Healing our bodies, ancestries, and the earth, with Lakshmi Venugopal

Lakshmi Venugopal is the founder of Inner Climate Academy and an experienced facilitator of Deep Ecology and the Work That Reconnects. Through chronic illness and the discovery of her ancestral past, Lakshmi’s story illuminates how individual health and ancestral healing are deeply intertwined with the health and healing of the Earth. Taking us on a profound journey from India to Australia and back again, Lakshmi shares how embodied remembering ignited deeper relations with the living world.

In Lakshmi’s We As Nature story, she shares:

• Her adventures growing up in Kerala, South India, and how local ecological destruction gave rise to anger that dominated her teenage years
• The chance encounter that led her to the work of Joanna Macy, enabling her to find the grief and love buried within her anger
• The story of a quest through Kerala listening to women’s prayers and stories, which ignited an embodied understanding of apology’s power to restore relations
• How her struggle with endometriosis led her to understand the interconnections between chronic pain, ancestry, and the living world—a journey that eventually inspired her menstruation work with rural women in India, and paved the way for her founding of the Inner Climate Academy
• Her experience living in the international township of Auroville, East India, recognised as the first and only internationally endorsed ongoing experiment in human unity and transformation of consciousness

You can find out more about Lakshmi’s work at the Inner Climate Academy here.

Credits
Creative Producer & Host: Nathalie Joel-Smith on behalf of Flourishing Diversity
Music Composer and Sound Producer: Dom Martin
Live Event Production: Katy Molloy,  Laura Tyley & Andrea Langlois
Illustrations: Rohama Malik

About Flourishing Diversity
We As Nature was recorded during an online gathering hosted by Flourishing Diversity.

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