Stuff by Melina Laroza

• Locations: News By Melina Laroza Published Sep. 20, 2023

  So the women gathered

  Oriana Rebecca Moebius delivers anncouncements with confidence and love in the hearth of the gathering space. Photo by Melina Laroza

  The air changed this past weekend, and on its cooled currents came the first dusting of snow atop Mt. Sopris and a migration of around 130 women from all over Colorado and beyond to join locals at 13 Moons Ranch for the seventh annual Red Earth: The Mountain… read more →

• Locations: News By Melina Laroza Published Jul. 12, 2023

  Community is immunity

  Art by Sofie Koski

  In post-pandemic America, folks are working harder than ever in exchange for lesser value. The dollar does not go as far, everything costs more and, for many, self-care is nonexistent. It’s no wonder that essential workers are rapidly feeling burned out. Luckily, there are people in our very community who… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Melina Laroza Published Mar. 15, 2023

  TRE leads the body home

  TRE class in the Roaring Fork Valley. Courtesy photo

  Being on the healer’s journey for years has led me to explore how holistic healing differs from Western medicine. Particularly it focuses on four levels of health — mental, emotional, physical and spiritual — rather than just the physical body.

  Many people are surprised to learn… read more →

• Locations: Columns, Opinion By Melina Laroza Published Feb. 1, 2023

  Mending the Hoop

  Photo by Beth White

  Whether colonizer or colonized, oppressor or oppressed, we all are wounded from the illusion of separation between Mother Earth, ourselves and each other. Indigenous peoples who live in tribes connected with their roots are perhaps closer than the rest of us to our Mother.

  Woody Morrison, a Haida elder who… read more →

• Locations: Español By Melina Laroza Published Feb. 1, 2023

  Remendando el Aro

  

  Traducción por Dolores Duarte

  Ya sea colonizadores o colonizados, opresores u oprimidos, todos estamos heridos por la quimera de separación entre la Madre Tierra, nosotros mismos y entre sí. Los pueblos indígenas que viven en tribus conectadas con sus raíces están quizá más cerca que el resto de nosotros de… read more →