On the 6th episode of Mycelial, we speak with Omora Sonqo and Sophie Samrow.
Omora is a revered indigenous Medicine Man, musician, and healer from the Maputche nation of Chile. He embodies a profound connection to a lineage of healers that spans generations within his family. Sophie is the founder of Conscious Flow Breathwork and a passionate Holistic Health Coach amongst many other things.
Together they run Munay Temple in Bundjalung northern NSW. Munay Temple offers transformative spiritual retreats with indigenous communities around the world, holistic wellness, and healing ceremonies such as the Temazcal sweat lodge and Vision Quest to give some examples. Omora and Sophie are also newly married.
In this episode we talk about what indigenous rituals like the Temazcal and Vision Quest are and why they are beneficial to the whole being. We also do a deep dive into one of the many transformational retreats Munay Temple hosts around the world, with the Yawanawa tribe of the Brazilian Amazon as an example. In these retreats, western participants are taken to stay with, learn from and partake in traditional ceremony and ritual leading to a profound cultural exchange and deep healing.
We also talk about why its important that people from the west can be with, listen and learn from indigenous cultures in this way; the Yawanawa’s strong ties with plant medicines like Ayahuasca, and why and how journeying with plant medicines like Grandma can change ones life and the greater collective in deeply profound ways.
Lastly, we talk about the crossover and overlap of teachings and wisdom across all the indigenous tribes Omora and Sophie work with and follow on from our last episode, uncovering more about the Kiva multicultural gathering happening in the Northern Rivers of NSW March 2nd to 5th which is being hosted by Omora and Sophie and their Roots of the Earth family // and much more
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Massive Gratitude and Respect to Omora and Sophie for their time and wisdom. You can learn more and get in contact with them through their instagrams @omorasonqo or @consciousflowbreathwork and @munaytemple or at their websites www.munaytemple.org or www.consciousflow.com.au .
You can also learn more about the upcoming Kiva international elder gathering through the website www.kivafamily.au or instagram @kiva.gathering.australia
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This podcast is broadcast from the First Nation ancestral sacred lands of Bundjalung in so called Australia. I would like to pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging, and any indigenous Elders listening in. I’d also like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded in this country. Always was, always will be aboriginal land.
