DeeplyRooted: Remembering Back into Ourselves with KAILEA FREDERICK /173

Photo by Koa Kalish

Photo by Koa Kalish

Deeply Rooted is a new offering devoted to inviting relief, balance and abundance into our lives during these uncertain times. We've brought together some amazing folks who we feel are wise stewards of Earth, spirit, community and bodily wisdom who will share a variety of grounding practices and coping tools to lend support during this unprecedented time where it can be easy to feel overwhelmed.

This week, Kailea Frederick invites us to open space in our busy everyday lives to harmonize our body and breath with the deep rhythms of Earth. Kailea offers a poetry reading woven with simple movements to reawaken our inseparable connection to all of Creation. This offering honors the hard-working mothers and caregivers who provide care so generously, and who are so deserving of moments to cultivate wellness.

Follow our Deeply Rooted releases, coming your way on Mondays, to find solace and awaken inspiration through guided meditations, poetry and prose readings, questions for deep inquiry, story-telling, musical performances and more. May these offerings nourish your inner sanctuary and foster resilience, empowerment and liberation.

We draw deep into our wells in order to hold and to soothe and to feed…
— Kailea Frederick / Deeply Rooted, Episode 173
Kailea Frederick by Koa Kalish

Kailea Frederick by Koa Kalish

About Kailea

 Kailea Frederick is a mother and First Nations womxn dedicated to supporting individuals of all cultures in remembering their ties to the earth. She was raised off the grid in Maui, Hawai`i which forever imprinted in her the importance of quiet spaces. She feels raised by and intimately tied to Honua, our island earth. 

A graduate of the International Youth Initiative Program, and a Spiritual Ecology and Boards & Commissions Leadership Fellow, she has served as a youth delegate twice to the United Nations Climate Change conferences. Currently, Kailea is a co- Executive Director with Black Mountain Circle, the Editor for Loam, and a Climate Commissioner for the city of Petaluma. Last year in tandem with Kate Weiner, she released her first book, Compassion in Crisis, a primer on learning to live in the anthropocene. You can contact her through earthisohana.com.

You can follow Kailea’s work by visiting www.earthisohana.com or following her on Instagram @earthisohana.

♫ Music by Pura Fe and Lea Thomas. The poem “Remember” was written by Joy Harjo. Kailea Frederick created & read “A Meditation for Remembering Back into Ourselves.”



References & Recommendations

Read Kailea Frederick and Kate Weiner’s book Compassion In Crisis: Learning to Live in an Age of Disaster: Compassion in Crisis is a study in self-sovereignty. In the midst of disaster, many communities of care have emerged independent of government intervention to take care of their own, rebuild homes, and nourish their extended network of kin. As we work together to navigate disaster and confront change, we hope that this offering will hold space for your grief, inspire you to cultivate resilience, and connect you to adaptation strategies.

100% of profits from this digital version of Compassion in Crisis will go towards supporting working families with filling the meal gap during this pandemic.