THE WERK Season 2 Episode 02: Dear Good White People With Dra Rocio Rosales Meza
Release Date: 11/25/2021
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Hello beautiful community, this is our last episode of The Werk Podcast. We want to thank you for supporting our passion project. We've learned so much from the guests we've interviewed and also from you. We are looking forward to integrating everything we've learned to co-create and re-imagine a better future for all. We believe that the dismantling and deconstructing work still needs to be done but we are both in a season of our lives when we want to take some rest, imagine, lean into pleasure, and play. Please keep in touch with us through our personal social media platforms. We...
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info_outlineDra. Rocio’s work has had a global impact to evolve the collective consciousness. Dra. Rocio’s work is deeply rooted in Indigenous wisdom, medicine, and worldview. While she is highly sought after, she only works with those she feels a deep resonance with and those that align with and understand the work we are tasked with at this prophetic time. Dra. Rocio believes in the prophecies of many Indigenous nations, including the Condor and Eagle prophecy of the Q’ero nation which names this time as the time that humanity must evolve and shift into sacred reciprocity with Mother Earth and all of Creation to end the times of chaos and harm.
Dra. Rocio’s work is at the intersections of decolonizing, spirituality, and wellness. She walks and works in between the earthly and spiritual realms. Dra. Rocio is able to see beyond this ordinary reality to bring forth the highest timelines and visions into our earthly reality. She is grateful to her teachers, Pampamesayoq Don Alejandro Apaza and medicine woman Marilu Shinn for helping her REMEMBER.
Dra. Rocio practices energy medicine & “Shamanic” earth based medicine. While she does decolonial work, that is only part of her work. Dra. Rocio views her decolonial work as the passageway to restore harmony and balance and integrates energy & earth based medicine through her offerings as she believes it provides the deep roots that are needed to dive into this intense work or it can become destructive.
At the core, Dra. Rocio’s work is about healing from humanity’s collective shadow, colonization and remembering we are all peoples of the Earth carrying medicine that will help us to remember the sacred ways. She deeply believes in dismantling the oppressive colonial paradigm as it is this very system that has made us unwell, that has uprooted, fragmented, and disconnected us from Spirit in all things, from our Great Mother, from self, and each other. As a medicine woman, Dra. Rocio knows that collective healing and liberation begins with healing self and unlearning harmful programming so that we can then act in ways to restore the times of harmony and balance.
Dra. Rocio’s work can be described as decolonial healing and decolonial shadow work™ as it addresses layers at both the conscious and unconscious levels. Her work also weaves somatic work, energy work, and deep healing at the levels of the spirit and psyche Dra. Rocio offers group guidance, self-paced teachings, weekend intensives and facilitates healing to all peoples that believe a better world is possible and feel called to doing their part to co-create it.
Dra. Rocio can be found @dr.rosalesmeza on Instagram, @drrosalesmeza on Facebook, and on www.drrosalesmeza.com. If you feel called to the work, you are invited to join her weekly newsletter on her website to receive weekly decolonial healing messages, channeled messages, journal prompts, and to be amongst the first to learn when her offerings become available. Whte spiritual, anti-racist, empathic folx that are ready & deeply called to do the deeper decolonial shadow work™ are invited to the unlearning and healing from the white colonial mind weekend intensive, www.whitecolonialmind.com . May we heal together and get free.
- Dra Rocio comes back on for part 2 in continuation of our first conversation because she has noticed the colonizer shapeshifting.
- She gives examples of how it shows up and what she has been witnessing.
- Getting to the root of new age spirituality and the ways in which it causes harm.
- What she means by "The Good White People" and why they are committing the most harm.
- Dra Rocio shares why decolonial work is spiritual and different from anti-racism work.
- From her Q'ero Inca lineage, what are the prophecies of the New Earth?
- How folx of color also uphold the colonial paradigm.
- We have to be able to do both the decolonial and spiritual work to create the New Earth.
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