When Loss Becomes Initiation: Somatic Grief, Ancestral Practices, and Sacred Healing with Sundari Malcolm
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Nina Rodriguez discusses the concept of grief as a process to move through with Sundari Malcolm, exploring somatic practices and ancestral healing.
What if grief wasn't something to survive, but something to move through with presence, ritual, and the full weight of your body? In this episode, Nina Rodriguez sits down with Sundari Malcolm, a birth, grief, and death doula, yoga and breathwork teacher, author of Grief Gems, and founder of A Healing Doula Academy. Raised by Yogi parents, Sundari brings a deeply embodied and ancestrally grounded lens to loss. After seven years caregiving for her mother before losing her to breast cancer at 2...
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