The Sacred Union Podcast

Bruce Parry - How Indigenous Societies Cultivate Egalitarianism Today

This conversation reveals that egalitarian societies exist today. Egalitarian societies are societies without the hierarchies that we know in our western culture today, with a different approach to power and community, whereas no-one governs over others. This is one of the ways how a civilisation beyond patriarchy could look like. We talk about how these indigenous tribes manage this egalitarian way of living and the desire for status and power. We generally touch on the world view that indigenous tribes have that is absent in the world today - and that would change our world if we were to adopt it.  Bruce Parry is an award winning documentary filmmaker specialising in films on globalisation, climate change and indigenous peoples. He became interested in direct democracy when making films about egalitarian societies and has spent the last ten years studying how to synthesise the tools, methods, and narratives of our ancestral past into the complex civilisations of today.  His documentary series for the BBC entitled Tribe, Amazon and Arctic, watched by over 5 million people, have shown Parry exploring extreme environments, living with remote indigenous peoples and highlighting many of the important issues being faced on the environmental frontline. Parry directed and produced his debut feature documentary for the big screen, TAWAI – A voice from the forest, released in 2017. The film takes a deeper look into some of the issues touched upon within his television programmes and the personal lessons which he has learnt from his explorations. Watch Tawai, the movie https://www.tawai.earth/ [https://www.tawai.earth/] Bruce Parry on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bruceparrytribe/ [https://www.instagram.com/bruceparrytribe/] His personal website http://www.bruceparry.com [http://www.bruceparry.com] Bibi Gratzer's Website [https://www.bibigratzer.com/] - Join my newsletter family and support this podcast Join the Free WhatsApp Community here [https://chat.whatsapp.com/FipdfIsJurYE6QXq3Scav6?mode=ems_copy_h_c] Relationship Alchemy [https://www.bibigratzer.com/relationship-alchemy] - Apply to join the most holistic couples program in the world  Sacred Sexuality Massage Course for Couples  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/sacred-sexuality-massage-course] Apply for Soul Initiation - a one-year mystery school for those wanting a peaceful, regenerative world  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/soulinitiation] Learn more about becoming a Collaborator & Affiliate of Soul Initiation  [https://www.canva.com/design/DAGzQWqzRd4/nzyB2pKwIFLBlDhtqpkOEw/edit?utm_content=DAGzQWqzRd4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton] Bibi Gratzer's Instagram  [https://www.instagram.com/thebibigratzer/]

Rawan Roshni - A Palestinian Woman on the Power of Our Voices and Living Our Ancestral Cultures

Rawan Roshni is a Palestinian/Balkan, Global Citizen, Arab Woman, based in Jordan, Waging Love across the world.  She uses her voice as an Artivist through her singing/songwriting and facilitation of brave spaces focusing her work in the SWANA region.  Middle East and North Africa Her group facilitation over the past decade has ranged from issues such as reclamation & remembrance of indigenous knowledge, conflict transformation, collective liberation & decolonization, catalyzing community, conscious relating & consent work, women's work and more!  She also works with people 1-on-1 to support them with Voice Liberation.  She fuses Sound, Movement and Intuitive Rituals as tools in her work, bringing elements such as group singing, sound work through vocalization, whirling dance, and intentional nature-based practices.  She has co-founded multiple interfaith and world music projects and most recently has been touring her solo tri-lingual live-looping Music & Poetry performance Al-Tuyoor: Messages from the Birds for 2 years across 7 countries and counting!  She began her journey with plant teachers in 2019 and is a humble student of the plantcestors, in service with her voice and as a Psychedelic Mentor, for the healing of our human species as but a part of our larger ecosystem of creation Listen to Rawan's Voice on Youtube [ https://www.youtube.com/@rawanroshni?si=hEa_LoPXsWD1WwTf] Rawan's Website [http://www.rawanroshni.com] Rawan's IG [https://www.instagram.com/rawanroshniofficial?igsh=ZWozM25temtudDQ5&utm_source=qr] #sacredunion #palestine #palestineandisraelwar #systemicinjustice #systemicchange #ancestralculture #findyourvoice Bibi Gratzer's Website [https://www.bibigratzer.com/] - Join my newsletter family and support this podcast Join the Free WhatsApp Community here [https://chat.whatsapp.com/FipdfIsJurYE6QXq3Scav6?mode=ems_copy_h_c] Relationship Alchemy [https://www.bibigratzer.com/relationship-alchemy] - Apply to join the most holistic couples program in the world  Sacred Sexuality Massage Course for Couples  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/sacred-sexuality-massage-course] Apply for Soul Initiation - a one-year mystery school for those wanting a peaceful, regenerative world  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/soulinitiation] Learn more about becoming a Collaborator & Affiliate of Soul Initiation  [https://www.canva.com/design/DAGzQWqzRd4/nzyB2pKwIFLBlDhtqpkOEw/edit?utm_content=DAGzQWqzRd4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton] Bibi Gratzer's Instagram  [https://www.instagram.com/thebibigratzer/]

Sivani Mata - The Sacred Union of Divine Feminine and Sacred Masculine

Sivani Mata is an artist who is moved by a sensory and elemental exploration of life. She does that through practices that evoke the liminal experience of trance-like states of consciousness, and the centring of the awareness in heart.  Sivani believes in this process of deep inner work as a way to cultivate a harmonic relationship with the Earth, and feels that these practices are a path to building the relationship of self love and acceptance which is the foundation to a healing loving relationship with the land. Sivani Mata is a student of bhakti yoga, and shares Music as Medicine (kirtan & prayersong), she facilitates Women’s Circles, where she goes deep into the cyclical nature of what it is to be woman, and offers online courses on the divine feminine, amongst other offerings.  Her website: https://www.sivanimata.co.uk/ [https://www.sivanimata.co.uk/] Bibi Gratzer's Website [https://www.bibigratzer.com/] - Join my newsletter family and support this podcast Join the Free WhatsApp Community here [https://chat.whatsapp.com/FipdfIsJurYE6QXq3Scav6?mode=ems_copy_h_c] Relationship Alchemy [https://www.bibigratzer.com/relationship-alchemy] - Apply to join the most holistic couples program in the world  Sacred Sexuality Massage Course for Couples  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/sacred-sexuality-massage-course] Apply for Soul Initiation - a one-year mystery school for those wanting a peaceful, regenerative world  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/soulinitiation] Learn more about becoming a Collaborator & Affiliate of Soul Initiation  [https://www.canva.com/design/DAGzQWqzRd4/nzyB2pKwIFLBlDhtqpkOEw/edit?utm_content=DAGzQWqzRd4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton] Bibi Gratzer's Instagram  [https://www.instagram.com/thebibigratzer/]

John Wolfstone - Group Intimacy: The collective wound of having lost our tribe and attempts to claim it back

John Wolfstone is a Rites of Passage Guide, Initiatory Facilitator, Mythopoetic Educator, and Wilderness Ritualist, devoted to the remembrance of soul, culture, and Earth. For over two decades, he has been guiding transformative processes that weave myth, movement, and ceremony into immersive rites of passage rooted in ancestral wisdom and animist reverence. His work is deeply informed by study and mentorship within Earth-based lineages, wilderness initiation, and regenerative community practices. He is the co-director of the award-winning documentary The Village of Lovers, and co-founder of the School of Mythopoetics—a training ground for soul initiation, cultural repair, and ceremonial leadership.He is also pursuing a Ph.D. in Wisdom Studies at Ubiquity University, with a focus on revitalizing rites of passage for a post-industrial world. His facilitation invites a return to deep belonging—with land, lineage, and purpose—and offers maps for becoming trustworthy humans in this time of profound cultural transition. Link to John’s website: https://www.thresholds.earth [https://www.thresholds.earth/] Link to John’s substack: https://johnwolfstone.substack.com [https://johnwolfstone.substack.com] The Village of Lovers https://thevillageoflovers.com [https://thevillageoflovers.com]  School of Mythopoetics https://www.schoolofmythopoetics.com [https://www.schoolofmythopoetics.com/] Bibi Gratzer's Website [https://www.bibigratzer.com/] - Join my newsletter family and support this podcast Join the Free WhatsApp Community here [https://chat.whatsapp.com/FipdfIsJurYE6QXq3Scav6?mode=ems_copy_h_c] Relationship Alchemy [https://www.bibigratzer.com/relationship-alchemy] - Apply to join the most holistic couples program in the world  Sacred Sexuality Massage Course for Couples  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/sacred-sexuality-massage-course] Apply for Soul Initiation - a one-year mystery school for those wanting a peaceful, regenerative world  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/soulinitiation] Learn more about becoming a Collaborator & Affiliate of Soul Initiation  [https://www.canva.com/design/DAGzQWqzRd4/nzyB2pKwIFLBlDhtqpkOEw/edit?utm_content=DAGzQWqzRd4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton] Bibi Gratzer's Instagram  [https://www.instagram.com/thebibigratzer/]

Mac Macartney - Remembering Your Indigenous Roots

Mac Macartney is the founder of Embercombe, a 50-acre estate with charitable status on the edge of Dartmoor National Park in the UK. Embercombe’s mission is to inspire, and empower people to live in close relationship with nature and co-create a regenerative, flourishing future for all species. He is a speaker and mentor, as well as the author of two books. "The Children's Fire" reveals Britain’s tribal past and the animate world we once inhabited and calls to remember the ancient ways and to making our decisions based on the future generations.  "Finding Earth, Finding Soul: The Invisible Path to Authentic Leadership" vividly asserts the power of imagination, the joy of walking our own way and the profound intimacy of finding relationship with others and with life. Learn more about Mac's work here: https://macmacartney.com/ [https://macmacartney.com/] Here is Embercombe's website: https://www.embercombe.org/ [https://www.embercombe.org/] Apply or learn more about Right Relations: https://www.bibigratzer.com/right-relations-initiation [https://www.bibigratzer.com/right-relations-initiation] Bibi Gratzer's Website [https://www.bibigratzer.com/] - Join my newsletter family and support this podcast Join the Free WhatsApp Community here [https://chat.whatsapp.com/FipdfIsJurYE6QXq3Scav6?mode=ems_copy_h_c] Relationship Alchemy [https://www.bibigratzer.com/relationship-alchemy] - Apply to join the most holistic couples program in the world  Sacred Sexuality Massage Course for Couples  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/sacred-sexuality-massage-course] Apply for Soul Initiation - a one-year mystery school for those wanting a peaceful, regenerative world  [https://www.bibigratzer.com/soulinitiation] Learn more about becoming a Collaborator & Affiliate of Soul Initiation  [https://www.canva.com/design/DAGzQWqzRd4/nzyB2pKwIFLBlDhtqpkOEw/edit?utm_content=DAGzQWqzRd4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton] Bibi Gratzer's Instagram  [https://www.instagram.com/thebibigratzer/]