In this episode, Dawn Dancing Otter shares her journey through trauma, grief, and spiritual awakening, expanding upon how she integrates somatic work, indigenous rituals, and community healing into her practice. Her insights challenge conventional narratives around trauma, gender roles, and environmental destruction, inspiring a holistic approach to healing on personal and collective levels. In Today’s Episode You Will Cover: • The significance of grief as a pathway to self-awareness and communal healing • Challenging societal roles and myths around gender, masculinity, and femininity • The impact of rape culture and systemic violence, and how to build resilience Dawn Dancing Otter is a Mother, Community Grief Weaver, Rites of Passage and Plant Medicine Ceremonialist, Somatic Coach, Doctoral Scholar, Social Scientist, Researcher, Ritual Theatre Facilitator, Dancer, and Artist. She has been facilitating individual and group healing and educational work for 30 years. Dawn's work in the relational context is matrifocal, a decolonial and de-centering of culturally unbalanced, usury power dynamics that we have all been indoctrinated to perform. Years ago, she came to realize that focusing on facilitating healing for humans and their relationships one trauma at a time did not change anything about the system that was, and is, promoting the traumas humans have endured. Dawn's matrifocal decolonial teaching container - The Weavework School, coaches people to embark on their journey to intimacy, deeper connection, and belonging by immersing in ancestral ways of knowing - The Living Lands, music, language, dance, art, weavework, food, traditions, sacred plants, and gathering in nature. Connect with Dawn Dancing Otter: Website: www.theweaveworkschoo.com Substack @WitchAF: https://substack.com/@witchaf Facebook: Dawn Dancing Otter + The WeaveWork School https://www.facebook.com/groups/2708389616054976/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.real.dawn.dancing.otter/ YouTube: The WeaveWork School - https://www.youtube.com/@theweaveworkschoolofsoulre1610 Thank you for being here! Terra Kenzie Longacre is an author, heart Path educator, retreat leader, and mentor to transformational guides. She is devoted to helping heart-led visionaries, transformational guides, and change makers live and lead from a place of authenticity, alignment, and embodied wisdom. Website: http://www.terrakenzie.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/terrakenzie Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terrakenzieheartpath YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@terrakenzie Much Love, X♡︎ Terra Kenzie PS: I would love to hear from you! Add me /Tag me on Instagram if you are getting inspired from this podcast @terrakenzie For questions on how we can work together for coaching/mentorship or for collaborations, please email Terra and her Team at hello@terrakenzie.com
