For decades, Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahuatl (Aztec/Toltec) and Mexican American, has committed herself to bridging indigenous wisdom and science for individual, business, and societal renewal. Drawing on her indigenous life experience and inner-city origins, Anita is a messenger of the Eagle Hoop Prophecy and gifts: forgiving the unforgiveable, healing, unity, and hope in action. A renowned consultant, trainer, coach, and speaker, she focuses on cultural transformation, leadership, diversity, inclusion, and belonging for Fortune 500 companies, education, and global non-profit organizations. Anita is a board member of Bioneers, a member of the Evolutionary Leaders and Transformational Leadership Council, an Elder Council member of The Wellbeing Project, Wisdom Weavers of the World, and the Fire Circle Earth.
Anita is a grandmother, Auntie, mother, and activist who holds a Ph.D. in organizational development. The author of seven books, including her international award-winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, and her upcoming book, Your Kaleidoscope Mind: Getting More Done by Letting More Go, Anita shares tools for transmuting trauma and pain into freedom and joy. Dr. Anita’s recent awards include 2022 Mogul’s Top 100 DEI Leaders, 2020 Conscious Company Media “World Changing Woman”, and the 2020 World Woman’s Foundation “Woman of the Hour”- #SheisMyHero, a campaign to inspire one million girls to live their dreams and leadership. Each year, Anita leads an annual journey into the sacred headwaters of the Amazon, continuing her personal mission of inspiring people to discover and trust their gifts so that they become a life-giving force to all, people and the earth.
In this podcast, our intention is to amplify Native voices that are essential, and largely muted. Indigenous leaders from every part of the world – the east, west, north, and south, share their life experiences, unleash their knowledge, wisdom and expand our perspective: to inspire us to dream a different dream. They light the way from a dream of separation and illusions to one of connections and relationships, highlighting the “original knowledge” that provides an essential path to ensuring our (and the planet’s) survival. When we allow ourselves to be quiet enough to listen to the wisdom from within, from Elders, and from Mother Earth, we give ourselves the opportunity to experience unity and oneness with all life.
Learn more about Dr. Anita, her acclaimed self-paced online course, and her free song at FourSacredGifts.com and Anita-Sanchez.com
Synthesizing Western and indigenous paradigms, Rutendo Ngara and Anita Sanchez discuss how we can start healing the earth’s wounds.
This week, Anita and Rutendo Ngara journey through:
- A guided practice to connect with ancient wisdom
- The importance of rivers and water
- How African rivers contribute to biodiversity and nourishment of life
- The power of allowing wounds to heal
- Healing the pain afflicted on mother earth
- How harmony is the natural course of life
- The process of healing as a stimulus to become a healer
- Indigenous views on interconnection
- Breaking down the language of self and other
- Uniting the masculine and feminine, heart and mind, north and south
- Working to establish councils for earth stewardship
- The importance of feedback and the flow of past, present, and future
About Rutendo Ngara:
Rutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher whose professional interests have spanned from clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology, nature and paradigms of healing.
Holding a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering, her transdisciplinary focus centres on synthesizing Western and Indigenous paradigms – particularly between medical knowledge systems. and is a member of a number of organisations dedicated to ancient wisdom, activism and the protection of sacred sites and bio-cultural regions. She has a passion for weaving art, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole. Learn more about Rutendo’s work with Ancient Wisdom, The Council of the Eagle and the Condor, and the Earthrise Collective.
“If we are taken into disharmony, the natural course of life from natural law is to take us back into harmony. Then we continue this dance. The wounding, if we interact with it carefully, with awareness and mindfulness, is there to take us back into a higher state of consciousness.” – Rutendo Ngara
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