teaching #5 Releasing Whiteness, Healing Race, Renewing Land-Based Culture - 7 Realms
🌿 Inquiry One — Releasing Whiteness & Healing Race
Where does disconnection live in your body?
When you feel defensiveness, guilt, or numbness arise, can you breathe into that space — not to fix it, but to feel what it’s protecting?
What might it mean to meet that part of yourself with honesty instead of shame?
🌍 Inquiry Two — Renewing Land-Based Culture
When you stand on the Earth, can you sense her presence beneath you — not as property, but as relationship?
What small act of reciprocity could you offer the land or the people who have tended it?
💧 Practice One — Embodied Listening
Find a quiet place and rest one hand on your heart, one on your belly.
Breathe slowly and say aloud: “I am willing to listen.”
Imagine listening to a BIPOC friend, ancestor, or teacher without responding or explaining — only listening.
Notice what happens in your body and let your breath soften whatever tightens.
Listening is an act of repair.
🌾 Practice Two — Land Reciprocity
Go outside and spend 15–30 minutes in silent relationship with a piece of land — a tree, a rock, a patch of soil.
Ask permission to be there.
Offer something simple: water, a song, a handful of food, your attention.
When you leave, whisper gratitude and notice what has shifted in your body.
Belonging grows through relationship, not ownership.
This teaching relates to the Foundations Healing Race & Psychobiology, Shadow & Death, Gender & Sexuality, and Cultural Ecosystems.