What if tattooing is not just art, but an ancient gateway into a field of memory that exists beyond the mind?

In this episode, we explore the concept of Morphic Resonance, the idea that repeated behaviours, forms, and symbols strengthen a collective memory field that transcends time and space. Across millennia, cultures, and lineages, tattooing has been more than ornament. It has been ritual, initiation, offering, and vow, a ceremonial act that resonates with those who came before.

Through breath, pain, blood, and symbol, the body remembers. A spiral is never just a spiral. A serpent is never only an animal. Each mark carries the imprint of those who bore it in ceremony, becoming a tuning fork that aligns the wearer with its frequency.

We look at how ancestral tattooing reawakens broken threads of lineage, how symbols become allies in healing and transformation, and how sacred tattooing done with intention contributes to a living morphic field, one that can be felt, remembered, and carried forward.

This is a conversation about resonance, memory, and the alchemy of skin and spirit.

It is about how tattoos become not just aesthetic, but magnetic.

Not just personal, but ancestral.

Not just symbolic… but alive.

In this episode, we explore how tattooing is far more than an art form, it is a living dialogue with the body, the spirit, and the cells themselves. When approached with intention and ceremony, tattooing becomes an energetic signal that shapes our biology, reprogramming cellular memory and awakening ancestral wisdom.

You’ll discover how belief, environment, and symbolism influence the very behaviour of our cells, how ritual and prayer create a state where healing thrives, and how the pain of tattooing itself can act as a passage of transformation. From sacred geometry to ancestral lineage, every design carries resonance, becoming a story written not just on the skin, but within the living memory of the body.

This is where ancient wisdom meets modern science, revealing tattooing as a profound tool for healing, empowerment, and becoming whole.

In this episode, I sit in powerful conversation with Stephanie Big Eagle—traditional handpoke tattoo artist, cultural bearer, and author of Thunderbird Rising. Of Lakota and Dakota ancestry on her father’s side, and Nordic and Haudenosaunee lineage on her mother’s, Stephanie walks the path of remembrance, revival, and reclamation.

Together, we explore the sacred role of tattooing within the Native American Nations—an ancient tradition largely disrupted by colonisation, but now rising once more through the hands of those called to remember. Stephanie shares her journey of reconnecting with these ceremonial markings, and the deep spiritual resonance they carry.

We speak on the ancestral significance of the designs, the power of the handpoke method, and the return of tattooing as an embodied prayer, a rite of passage, and a symbol of cultural survival. This is more than ink—it is the language of memory, land, and identity inscribed back into the skin.

This episode is a reverent and stirring exchange for all those drawn to the resurgence of Indigenous tattooing, and to the healing power of cultural reconnection.

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