Hello everyone, in this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Tayria Ward about “Awakening the Indigenous Sensibility in the Modern Western Psyche”. Amongst other things we talk about her chance meeting with Malidoma Some at an event and how it awakened something within her, leaving the ministry, Pacifica, Thomas Berry - the ‘Great Conversation’' with the natural world, nature alive, dreaming as a way back in, you have to release the wildness in your song, openness, dadirri(deep listening), and enchantment and many other things.
Tayria Ward has a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. After 30 years of living in the Los Angeles area where she raised her family, working for 20 years as a minister, and later as a professor at the undergraduate and graduate levels, in 2004 she moved to the ancient mountains of Western North Carolina to found Bridging Worlds Mountain Retreat Center, where she lead regular retreats and vision quests for 9 years. In 2013 Tayria moved into Asheville, specializing in dream analysis, depth psychological and spiritual mentoring. Along with her current major interest regarding recovering the value of working with our Dreams and understanding the nature of the Dreamtime, Tayria’s doctoral work led her into a passion for the study of the ways of sensing and knowing carried by indigenous peoples.
Awakening the Indigenous Sensibility in the Modern Western Psyche with Tayria Ward