Today we are talking about the two things that might be keeping the wellness world from taking on social injustice. And we take a closer look at the context surrounding our own inner journey. Clue: The context is everyone else and all this sh*t that’s happening.
Here are some other voices I recommend:
Liberty by Andrea Ranae Johnson
This Is America, The Boonie Breakdown
Nazis march with torches and the world is upside down. We’ve been here before and we try to figure out what to do about that kind of thing. How do we learn from our history, how do we move forward, and do we even try to look inside for the icky darkness in ourselves?
As we continue on our every day, and to look at our own place in all of this, please also listen to and amplify the voices of people of color and others.
I found this article and its links helpful: White Feelings for Charlotte.
Read more about Black Lives Matter here.
Today we discuss Aparigraha, non-coveting or non-attachment, and how it applies to governing, dinner parties and revolution. Also, we do some holding on of our own with a brief breath work practice.
Here are a few items mentioned in the podcast: Ekhart Yoga, this gem of a movie, and for good measure, Hamlet.
This episode we talk about what yoga has to say about celibacy and what a hot number Warren Harding really was. We also do a sound meditation to bring our energies up instead of letting them swirl in the sexy place.
Om Mantra Chanting audio available for download here.
Seems like a good time for another dip into Universal Morality. This episode, we talk about hoarding, stealing, wasting, wanting and more. We try to get behind why we want so much and do a brief meditation on letting it all go.
That meditation comes from Michael W. Taft and you can see it here.
This episode I’ll be guiding shitali - a cooling pranayama.
This episode I’ll be guiding alternate nostril breathing - balancing out the right and left sides of the brain and body.
This episode I’ll be guiding a pranayama called Lion’s Breath. Roooaaar.
This episode we’re practicing a breath called Antara kumbhaka - breath retention.
This episode I’ll be guiding a version of metta meditation - a loving kindness meditation practice.
This episode walks through a guided breath practice for awakening and energy with bhastrika, the bellows breath.
This episode gets into real-life techniques for how to feel our feelings. We go over what something called “BRFWA” means and have some guided self-talk.
We are focused on the first chakra in a grounding meditation to help get your feet on the earth when your head is in the clouds.
This episode we are focused on the third eye center, the center of intuition with a simple visualization - a guided meditation to bring you down to earth and key into your own inner wisdom.
In this series we focus on “just the practice.” Today, a meditation on intuition.
This episode we break down the very basics with posture cues for meditation and breath work, and a few simple pranayama techniques to bring us back to balance.
In this little missive to you, my dear listeners, we introduce a new idea, "Yoga For the Revolution: Practice." These episodes will skip the news of the day, and dive right in to the practice. So next time you want to cut out the chit chat and just get down to the breath or to the meditation, look for any episode with "practice" in the title.
In this episode we discuss the truth about leadership, the age of anxiety and how the problem with kids today is way different than it used to be.
We reference a few bon motes from pop culture, so here are some links. Some are NYT articles, some are movies with Ethan Hawke. They are all equally important.
Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax by Alex Williams
Reality Bites official trailer
If Sex and the City Came Out in 2017, Miranda Would Be the Protagonist by Harling Ross
In this episode we imagine what would happen if stress were a good thing. And then we roll around in the stress-based riches the administration has provided us like Scrooge McDuck in a pile of his own money. Also, we talk a little bit about the love story in the action-thriller Speed.
Here is the TED talk mentioned in the podcast with Kelly McGonigal.
And this is the article on oxytocin, the loooove drug.
In this episode we discuss pratyahara, sense withdrawal, and do a little breathing in the dark. In an attempt to discuss the koshas - or 5 layers of being - I describe our human form as an onion, a meat body, and a tootsie pop. Ah, but it’s what’s in the center that makes it all worth while.