Indigenous victory in Brazil! After 34 years, the Cinta Larga, Zoró (Pangyjej) and Suruí (Paiter) Indigenous peoples, who live in Aripuanã Park, received a favorable ruling from Brazil's Supreme Federal Court recognizing their territory.
The old paradigm of coaching and triggering folks into transformation causes more harm to the client when they’re entering into their healing journey already traumatized and dysregulated.
In the Brazilian Amazon, Indigenous Zoró territory is threatened by mining interests and illegal logging. But @mongabay reports that for Zoró communities, harvesting and selling the Brazil nut is a "weapon against deforestation": https://t.co/CCU68JF4RL
We’re glamorizing an industry of performance enhancing supplementation + glorifying “bio hackers” that sell the promise of “optimal functional cognitive and physical improvement” when the true medicine may just be opting out of the propaganda and truly loving yourself as you are.
Some still hold onto a myth that Indigenous people are uneducated, uncivilized + primitive.
Unlearn that.
#Indigenous folk that honor their ancestry, medicines, musicality, cultural identity + beliefs hold the keys for global revolution in ecology, mental health, art, y más