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Rakel is 40 years old and was born and raised in Ittoqqortoormiit in northeastern Greenland. When she was 4 years old, she told her mother that she would become a shaman. Growing up she always heard the stories about how they came from a shamanic family, and she always asked deep questions to what it meant for their descendants. In 2012, she started her journey to actually learn about how her ancestors lived and saw the universe as a whole. She left society and went into nature and learned what nature, Silap aappaa (the other worlds) had to teach us. In 2019, she received her healer name, which is Rakel, and was accepted into the ancient lineage as an angakoq. Ever since, she has learned how to bring the spirits to the modern human and together figure out how to apply the ancient knowledge into a modern world. These profound methods of healing that are more relevant than ever, is what Rakel uses to help people to find themselves as souls, which has been so forbidden and hidden in many ways. “A soul, that is whole, is in balance with the world and in balance with themselves.” Rakel is featured in a new film that will be out soon titled “The Eternal Song.” More information here: https://theeternalsong.org/movie/the-eternal-song/
Music selection
1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song)
Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters
Album: Tahi (1993)
Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand)
2. Song Title: Enough
Artist: Kingfisha
Album: Kingfisha (2012)
Label: 886788 Records DK
3. Song: Dear Ko (To Ko the Regt.) (feat. Jim Doney)
Artist: Nacho Moldanado
Album: Point Zero (feat. Jim Doney), 2021
Label: Nacho Moldanado
4. Song Title: Creancient
Artist: Xavier Rudd & The United Nations
Album: Nanna (2015)
Label: Virgin Music
Production Credits
Karen Ramirez
Studio Engineer
Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota)
Host, Executive Producer & Audio Editor