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Exiled & Rising: Trauma Recovery & Somatic Healing

Decolonizing Prayer: What It Means in Healing Faith, Body, and Belonging

28 Dec 2025

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The Body Is Where God Speaks. In this episode of Exiled & Rising, Ana Mael — somatic experiencing therapist for trauma recovery and ancestral healing — explores what it truly means to decolonize prayer. For centuries, prayer was shaped by systems of domination — religions that demanded obedience, erased Indigenous and ancestral practices, and taught that the Divine could only be reached through worthiness or submission. To decolonize prayer is to reclaim it: to bring the sacred back into the body, the land, and the breath. Ana guides listeners through a gentle reflection on how prayer can become an act of embodied liberation rather than control. She explores how trauma, faith, and colonial conditioning often intertwine — and how we can begin to pray not from fear, but from belonging. In this episode, you’ll discover how to: Reclaim prayer as a living, breathing dialogue with the Divine. Restore your relationship with your body, ancestors, and earth as sacred sources of guidance. Recognize and release the inherited beliefs that say you must be “pure” or “worthy” to be loved. Learn how somatic healing and spirituality can merge into a prayer practice rooted in justice, tenderness, and autonomy. Ana teaches that to decolonize prayer is to return to intimacy with life itself — to remember that divinity was never outside of you. It’s within your heartbeat, your lineage, your breath. “The body is not an obstacle to God — it is where God speaks.”       Chapters (00:00:01) - What Decolonizing Prayer Means(00:13:28) - Decolonizing Prayer for the Soul

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