Radically Alive Women – Details, episodes & analysis

"I don’t say I found my truth, but I found my way." Ina Mehrfert is an elder and part of the Kiva ceremony for the Healing of the Earth, a ceremony taking place worldwide with elders from across the globe. (https://kiva.family)

Ina grew up in the German Democratic Republic, Eastern Germany, which is now part of the Federal Republic of Germany. From early childhood, she sought the connection with nature, and communicated with the forest.

In this episode, she speaks about the indigeneity of Women in Europe and Germany, about radically trusting and following one's calling, and about the necessity for humans to connect with their roots and gain power from there. "I am here to serve Mother Earth and my sisters and also my brothers, because they are also searching."

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At the age of 19, Ina followed the call of the North wind to go to Russia. She walked there by feet, without a plan of where to go, and met her first shamanic teacher. Her job since has been to help humans reconnect to their peace, their ancestors, their roots. Listen in to hear Ina speak of connecting with the grandmothers, letting go of “baggage” in the form of stories, of suffering, of dreaming, of living in abundance, ritual in everyday life, and the importance of intention. She gives some practical tips of how you can connect with your grandmothers and integrate ritual into your everyday life, too. Ina offers sweat lodges, Celtic ceremonies, coaching and more. You can find her here: https://www.instagram.com/ina.mehrfert/ “We have our stories. But I am not here to carry this story. I close the book of suffering, I close the book of violence. (…) Now we have the time where we need to close these books. And we will not open a new chapter. No, we open new books.”

“We are in a beautiful dream. We can choose to live our traumas, but we also have dreams. And I encourage everybody to live the dream, where we are calling for this new world, where we all live in abundance, where we all live together, nourishing each other, respecting each other.”"I really love the roots of the German Women. They have fire in their ass." This interview was held by Julia Neumann. www.radicallyalivewomen.com/edgecast www.julia-neumann.com www.kiva.family Kiva ceremony is going on a pilgrimage to bring the Healing ceremony to all 5 continents, starting in Italy in February 2024. You can donate here: https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/kivafamily

"I am very aware that this is not just about my personal stuff, this is much bigger. And I didn't come back in order to just live a more or less good life. There is more, and I am on my way to find out what that is."

Dagmar Thürnagel is a Possibility Management Coach, and Trainer, Feelings PractitionerIllusion Slayer, Researcher and a Peaceful Warrioress, who speaks in this episode about Healing.

In June 2023, Dagmar had a recreational sports accident that changed her life. From a broken leg she caught gas gangrene, a highly dangerous infection of soft tissue that led to the amputation of one of her legs. For about 3 months, Dagmar's survival was at risk - her chances to live were at 20%. Since then, she is learning life afresh.

In this episode, Dagmar shares raw of her experience, her choice to live, as well as the challenges and the possibilities that lay in her accident and that are present in her Healing journey. She also speaks of Healing and the interrelation between healing individually and healing of the collective.

"Healing in itself cannot be personal. It's always connected with the collective, with the community, with all humans (...)"

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Listen in to be inspired by Dagmar's Clarity, Courage, Love for Research and Life, her Authenticity, Aliveness, and Wisdom.

Topics touched upon are:

• waking up to Love 
• incarnating, coming fully into the physical body, and the physical body as a teacher
• becoming fully present with what is now
• the power of choosing what is and surrendering
• Healing and Healing Happening
• being on the learning spiral
• finding the middle in polarities, and the strength in the middle
• The gift of sword work
• purpose, and destiny.

For more information:

Aufbruch Trainings (Dagmar Thürnagel and Samoto Hallinger) - www.aufbruch-trainings.de

Peaceful Warrior Training - www.aufbruch-trainings.de/peaceful-warrior-training/

Possibility Management - www.possibilitymanagement.org

Feelings Practitioner - www.feelingspractitioner.org

Radically Alive Women - www.radicallyalivewomen.com

This interview was held by Julia Neumann.

In the late 1970s, at the age of 17, Olive Jones joined a communal living experiment in Nelson, living in a kind of Anarchy with each other and off the land. Later, that Community purchased a piece of land in Motueka Valley that came to be known as Graham Downs.

There, they experimented radically with communal living: anybody could join whenever they wanted for as long as they wanted. They farmed the land with horses, milked cows, butchered their own meat, built their own houses, made their own clothing, all without any governance structure.

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Olive became a pillar of that community and lived there for 13 years. She wrote the book "Commune: Chasing a utopian dream in Aotearoa" about her experience of that time, as well as about the deterioration and falling apart of the Community. In this episode, Olive shares some of her life experiences:

- How they thought they were creating an alternative culture but ended up reproducing patriarchy;

- What did not work;

- How living in Community requires a level of emotional maturity and conflict resolution processes;

- How choosing an interesting life over a comfortable life makes life worth living;

- How women playing small contributed to the patriarchal culture;

- How women's work can be invisible;

and more.

Today, Olive lives in Auckland and is a trustee of the Trust holding the land.

This interview was held by Julia Neumann, who spent several weeks of living on the land in March & April 2024.

Read more about:

Archiarchy: https://archiarchy.mystrikingly.com

Guardianship: https://earthguardian.mystrikingly.com

Radical Responsibility: https://radicalresponsibility.mystrikingly.com

In this episode we bring you the voice of Julia Butterfly Hill. Between 1997 and 1999, Julia sat for over two years in a 1,000 year old Redwood tree („Luna“), taking a stand to protect this tree and the ancient forest from clearing. She and her team succeeded. This interview goes beyond this remarkable event. Julia speaks with immense Clarity about what it takes to be a person who is able to be authentically herself, and from her heart-knowing to be a Radical Stand for life on this planet. She speaks into the necessity for collaboration as Women, despite being raised in a culture that champions competition. Julia’s words call forth the innate power within each person to make a real difference in this world. How important it is to go continuously beyond your comfort zone, lean into your fear, trust your gut, and be willing to make mistakes. It is in those mistakes that we learn and collectively grow our capacities as a human species, in that a different culture is born. Redwoods are trees that grow as a community, not as individual trees. Can you hear their ancient wisdom lacing the words of Julia, their ancient hearts beating in the silence? Julia is available for coaching, interviews and speaking engagements, https://juliabutterflyhill.com.

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Poem “Women and the Earth”, by Julia Butterfly Hill. From her Poetry book “Becoming”, available for purchase here: https://juliabutterflyhill.com/product/becoming-e-book/

You are afraid of my darkness

because that.

is where

the magic is held.

You cannot control it,

so you destroy it

and oppress it

and use a book written long ago

as your excuse

and then blame it on the women...

the loss of the Eden which is me.

See, I am the Goddess...

See, I am the Goddess,

the part of your God

that you wish to get rid of

because I hold the magic...

in the dark, moist caverns

I lie and live and thrive.

I am the womb

of life's gestation.

I am the darkness

that holds the space for the light.

We could not see the stars

without the night.

Those green shoots,

the children of tomorrow,

they are held within

my darkest depths

until they are called forth.

I am the understanding of balance.

I am the knowing of gods and goddesses.

I am the Great Mystery,

and it is this uncertainty

that scares you.

I would rather grab hands

with thousands,

run off cliffs

to be swallowed by the sea,

than to give up

the magic

that is me.

I will be consumed by the fire

that you thought would kill me,

and I will come back

stronger than before.

I am the phoenix

arising from that flame.

And I will hold the hands of thousands, emerging from the seas,

wetlands, deserts, prairies, caverns, mountains, and trees.

and I will call forth

the magic

that is me.

This interview was made possible by donations of a group of Possibility Managers, in order to honour Julia’s stand. Possibility Management is a context for authentic initiation into adulthood. https://possibilitymanagement.org.

Annika Möller-Nilsson opens a vast space to explore being Women. Annika Korsten takes this doorway with passion, courage and fierce Love. What follows is part transmission, part recount and part research fresh from Annika Korsten's discoveries of choosing to radically rely on Women for her Healing and Evolution.

What emerges when Women choose to radically rely on each other? Well, a totally new culture is possible.

Topics covered include:

• New Map of sisterhood, speaking before knowing, letting healing happen.

• Going through the underworld to find something other than gossiping and resenting and competing with other women.

• Calling through the wisdom and intuition of women by radically trusting the impulses of each woman.

• The Everythingness of women.

• Staying close to reality to source new steps for Evolution.

• Jobs as something to be constantly rediscovered and invented.

• Celebrating life as a choice.

• Learning to say what I want.

• Finding your own authentic Yes's and No's.

• Unreasonable requests

• Not enmeshing, instead travelling as a wave.

• Switching to thriving.

• Consciously being with cycles of the womb as a woman.

Annika Möller-Nilsson is the host of the podcast: Coming Down to Earth. We are publishing here with Annika's permission.

Gratitude to ⁠Maria Diaz⁠ for her initial research into what it means to be a particle or a wave, and to Millicent Haughey for preparing this episode for publication.

Ana Norambuena held space for the Women of Earth Laboratory from 13-17 March 2024 in Kina, New Zealand.

She speaks about what happened, the shifts that occurred, the Sisterhood that was awakened, the fierce Love that Women reclaimed for moving forward, the radical commitment to following impulses and the Nothingness required to hold space for the emergence of an Unfolding of Everything in chaos.

She reveals especially the lie in patriarchy that Women are alone. Without that lie, with Women collaborating, being together, patriarchy stands no chance.

In one of the processes that Ana shares about, all the Women declared, not orchestrated, at the same time:  

"Withdrawing my Love ends here."

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And as Ana points out: A Woman's Love is not just sweet. It is fierce.

We need your Love, your fierce Love, dear Women.

To gain access to Women's Laboratories, you will need to attend an Expand the Box Training first. Find all Trainings on offer in New Zealand here: possibilitymanagement.nz, or globally here: possibilitymanagement.org

The interview was held space for by Julia Neumann, julia-neumann.com.

"I think the authority of us Women to authorize ourselves to be that fierceness, unpredictability of Everything is something that in our heart we are deeply longing for. And no one can give this authorization for us to be Everything."

You may remember Gabriela Fagundes from one of our earlier episodes (Listen in here).

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Meet this transformed Woman and listen to her legends from Women of Earth Lab, a Women's Laboratory that happened in New Zealand from 13-17 March 2024.

Gabriela shares especially how she came to experience being Everything as a Woman, with other Women, decolonizing her body, and encountering the tension of Creation, which is distinct from the pressure that she knows from trying to be a better man than the men.

Find Gabriela here: https://www.gabrielafagundes.com/en

This interview was held by Julia Neumann

https://www.julia-neumann.com

Find out more:

www.possibilitymanagement.nz

www.radicallyalivewomen.com

startoverxyz.mystrikingly.com

Josine Rolina is fresh out of the Women of Earth Laboratory, a 5 days transformatory space that took place in Kina, New Zealand from 13-17 March 2024.

She shares fresh from her experience of being with Women in radical Sisterhood, how raging with Women woke her up, and how unknown intimacy became possible through Women owning their underworld.

Josine takes a stand for your authentic No.

Best to listen in for yourself.

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Rage Club is the place where you get to access your conscious Anger, for your Clarity, your Yes and your No. Find more here: rageclub.mystrikingly.com

www.possibilitymanagement.nz

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The interview was held by Julia Neumann, julia-neumann.com.

Raj Dahiya was born in India and today lives in Motueka, New Zealand. He runs "BeetRoot Groceries" there, a store with a range of organic and gluten free foods and a large selection of refill - to reduce waste.

We were curious about what he shared about the changes in Village life in India over the past 30 years, as it seems relevant also to what we witness in Western cultures.

Listen in for clear observations on the implications of lost connection to Village life in many facets - from pollution to financing.

While RAW is not about returning to the past, human connection and collaboration is an important aspect of creating a regenerative culture, for life to thrive.

The interview was held by Julia Neumann.

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Ana Norambuena is a Possibility Management Trainer and Trainer Trainer and the main spaceholder for Possibility Management in New Zealand.

In this short epsiode, she shares what motivates her to hold spaces for Women, and for Women and Men, to collaborate, and in which ways she goes first.

"I want Archiarchy to thrive."

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Interview and edit:

Julia Neumann, www.julia-neumann.com