Slow-Living as a Way Home

In this episode, we sit with something many of us carry without naming it: the experience of knowing something deeply yet being unable to reach it. I share a conversation from this week, and my own years of treating work as make-or-break, bracing so hard, preparing so much, that when the moment came, I could barely remember my own name. The knowing wasn't missing. The access was. From the ancestral way of understanding life, we explore a teaching that has been arriving for me slowly: the body does not forget it becomes crowded. We sit with the heart as a center of knowing, and wind, the inner wind that shortens when we live too long in survival. Fear narrows what we can hear. Slowness restores it. The embodied practice is a slow walk without a destination letting the body, not the mind, choose the pace with rhythmic handwork offered as a second doorway for anyone a walk isn't right for today. We close with the both/and: the ancestral path, and the modern voices Gabor Maté, Lissa Rankin's Sacred Medicine arriving at the same doorway. We don't have to choose one. We can let both be true. This episode is for anyone living in survival mode, over-functioning, over-preparing, bracing, who is ready to remember that what they're looking for was never lost. Slow Living as a Way Home is a bilingual podcast rooted in ancestral teachings, nervous system healing, and embodied practice. New episodes every week. If something here touches you, feel free to share it with someone you love or post a part that resonates. Thank you for reading, hearting, commenting, and simply being here. Your presence truly matters. And if this work has nourished you and you feel moved to reciprocate, you can support it here with a cup of tea—> tesito. ☕ Ways we can walk this path together: 🌿 Sunday Gathering — Every Sunday, I hold a free 60-minute meditation circle on Zoom. A small sanctuary for your nervous system. No experience needed — just your willingness to pause. Todos son bienvenidos. ——> Register Here 🏔️ Slow-Living Retreats — Intimate, application-only gatherings where slow living becomes embodied. Multi-day immersions in beautiful landscapes — ceremony, photography, community, and the kind of rest that changes everything. Next Adventure: Slow Living in the Highlands of Scotland. —> Learn More 🌀 Sabiduria — A weekly newsletter I write alongside Juliet and Georgina, where we explore embodied ancestral wisdom — the kind that moves through the body, not just the mind. If that calls to you, come find us on Substack. —> Subscribe to Sabiduría 🌿 Free guide: Slow Living as a Way Home → antupewma.kit.com/3f81139283

In this episode, I share what I brought home from two weeks at the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues — and the question the Abuelos have been asking me ever since. I sat in rooms with Indigenous siblings from territories I have never visited, speaking languages I will never speak. And my body kept recognizing them. The same grief. The same medicine. The same pulse. And what I understood — slowly, then all at once — is that the lines drawn between us were never ours. The Abuelos are tending sacred fires in every direction, across every Indigenous territory in the world, and those same fires are rising in our chests, surfacing the patterns and voices we have been carrying as if they were ours. Today we work with two plant relatives — Ruda for fierce discernment, Manzanilla for soft receiving — and we ask the question the grandmothers are asking: Whose voice is this? And is it mine? In this episode: What I witnessed at the UN Permanent Forum — and the recognition that lives in the body before the mind catches up The Mapuche understanding of the Abuelos as living presence, not memory A teaching from Arkan Lushwala on sacred fires being tended in every direction A plant ceremony with Ruda and Manzanilla to help you discern what is yours and what was passed down The question to carry with you this week when familiar patterns surface This is for the woman who is finally done carrying what was never hers. If something here touches you, feel free to share it with someone you love or post a part that resonates. Thank you for reading, hearting, commenting, and simply being here. Your presence truly matters. And if this work has nourished you and you feel moved to reciprocate, you can support it here with a cup of tea—> tesito. ☕ Ways we can walk this path together: 🌿 Sunday Gathering — Every Sunday, I hold a 30-minute meditation circle on Zoom. A small sanctuary for your nervous system. No experience needed — just your willingness to pause. Todos son bienvenidos. ——> Register Here 🎙️ Slow Living as a Way Home — My bilingual podcast where we explore ancestral wisdom, cultural remembering, and what it actually means to come home to yourself. Available wherever you listen. ——> Listen Here 🏔️ Slow-Living Retreats — Intimate, application-only gatherings where slow living becomes embodied. Multi-day immersions in beautiful landscapes — ceremony, photography, community, and the kind of rest that changes everything. Next Adventure: Slow Living in the Highlands of Scotland. —> Learn More 🌀 Sabiduria — A weekly newsletter I write alongside Juliet and Georgina, where we explore embodied ancestral wisdom — the kind that moves through the body, not just the mind. If that calls to you, come find us on Substack. —> Subscribe to Sabiduría

Something has been moving through me for weeks. Not as a thought. As a dream. Water arriving night after night, insisting on being received. And I have learned slowly, the way you learn things that matter — that when something comes that persistently, you don't analyze it. You sit beside it. You listen. You let it teach you. In this episode, we explore Ko — water as a living presence in ancestral wisdom. Not as symbol. Not as resource. As a relative. As the womb that holds all transformation before it takes form in the world. This is not an episode about water. This is a ceremony with water. In this episode: What it means when the same dream finds multiple people at the same time The ancestral understanding of water as womb — the dark, fertile place where transformation happens before it is visible Why you are not meant to push through the dark toward the light A full ceremony: Womb of the Waters — for releasing what is leaving and receiving what is waiting Why the dark is not emptiness — it is gestation What you'll need for the ceremony: A bowl of water. A stone if you have one. A seed or flower petal. A candle. Your hands and your breath are enough if you have nothing else. This episode is for you if you are carrying grief that hasn't finished. If something is ending and something hasn't revealed itself yet. If you are tired of swimming toward wholeness and ready to be held instead. Ko (Water) is holding what you cannot hold alone. Free guide: Slow Living as a Way Home: A Guide to Remembering Your Natural Rhythm → https://antupewma.kit.com/3f81139283 Scottish Highlands Retreat, June 17–24, 2026 — seven days of ceremony, slowness, and the land. Learn More Here.

The way you move through the world IS the medicine. You've just stopped seeing it. A few days ago I stood in front of a room of university students who came expecting strategy, a roadmap, a plan for building something. What they received instead was something simpler and harder to name. It was how I move through the world. And the room went quiet in that particular way that happens when people recognize something they forgot they were looking for. Afterward I sat with it. Because when you are so deep inside your own way of being, you stop seeing it as anything remarkable. You think: this is just how I wake up. This is just how I hold a camera. This is just how I listen. Just. Just. Just. As if the sacred becomes invisible the moment it becomes yours. In this episode: The moment in a university hall that cracked something open, the life force that moves through how you are, not just what you do. A writing practice to help you name what you've been calling "just how I am" Why spring arriving right now is the perfect moment to remember what you're carrying 🌿 Free guide — Slow Living as a Way Home: A Guide to Remembering Your Natural Rhythm https://antupewma.kit.com/3f81139283 🎙 Listen everywhere: https://pod.link/1858667291 If something here touches you, feel free to share it with someone you love. Thank you for listening and simply being here. Your presence truly matters. And if this work has nourished you and you feel moved to reciprocate, you can support it here —> https://buy.stripe.com/fZu14m7dR6cc7rK4UYdMI0f

The world is heavy right now. And one of the most dangerous things we can do in a time of collective chaos is reach toward any community, just because it looks like belonging. Not every circle that forms in a crisis is your circle. In this episode, I share something tender and true, the years I spent trying to build community in spaces that drained me instead of held me. Spaces where the teachings felt borrowed, the depth wasn't there, or there was no elder present to hold what we were trying to carry together. And what changed when I finally found aligned community, people who had known real hardship, whose teachings had real roots. How my body softened. How I stopped performing belonging and started actually experiencing it. My elder's teaching holds the center of this episode: take witness, don't just observe. To witness is to feel what is happening. fully, with your whole body — without losing yourself in it. That is what our ancestors practiced. That is how they survived the hardest times together. And I offer you five ancestral practices for doing the same. In this episode: Why not every community that forms in a crisis is your community The difference between taking witness and just observing How aligned community becomes a container that holds what would otherwise be unbearable A plant tea ceremony to prepare your body before you gather — with rosemary, chamomile, rose, and cacao Ancestral breath as relationship, not technique Somatic movement for releasing what doesn't belong to you Writing as a way to speak what's on your heart when community isn't yet there Working with the earth to take witness with the land This episode is for you if you have ever felt more alone inside a community than outside of it. If you are searching for the circle that can actually hold you. If you want to show up for the people who matter, rooted, clear, and present. LINKS: Sol's medicine and guidance: https://www.instagram.com/intiwarmisol/ Listen on all podcast platforms: https://pod.link/1858667291 Join the newsletter community: slowlivinghome.substack.com Support this podcast — buy me a tesito: https://buy.stripe.com/fZu14m7dR6cc7rK4UYdMI0f

What if the thing you’ve been calling strength is actually just holding? In this episode, we explore what happens when we finally let our emotions move through us instead of storing them in the body — and I guide you through a simple water ceremony of release. If you’re tired in a way sleep can’t fix, this one is for you.

What if self-abandonment isn’t a personal failure, but leaving your own territory? A teaching on coming back to yourself, over and over again.

<p>For most of my life, earth was my teacher. It taught me how to root, how to ground, how to stay.</p><p>But there came a time when I was holding so tight, I forgot how to move.</p><p>That's when the wind arrived—insistent, almost rude in how it wouldn't let me ignore it.</p><p>And it taught me something I had forgotten: <strong>real strength isn't staying rigid. Real strength is knowing how to bend.</strong></p><p>In this episode, I share:</p><ul><li>The moment wind taught me I was holding too tight</li><li>What it means to listen to wind as a teacher, not just weather</li><li>Why wind clears not only the land, but the spirit</li><li>A guided practice to help you soften where you've been rigid</li></ul><p>I also share what my ancestors knew about wind—that it's not random. That it arrives when something needs to shift. That there are different winds, each bringing exactly what's needed.</p><p>This isn't about becoming soft or weak. This is about remembering: <strong>you are not meant to be fixed. You are meant to move.</strong></p><p>So this week, when you feel the wind—pause. Let it touch you. Ask it what it came to teach. And then... listen.</p><p><strong>Slow-Living as a Way Home</strong> is a space to breathe, to soften, and to return to the rhythm your ancestors trusted. If you're tired of rushing through your life, this is for you.</p><p><strong>[00:00]</strong> Intro: Wind as teacher, not weather<br><strong>[01:30]</strong> My story: When I was holding too tight<br><strong>[04:30]</strong> What wind carries (and what it clears)<br><strong>[05:30]</strong> The wisdom of the four winds<br><strong>[08:30]</strong> Guided practice: Listening to wind<br><strong>[14:30]</strong> Integration: What to take into your week</p>

<p>In this tender threshold between years, we explore what it means to live unrushed—not as an ideal, but as a practice of staying with yourself when the season asks something hard.</p><p>This episode honors the complexity of the holidays: the joy and the grief, the togetherness and the tension, the pressure to be ready for a new year when your body is asking you to rest.</p><p>Drawing on Mapuche wisdom and the concept of <em>küme mogen</em> (living in right relationship), we remember that rushing isn't just about speed—it's about being out of relationship with your body, your grief, and the season's natural pace.</p><p>Includes a gentle embodied practice for coming back to your own rhythm, even in the middle of everything.</p><p><strong>For those navigating loss, difficult family dynamics, or simply needing permission to move at your own pace—this one's for you, mija.</strong></p>

<p>In this episode, we explore slowness not as a luxury, but as ceremony—a way of returning to ourselves in a world that keeps asking for more. Through story, reflection, and gentle guidance, I share what it means to reclaim presence as a first-generation woman reconnecting with her ancestral rhythms. Together we walk through the core principles of slow living, turning everyday tasks into moments of intention and reverence. Whether you’re driving, moving through your day, or listening with both feet on the ground, this episode offers practical, embodied ways to slow down, breathe, and remember yourself again.</p><p>If this episode speaks to you, share it with someone who needs the reminder that they don’t have to rush their way through life.</p>