Spirit of the Peaks with Connor Ryan

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As an athlete who spends his days in the mountains, Connor Ryan is always exploring how he can weave together his Indigenous culture and his love of winter sports.

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0:00.0	Those same elements that are present at a sweat lodge ceremony are present when I go out
0:07.4	and ski.
0:09.3	The intention is to sweat and to breathe and to purify yourselves.
0:13.9	And I think that's part of what led me to seeing skiing.
0:17.3	As a ceremony and a dance of its own for me, when I'm there, I show up with an intention
0:22.7	and I breathe and I sweat and so that's for me what helped me to kind of understand
0:29.4	like what it is really that I'm doing as a skier and give me a whole different kind
0:34.0	of context for approaching something that to a lot of people might just be a sport, but
0:40.0	to me as part of a way of life.
0:46.2	Connor Ryan is a professional skier and proud hunk Papa Lakota.
0:51.0	As an athlete who spends his days in the mountains, Connor is always exploring how he can weave
0:56.4	together his indigenous culture and his love of winter sports.
1:00.6	I'm Shelby Stenger and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:10.0	Connor Ryan, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:13.1	Hi, I'm Otaki Ape.
1:15.0	What does that mean?
1:16.8	That's greenings relatives in Lakota.
1:19.7	You have a lot of really beautiful sayings in Lakota, your Lakota.
1:23.3	Yeah.
1:24.3	Hunk Papa Lakota, is that how I say it?
1:25.7	Yeah, Hunk Papa.
1:26.7	You have this other saying that I really love that you start a lot of things with Hoka
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