Earth Ancients Granddaughter Crow: Shamanism and your Shadow
Sep 17, 2025
Granddaughter Crow (Dr. Joy Gray) is a Navajo medicine woman and author whose teachings on shamanism and shadow work are both profound and accessible. She introduces a four-step process to engage with our shadows, utilizing the guidance of animal totems like the raven, snake, owl, and wolf. Listeners learn to recognize and respect their ancestral traumas, and discover practical tools such as meditations and journaling prompts. Granddaughter Crow's insights help transform trauma into beauty, encouraging personal empowerment through self-shamaning.
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Embodied Shadow Work Beats Pure Theory
- Granddaughter Crow frames shadow work as embodied, natural-world practice rather than purely intellectual therapy.
- She invites readers to learn through lived, visceral connection with the body and environment.
Detect Trauma With A Body Scan
- Do a body scan to detect trauma: notice feet, knees, spine and any disconnection from your body.
- Use those somatic signals as practical indicators that a trigger or trauma is present.
Ancestral Trauma Lives In The Body
- DNA and historical trauma live in the body's structure and can cause visceral reactions to ideological triggers.
- Granddaughter Crow realized ancestral trauma after feeling uncontrollable physical responses in a conversation.
