Before we are anything, we are stories, woven by earth, sky and silence.
Welcome.
I’m Rohini Walker—a British-Indian writer, mentor and devoted practitioner of soul-body liberation. For over a decade, I’ve made my home in the mythic Mojave Desert of Southern California, a landscape that has profoundly inspired and shaped my journey.
Born in Kolkata India, under a summer waning gibbous moon, I was named after Rohini, celestial goddess and beloved of Chandra, the Indian moon god. Affectionately nicknamed “Moon” after my maternal grandmother, Moona, this lunar connection has been a guiding thread throughout my life.
Many years later, I married the man I love who has the last name Walker. Taking his name so that I would become Moon Walker seemed fitting for this new cycle - especially after we crossed oceans to settle in a desert that mirror’s the moon’s landscape.
And my natal sun is in the constellation of Cancer, ruled by the moon, further deepening this lunar bond, reflected in ancestry and in the archetypal language of astrology & mythology > > >
> > > just one of several symbol-sets, with its attendant mythologies, following me around like a shadow, quietly asking me to dive deeper into discovering more of my soul-body’s essence. We all have these. Some easily apprehended, others that require a non-linear engagement with the cache of signs, symbols and synchronicities that secretly weave their meanings into our lives, waiting to be discovered.
These motifs are the vessels of our deepest truths, our unique soul-signatures, the subterranean temples of our powers and gifts. Under the regime of soul-body colonization, the conditioned demeaning and degradation of the most meaningful, foundational roots of ourselves have become the consensus reality of materialism. If you have a gnawing sense that there’s more to life than what you’ve been led to believe, that’s your soul tugging at your sleeve, asking you to follow and (re)discover your own innate powers of world-making, meaning- making magic.
After breakdowns + breakthroughs in the desert, throwing me into the work of transmuting a lifetime’s worth of inherited inter-generational trauma and related chronic autoimmune imbalances, my immersive study and practice of inner alchemy and myth-making have coalesced around this work of soul-body liberation, and re-membering our authentic, native wisdom.
I have been irresistibly guided into offering this as my medicine to the world: namely, the work of exhuming, remembering, and weaving back together the forgotten, buried and repressed truths of our individual soul-mythos ~ our personal, archetypal DNA ~ as part of the new emerging pattern. This is the journey of becoming the architects of and participants in our own unique stories, as the new building blocks of the collective’s. And that work-play begins with the art of re-membering our native soul-wisdom.
What & How I Do
All my work is offered from a trauma-informed lens. I have an integrative approach, weaving in modalities I continue to be immersed in as a lifelong student and practitioner, some of which I came to 15 years ago.
These include:
~ somatic experiencing & nervous system rehabilitation
~ trauma healing, including inter-generational trauma
~ decolonial (inner-decolonization) & liberation medicine
~ spiritual ecology, ecosomatics and practical attunement to the wisdom & guidance of Nature
~ eastern & western energy medicine, esoteric & spiritual traditions
~ archetypes & mythology
~ creative writing, in collaboration with the non-verbal, linear language of the land + the body
(An essential quality in my approach to decolonial & liberation practice is that my work is not influenced by the fixed ideologies of Cultural Marxism.)
For the most part, I have chosen to learn and train outside of the colonial structures of standardization & categorization. As with conventional modes of schooling and education, they’re designed to keep visionary, soul-based innovation subject to and confined within hierarchical + artificial systems.
As such, my training has been, and continues with resonant human teachers, Nature, ancestral lineages and other more-than-human guides.
Issue 1 of Luna Arcana
Luna Arcana
In the Mojave high desert, I co-founded Luna Arcana, an arts and literary print periodical centered on alchemy, myth and ecology, contextualized in the wilderness of the American south-west. So far, we’ve published six issues and an anthology, The Alchemy of Earth & Sky, in collaboration with The Artlands
On a trip to Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 2017
The Call
I spent my early childhood in India, before my family and I emigrated to London just as I turned ten. I expected to live there forever — until a shocking event in my late twenties pulled the ground from beneath me. Life, as I knew it, no longer made sense; and the dominant artificial systems that humans are required to comply with starkly revealed themselves as rooted in harm and oppression.
The Descent
In the years that followed, I began dismantling the structures of a life I could feel at its core was meaningless. During this period of alchemical unraveling, I trained as an Usui Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner, and was initiated into shamanic wisdom traditions. I attended my first ten-day Vipassana retreat, immersing myself in Buddhist insight meditation through the lineage of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.
Later, my path drew me into the non-dual teachings of Advaita Vedanta and Vedic knowledge, including initiation into Vedic (Transcendental) Meditation.
Layers of Self-abandonment began to fall away — but the deeper journey had only just begun.
The Alchemy
The desert called, and I answered. One autumn morning, my husband and I stood before our new home in the wilderness of the Mojave high desert, with only two suitcases of our worldly belongings — and a willingness to be remade.
In the years since, I have immersed myself in the study and practice of eastern & western inner alchemy traditions, somatic experiencing, ecosomatics and spiritual ecology, allowing myself to be guided by the living mythos of my inner and outer landscapes.
As a child, steeped in the rich archetypal language of Indian cosmogony, I had intuited the animism in all things — a knowing subsequently fractured by the dominant culture’s enforced ruptures. Later on, a Masters in European History & Literature gave me some grounding in Indigenous (Pagan) European storytelling traditions, but the dryness of academia left me thirsting for something more vital, more alive, more intimate with the subjective experiences of land and body.
It was only when the desert took me in that I truly began to listen, to remember, and to weave a living tapestry of myth, nature, and devotional surrender to the living mystery.
The Return
My soul-body — once a parched well — began to replenish itself, nourished by the embodied knowing that I am not the wounds of culture and generations, but a far vaster more mysterious space in which they can be tended, resolved and integrated back into wholeness.
In an oasis in the desert - photo by Angela de la Agua