RETURNING TO RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: ANIMALS, CEREMONY, AND THE WISDOM OF OUR REMEMBERING WITH ABIGAIL HINDS

There is a way of being that remembers.

A way of living that is not separate from the Earth, the animals, or the unseen layers of life—but deeply in relationship with them.

A way that honors death as part of life, listens to what is subtle, and trusts that there is intelligence moving through everything… if we slow down enough to feel it.

In this episode of Current Wave, I’m joined by Abigail Hines — healing practitioner, medicine weaver, and vocalist — for a conversation on animal communication, death and reciprocity, ancestral practices, and the deeper ways we can return to right relationship with the natural world.

We speak about what it means to process animals in ceremony, not as something transactional, but as something sacred. Abigail shares the story behind her “Squirrel to Soup” practice, and how working with animals in both life and death became an initiation into deeper presence, reverence, and connection.

We also explore the ways animals communicate with us—through intuition, sensation, and subtle knowing—and how reconnecting to these channels can awaken parts of ourselves that have been dormant.

This conversation moves between the grounded and the mystical. From food, land, and nourishment… to whales, sound, and the unseen realms of communication that exist beyond language.

At its core, this episode is about remembering that we are not separate.

We are part of a living, breathing, communicating world.

And there is a different way to be in relationship with it.

In this episode, we explore:

* Returning to right relationship — animals, land, death, and reciprocity