are solid and unmovable, like a warrior — the pillars who hold up the king and the queen, taking on the frequency and vibration of whoever they support. Julia shares a story from a retreat in Montana, where her granddaughter Juliana was identified as a lead Bastard and was, at first, genuinely upset by the word. Months later, working through what the archetype meant, she made changes in her life she never thought she'd make. The teaching underneath it: the Bastards think they're the outsiders, the ones set apart. That feeling is an illusion — they are from royalty. Discernment goes both ways, and the Bastard's work is turning it inward, toward their own worth. The companion for this episode is the Jasper dragonfly, a rascal, a coyote, the Trickster, whose message is simple: go ahead and chase me, you'll never catch me, but you can try. If you've ever felt like the different shape, the odd one out — the invitation is to see the royalty in you. The different shape was never a flaw. It's the blueprint. Learn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfEnroll in The Magical PapersSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

  2. Jul 29

    Indigenous Wisdom Conversations: The Soul Beneath the Overculture with Juliana Guererro

    Where did the word "overculture" come from — and why do we still need it? In this J&J conversation, Julia Carmen and her granddaughter Juliana Guerrero trace the word back to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run With the Wolves) and Dr. Magda Permut's essay "On Overculture." Together they define it: whatever dominant force runs a family, a classroom, or a country — the hierarchy everyone quietly agrees to without questioning. Juliana, a high school teacher, uses the word with her students to talk about colonization. Julia shares the overculture she grew up inside — one that dictated marrying young and starting a family early — and reads a poem she wrote, "The Me and the Others," about being a fair-skinned Mexicana whose own brown children have called her a "white Mexican." They close on what it costs to keep explaining yourself so others feel comfortable, and where that explaining should end. The overculture didn't invent us, and it doesn't get the last word — underneath it is the Indigenous soul, older than any grid placed over it. Learn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfEnroll in The Magical PapersSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

  3. Jul 22

    Indigenous Wisdom Archetypes: The Lovers

    What if the Lovers were never about who they see, but who they've forgotten to look at — themselves? In this month's archetype episode, Julia Carmen sits with the Lovers, and the first thing she does is set down the assumption — this archetype isn't about romance. It's about unconditional love, for self and for others. A Lover is always balanced, made up of a divine heart and a soul — an alma. They know how to self-soothe, and they know what they want, always. This love isn't something to obtain, Julia teaches — it's already inside. Archetypes come from the nonphysical realm of being, where there's no right or wrong, only frequency and vibration. Like fish that don't know they're in water, we often don't recognize we're already swimming in it. What stands in the way is judgment — the judgment we hold of ourselves. Soul work is remembrance, not reinvention. The companion for this episode is the Kissing dragonfly, and their message is playful, a little cheeky: Yes is the answer. Kiss me once, kiss me twice, then kiss me once again. It's been a long, long time since you did that. Kiss your own life again. Resources to explore: Louis Armstrong — "It's Been a Long, Long Time" — https://youtu.be/rGsRUZD2yQM Enroll in The Magical PapersLearn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

  4. Jul 15

    Indigenous Wisdom Conversations: The Voice You Already Have with Julie Williams

    What does it take to trust a yes before the mind can explain it? Julie Williams — scientist, healer, educator, and founder of Consciousness Medicine — returns to the show. Along with their conversation today, Julie tells us about her new book, Om La La: The Power of Positivity Guidebook, a collaboration with twenty-four authors and featuring a forward from Julia. Julie and Julia talk about how Julie actually knows what's true for her — a kinesthetic yes that starts low in the belly — and about Gabe, Julie's dog of eighteen years, to whom the book is dedicated. Her chapter, "My Dog Is My Guru," traces a family constellation session where Gabe's presence, brought in as a resource, shifted the whole room. From there, the conversation widens: what women build with each other that's hard to build elsewhere, why "why" keeps you circling a problem while "what if" opens a door, and the four principles Julie calls the power of positivity — presence, perception, possibility, and practice. Connect with Julie: Website: www.consciousness-medicine.com Podcast: Healing Codes Instagram: @juliewilliamshealing Facebook: @consciousnessmedicine Episode 88 — Seeing the Divine and the Potential in Everyone with Julie Williams Learn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfEnroll in The Magical PapersSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

  5. Jul 8

    Indigenous Wisdom Stories: Going for the Tamales

    What does it mean when someone we love doesn't come back right away — and no one panics? Julia Carmen shares a fable from her mother's village in the mountains of Mexico, where messages traveled in the bodies of people — usually children — because there were no phones. When a child came home late from an errand, no one scolded her. The family just smiled and said, "she went for the tamales." Julia traces the phrase through three generations, grandmother to mother to daughter, and asks the question this episode turns on: what are your tamales? What absorbs you so fully that time disappears — and is that a problem, or is that the medicine? Find your tamales. Not to escape the task, but to stay alive to what's actually here. Learn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfEnroll in The Magical PapersSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

  6. Jul 1

    Indigenous Wisdom Archetypes: The Sensitives

    What does it mean to feel everything? In this month's archetype episode, Julia Carmen sits with the Sensitives — the ones with the big human hearts, who feel from the earth all the way to the universal source of the all. She opens by drawing a line many of us blur: a Sensitive isn't the same as an empath. Empathy is a human condition, tied to this planet. The Sensitive reaches further — earth to universe. The teaching turns on stardust. We're all made of it, surrounded by it — and a Sensitive picks up more of other people's than they need to. Three things every Sensitive must establish: boundaries, center, and balance, and all three are deeply personal. Julia shares her own toolkit — a warm shower to release what isn't hers, burning sage, calling the wind for a "swipe," a hot bath, a good meal, dancing, a few minutes on a mini trampoline. The companion for this episode is the Crying dragonfly, and her message flips crying on its head: the falling stars are not crying. Make your presence known. Stay in the awareness of you. Cry for joy. For a being who feels everything, the feeling itself is never the problem. Resources mentioned: Nat King Cole — "Stardust"Hokule'a Star of GladnessCrying DragonflyThe Magical Papers workshop (discover your own archetypes, on demand) Learn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

  7. Jun 24

    Indigenous Wisdom Archetypes: The Healer

    What holds the healer together? In this month's archetype episode, Julia Carmen sits with the Healer — the curandera, the servant, the teacher — and follows the teaching back to where it has always begun: with yourself. The Healer's energy flows like an atom, putting the stardust back together wherever it needs to be. Their medicine bag holds all the elements — water, fire, earth — because the path of healing draws from all of life. And the first thing Julia names is what this archetype is not: the one who goes out there and fixes everyone else first. The medicine has to live in you before it can move through you. You cannot give from an empty vessel. Three movements shape the teaching: how the Healer heals others, how the Healer heals themselves, and how the Healer connects with the world. Julia holds space for the Healers who give and give and forget to receive. Boundaries here are clarity, not withholding. Resentment is a signal. The invitation is always to come home to yourself first. The Jade Dragonfly is the companion: *Health is yours today. Let the healing begin. Healing from the inside out. Take your time to heal. Wear jade. Be the jade.* Learn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfEnroll in The Magical PapersSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

  8. Jun 17

    Indigenous Wisdom Conversations: The Female Frequency of Being with Juliana Guerrero

    What changes the day you stop asking someone else for the answer and finally ask yourself? In the second of a two-part conversation, Julia Carmen sits back down with her granddaughter, Juliana Guerrero, and follows the thread back to ancestors, heritage, and what Julia calls the female frequency of being — the creative force that makes and remakes the world, squashed for a long time and now waking back up. At the heart of the episode is a story Juliana has carried for years: leading a group to a ceremony site in Montana, losing the way, and finding it again only when she stopped, breathed, and followed a little girl down a lavender trail — running like she had run her whole life. Watching from a distance, Julia's sister saw a white-tailed deer where Juliana stood. Julia names what that is: a witness, so we can trust that what we felt was real. They close in the practice of it — soul listening, stillness, community, and Juliana's turn toward asking herself instead of always asking her grandmother. You are the genius of you. Be still, and listen. This completes the two-part conversation that began in Episode 172. Links & Resources mentioned: Soul ListeningEpisode 172 — Walking Both Worlds and the Now of Life with Juliana Guerrero" (Part One) Dragonfly Chisme CommunityLearn more about The School Without Walls and the Dragonfly Guides: Get your free guide: 10 Questions to Ask Your Soul SelfEnroll in The Magical PapersSchedule a free Cafecito y Chisme Call with JuliaExplore The School Without WallsProduction assistance from Podlad.com and Daypack Digital. Artwork by Olivia Dancel. Dragonfly art by Soul Creative Design.

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