Chaski K’uychi
Bio
(They/Them)
Two-Spirit Medicine Being🍯
Death/Grief Priestexx/Doula 💀
Spirit-Led Dancer🧚🏽
Ex K-3 Teacher 👩🏽🏫
📍Ancestral lands🇧🇴🏳️🌈
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Stories (11/0)
"Dear Spirit," - "Love, Chaski <3"
Y’all, I get BIG feelings, a LOT of feelings, and I get them OFTEN. Before I had tools and skills to support myself in making sense of my moody spells, I used to feel such urgency in “getting rid” of the emotional distress that I would just turn to and dump on whoever I had access to - which was typically my sister or my best friend - and they have such big hearts that they’d hold space for me and my distress every single time but I noticed that I began to feel a dependency on them “to make me feel better.” I eventually learned it also wasn’t fair for me to go to them for all my emotional distress - our family members and besties are not our therapists and it’s not fair to expect them to provide all that emotional labor (for free) on demand just because they love us. And yes, I still seek support from my loved ones every now and then but with an awareness and respect for their capacity, space, time, and boundaries. And I definitely work with my own healer to receive that guidance and emotional support for the more difficult experiences I’m going through. However, journaling is where I turn to for most of my emotional self-support.
By Chaski K’uychiabout a year ago in Journal
Energy Hygiene for Classroom Educators
In the 6 years that I was a teacher there wasn’t a day that I wasn’t plagued with anxiety. Anxiety was my norm - it was my home frequency at all times. My anxiety levels were the highest in the moments when my “most misbehaved” students were acting up, throwing tantrums, or literally physically fighting with other students. Sometimes it seemed like my students could tell how anxious I was and they fed off my fear. Back then I had no awareness of energy dynamics - I didn’t know how to settle and maintain my energy hygiene let alone a classroom full of 20-30 tiny human bodies struggling with trauma lingering in their energy fields.
By Chaski K’uychiabout a year ago in Education
"Sin Llorar"
This August 2022 was my Awichu’s 2nd Death Anniversary - I never publicly shared what his life, death, and our relationship meant to me and how much it all impacted me. His death abruptly woke me up to my purpose. The night he died I was so distraught I couldn’t physically be there by his side (I was always supposed to be there but we were freshly into the pandemic and I was based in CA and his death was so short notice that it just didn’t make sense for me to emergency travel to Bolivia). So in his final moments I wrote him a long heartfelt letter to soothe him and ease his transition into death - I didn’t know it then but I was intuitively death doula-ing even from such a long distance. I also didn’t realize it then, but I sort of wrote his eulogy through that letter even though there wasn’t ever a space or time to honor his eulogy publicly.
By Chaski K’uychi2 years ago in Humans
On changing our destinies: the search for love...
Reading bell hooks' work was the first time my spirit felt so fired up to express myself through writing. I first read her works on love when I was 23 or 24 right after a pretty devastating breakup. The quote below stood out to me the most among the countless memorable bell hooks quotes and inspired my very first spirit-led written expression.
By Chaski K’uychi2 years ago in Humans
Honoring Rage as the Sacred Teacher that It Is
When I started my teaching profession as a preservice teacher in 2013 I didn’t know how I would cope through my moon cycles once I started teaching full time. I mean, teachers barely get time for quick pee breaks. So I decided to get a Nexplanon birth control implanted in my arm. I went without my moon cycles for the entirety of my teaching career and decided to get it removed in 2020. It was physically and spiritually excruciating to become reacquainted with my moon cycles. But in this year and a half of remembering my moon cycle flow, I have learned that my moon time is such a powerful time for intentional introspection and healing. My womb brings up random unprocessed emotions to be felt, honored, released, healed, and integrated. So this past moon cycle a lot of sadness and sorrow came up because my Roses babies were on my heart. Rage was on my heart. My babies’ rage was on my heart. I hella wept for them.
By Chaski K’uychi3 years ago in Education
On Healing my Sexuality
Last month we experienced a Full Moon Eclipse in Sagittarius and this astrological energy surfaced a lot of shadows asking to be acknowledged, mourned, released, and healed. The astrology impacts us in unique ways based on where the astrological events happen in our birth charts. That eclipse took place in my 8th house of sexuality and occult shit and the last time an eclipse happened in this area of my chart was 2010-2012. So the astrology asked me to reflect on prominent themes in my life at that time. And at that point in my journey I was finishing up my first year of college and I was beginning to explore my (partnered) sexuality.
By Chaski K’uychi3 years ago in Pride
Reflections on Reflections
Y’all ever have those dreams where you’re dating that ex once again - but this time around it’s a fantasy of how everything turns into a happily ever after? A couple weeks ago I had one of those dreams about my most toxic ex ever: my career in teaching - which lasted 7 years and ended in June of 2020. In this healing year of “professional singledom” and unemployment I came to a sobering awareness of how I was in a codependent relationship with my career in teaching. This dream encouraged deep self reflection which eventually led to some healing revelations that I’ll share in this article.
By Chaski K’uychi3 years ago in Journal
Weep & Mourn Your Way to "Zen"
For the past 8 months I've been on an intentional healing journey learning how to BE in my body and stay present with all of her painful and uncomfortable sensations - which, is hard AF considering the fact that I've been viscerally realizing that I am an empath and a Highly Sensitive Person. The more I sit with ALL the sensations that come through this vessel of mine, the more I can feel and tune into the emotional, spiritual, and even physical pain and discomfort of those around me - which wreaks havoc on my nervous system (D:) Along my journey I've learned that reaching a state of "zen" takes my body, mind, and spirit hellaaa time and heartwork.
By Chaski K’uychi3 years ago in Psyche
We gotta feel it to heal it
I fuckin love astrology. The more I learn about my birth chart, the more I understand my self, my past, my purpose, and my personal challenges & contradictions. My sun is in Libra in the 6th House of Work & Health and my moon is directly opposite of it in Aries in the 12th House of the Subconscious mind. Ever since I was a child I always struggled with my physical, mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual health. Astrology has helped me understand why and how health and healing is at the core of my purpose. You see, your moon sign represents how you experience and process emotions IN your body - so having an Aries moon means I experience emotions intensely and if I don't honor them and release them they bubble up as physical pain or uncomfortable sensations in my body - and having my moon in the 12th House of the Subconscious mind means I carried and experienced a lot more emotions in my subconscious that I wasn't ever aware of.
By Chaski K’uychi3 years ago in Psyche
