Episode 3: Bodies of History: Trauma, Nervous Systems, & Ancestry (The Grounding)
This episode explores the deep connection between ancestral trauma, somatic memory, and healing through breathwork and spiritual practices. In this profound conversation, Kaydee, a practitioner who works at the intersection of decolonial healing and somatic memory, shares her journey of embodiment, motherhood, and healing from trauma. With personal stories and practical insights on how to access and heal intergenerational wounds, emphasizing the importance of community, trust, and embodiment, she offers her wisdom on how we might reconnect with ourselves and our ancestors.For those seeking decolonial directions into ancestry and intergenerational trauma, and practices that may allow us to move through it with gentleness, in this conversation we explore -
The embodiment and disembodiment cycle
Trauma healing through capacity building and community
Feminine intuition as a guiding force
Tools for grounding and healing trauma
Whether you are here as a student of breathwork or a professional interested in Breathwork Facilitator Training by Inspire Breathwork, come sit with us in the marrow, where we re-learn how to breathe into a body that has been told for centuries that it isn't safe to exist.Connect with Kaydee:
Kaydee is a breathwork facilitator and Reiki practitioner, bridging decolonial healing practices and psychological research on trauma. She feels called to hold space and bear witness for women as they make sense of their experiences, reconnect with themselves, their stories, and their intuition, and cultivate safety in the body, trust in the inner voice, and a growing curiosity about healing beyond talking therapies.
Instagram: @homebody.archive
Watch the incredible, Scar, perform her poem titled “I was not raised by soft women”.She is a young black contemporary Performance Poet, Cultural Storyteller and Writer. And this poem is an honest reckoning with the women who sharpened themselves into weapons so that their daughters might finally have the luxury of laying the armor down.
