Black Girl In Om – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Deun Ivory is back! In this mini-episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, Deun Ivory (she/her) joins Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around creative wellness and the Black Women Are Worthy movement. For those who are new to the show, Deun is the founder and creative director of The Body: A Home For Love, a 501C3 nonprofit and wellness membership space that shifts culture around how Black women heal from sexual trauma. They provide trauma-informed care, community, and creative wellness to black women seeking a safe space to heal and journey towards self-love. Deun is also the former art director for BGIO, so you’re sure to have interacted with her intentionally gorgeous work. In the episode, she affirms the power of channeling our creative energy toward healing our inner child and loving on ourselves. 

Deun and her team recently launched the Black Women Are Worthy movement with the intention of providing resources and care to Black Women survivors of sexual abuse. Their goal is to raise 2 million dollars to serve and grow a community of over 10,000 black women and to become the standard for trauma-informed care and creative wellness. The short film that catalyzed the movement is a stunning love letter to our undeniable worthiness as Black Women. It’s a must-watch experience filled with loving intention! Press Play to listen in on a joyful conversation between friends about creativity, healing, and sustainable joy. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT 

• creative wellness and how art can be restorative and therapeutic
• knowing ourselves intuitively
• the Black Women Are Worthy movement (donate here)
• the body: a home for love

Connect with The Body: A Home For Love on their website thebodyahomeforlove.org

And find them on Instagram @thebodyahomeforlove

Watch the powerful short film and donate to the Black Women Are Worthy movement here: blackwomenareworthy.co

Award winning executive marketer, talent manager, and founder of boutique consultancy, Gild Creative Group, Tiffany Hardin (she/her) joins Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around conscious hustling and intentional partnerships. Tiffany is one of the phenomenal women co-creating the presence and impact of Black Girl In Om in the world. With great thanks to her wealth of knowledge, BGIO’s central intention of helping to facilitate intergenerational healing for Black women across the Diaspora begins with how we operate behind the scenes and ripples outward. She’s committed to supporting divine partnerships rooted in equality and equity that move our culture forward. 

In this episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast. Lauren and Tiffany talk about creating pathways to success that are aligned with our purpose and that do not rely on proximity to whiteness or patriarchy. They get into the paradigm setting choices that go into building and sustaining a platform like BGIO, and offer insight into how to maintain business partnerships that are nourishing rather than draining. Tiffany shares her fulfilling journey of moving from unconscious to conscious hustling, and the decisions she’s made to get there. While white supremacist ideas of success surround us in the world and can tempt us to prioritize winning over integrity or community, we need not compromise our beliefs to get ahead. Press Play to listen in on a gem-filled conversation between friends and partners who are making big ideas into realities.

THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

• How Tiffany and Lauren met and began their partnership
• The foundations of healthy relationships between talent and managers
• Consciously equal and equitable partnerships 
• How internalized white supremacy and patriarchy can show up in Black workplaces 
• Decolonizing relationships
• Moving beyond overwhelm to a sense of control 
• How to effectively be of service as a leader 
• Holding space, for ourselves first, and then for others
• Creating frameworks for success outside of white supremacist standards of achievement

If you’re curious to turn your big idea into a reality, head over to GildGreativeGroup.com to learn more and get the ball rolling 

Find her on Instagram @Tiffany_Hardin

Check out BGIO’s Sleep EP mentioned in the episode here: bit.ly/BeautySleepBGIO

In this episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, co-founder and creative director of Freedom Apothecary, Bonkosi Horn (she/her), joins BGIO founder Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around reclaiming self care and wellness as our birthright. Freedom Apothecary is a space that centers Black women & WOC coming together in community along their self-discovery, healing, and wellness journeys through holistic lifestyle practices and rituals. All of the products they carry are nontoxic, clean beauty, and created by women. Lauren and Bonkosi talk about offering ourselves grace as we bring further awareness and active intention to what goes on and in our bodies. While mainstream wellness conversations can get a bad rap for being only for a certain type of person, Lauren and Bon discuss how true self care is our birthright as Black women. We deserve to prioritize our experience and nurture a relationship to self. Bonkosi is here to help us along this journey, and to connect us with a network of like-minded women through Freedom Apothecary! While their physical space is in Philadelphia, you can access an abundance of clean, women-founded offerings from them wherever you are through their website. True wellness should be accessible to everyone because, as Bon says, “It’s a right. It’s not a luxury.”

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

• How tapping into what she was craving positioned Bonkosi to dream up Freedom Apothecary
• Where to start when making a choice to divest from brands and products with dangerous ingredients.
• An App that helps you to choose the safest beauty and household products by allowing you to see what ingredients are in them and alerting you to which ones are toxic.
• Resources that help Lauren to feel more empowered in her choices around the products she uses
• Bonkosi’s advice for doing DIY skincare right
• Bon’s experience growing a brand that is centered on wellbeing specifically for women and women of color
• The process of learning to ask for help when you need it
• How motherhood encourages intentional prioritization and boundary-setting

Keep up with Bonkosi Horn on Instagram and twitter @Bonkosi

Freedom Apothecary is reopening, safely and slowly the first week of April, so head over to FreedomApothecary.com to find out more about their many offerings or to book an appointment at their Blend Bar!

For 20% off of Organifi’s delicious completely plant-based and low-sugar organic superfood blends, head over to Organifi.com/blackgirlinom

If you're interested in offering support to BGIO's very first physical healing space for Black women, head over to gofund.me/8de0022e

Lauren (she/they) announces that Black Girl In Om’s very first physical space, home, is coming soon to the Longfellow community in Minneapolis! In this mini-sode of the BGIO Podcast, Lauren takes us through the serendipitous journey toward crafting the vision and finding the perfect location to plant the roots of what will be an oasis of intergenerational healing and wellness for black people. Home will feature a black-sourced, organic herbal apothecary, diverse healing modalities from specialized practitioners, culturally-specific programming for black folk to heal and come together in community, a curated shop of essentials, and more. Even in the face of injustice, we can create heaven on earth right here, right now. The story of how home came to be is a testament to how walking in alignment with your purpose and staying committed to your vision inevitably attracts a resonant community along your shared path. Let the journey begin!

You can offer support to home by BGIO here.
To find out more about the space, head over to blackgirlinom.com/home-by-bgio

THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

• One of Lauren’s most frequent prayers
• How Lauren uses triggering experiences as fuel for catalyzing change for what she desires to see
  in the world
• Tracee Stanley’s acknowledgement of the three different pandemics we’re living through this cultural moment
• How Lauren manifested the space for home
• What it looks like to hold the vision and allow the vision to be made manifest
• A peek into what home will offer to the Longfellow community in Minneapolis and to children of the diaspora across the globe.
• Lauren’s journey with Human Design

In this episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, author and lineaged yoga teacher Tracee Stanley (she/her) joins BGIO Founder Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around why Yoga Nidra is the powerful healing practice the world needs. When we give ourselves the tools of rest, we build upon our strength, peace, and ability to focus on what matters. Yoga Nidra offers tools that allow us to hold space for ourselves fully first. From that place, we are able to truly hold space for others also. Lauren and Tracee discuss how paying homage to lineage in our yoga training and practice provides us with key context that positions us to connect more profoundly to source, and to find our own voices within long-standing traditions. Tracee encourages that bringing self-inquiry to everything we do can help us peel back layers of conditioning and experience to reveal our purpose and essential life force. She describes how nurturing a relationship with nature in our spirituality practice can open us up to further power and self awareness. This conversation is filled with nourishing gems, so get your journals ready! As Tracee says, “You are your most beloved. Lift yourself up like you’re your most beloved!”

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT

• Yoga Nidra
• What it looks like to truly hold space for ourselves
• Honoring lineage in your spiritual practice
• Allowing your unique voice to shine through your spiritual practice
• Moving from fight or flight to rest and digest
• Lauren’s Yoga Nidra journey and how she’s holding space for herself
• Yoga Nidra as a tool for manifestation
• Partnering with the unknown
• Tracee’s intention for her Book, Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity
• What a Rest Nest is and how to create one for yourself
• Incorporating nature in spiritual practice

You can keep up with Tracee on her websites traceeyoga.com and radiantrest.com

Follow her on instagram @tracee_stanley and twitter @Shaktidiva

Buy her beautiful book Radiant Rest Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity here!

Listen to her podcast Radiant Rest anywhere you listen to podcasts https://www.radiantrest.com/radiant-rest-podcast/

If you’re hoping to add more rest and ease into your life, head over to Organifi.com/blackgirinom for 20% off your purchase of completely organic superfood blends

Head over to blackgirlinom.com to join us in Black Girl In Om’s online sisterhood of black women committed to wellness, joy, and healing in community, The Circle. The Circle sources our members with empowering guides, divinely ordained connections, and culturally aligned resources for you as you expand into your most authentic self.

In this episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, chef & author Klancy Miller joins BGIO founder Lauren in conversation around the expansive power of expressing love to ourselves and our communities through the preparation and enjoyment of food. Klancy and Lauren share their unique food rituals that help them to create the perfect vibe for a truly nourishing and joyful culinary experience. Klancy talks about how never seeing Black women featured in food magazines growing up inspired her to build a first-of-its’-kind biannual printed food & culture magazine called For The Culture created by and about Black women tastemakers across the Diaspora. As Klancy points out, we are literally everywhere as chefs, somaliers, farmers, bakers, food activists and restaurateurs, playing essential roles in architecting cuisines and influencing the culture. No matter where you’re at in your relationship to cooking and food, you’re sure to take away something nourishing from this conversation that inspires you to infuse each meal with love and joy.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT:

• Klancy and Lauren’s cooking rituals
• The best parts about cooking solo
• How spending part of her childhood on a farm in Atlanta making food grown off the land informed Klancy’s deep
  love and appreciation for food
• The ways food plays a role in our expression of spirituality
• Klancy’s practice of cooking as meditation
• The power of cooking as an act of love
• Klancy’s mouthwatering and surprisingly easy recipe for Tian De Légume - a delicious dish with summer vegetables
  and goat cheese (YUM!)
• The energy-boosting benefits of a sugar detox
• How Klancy organically built a dynamic network of black women throughout the food world
• Some of Lauren & Klancy’s favorite black women owned vegan restaurants in NYC and Los Angeles

Pick up the beautiful 1st issue of Klancy’s food magazine created by & about black women tastemakers, For The Culture at ForTheCultureFoodMag.com

Keep up with Klancy on instagram at @Klancycooks

Order your copy of Klancy’s incredible cookbook Cooking Solo on her website, KlancyMiller.com

If you’re interested in trying Green Chef, the number one meal kit for eating well, go to GreenChef.com/90blackgirlinom. Use code 90blackgirlinom to get 90 dollars off including free shipping. Green Chef is sustainably packaged, uses fresh certified organic ingredients, and makes it super easy to follow a delicious plant based diet!

Head over to blackgirlinom.com to join us in Black Girl In Om’s online sisterhood of black women committed to wellness, joy, and healing in community, The Circle. The Circle sources our members with empowering guides, divinely ordained connections, and culturally aligned resources for you as you expand into your most authentic self.

Jas The Moon Mother guides people to retrieve their liberation and align with their soul’s purpose. She utilizes the tools of Human Design and intentional language to interrupt looping lies that can keep us trapped in cycles of burnout. In this episode of the Black Girl in Om (BGIO) Podcast, Jas joins BGIO founder Lauren in conversation around identifying as God and bringing radical presence to each moment. Jas shares that we are all here to embody and deliver a divine message unique to only ourselves. She encourages us to tap into patience in the process of defining and working toward the “why” at the heart of our mission. While the inevitable nothingness of uncertainty can be intimidating, there is no need to fear the fruitful black velvet of the void.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT:

• Human Design; a synthesis of many different ancient teachings and wisdoms wrapped into one
• Utilizing Human Design as a tool to help you discover your “why”
• Serving your purpose rather than your ego
• Interrupting counterproductive patterns of passive comfort
• Reacquainting ourselves with the black velvet of the void
• Nurturing narratives that serve our purpose and releasing narratives that place us in unnecessary bondage
• Switching your mindset around resources from scarcity to receptivity
• Transforming our relationship to triggers
• Jas’s perspective on the 3 key reasons why we are either manifesting the opposite of our desires, or not manifesting our desires at all
• Clearing up the differences between our beliefs and our identity

Keep up with Jas The Moon Mother on Instagram @themoon.mother
Find her on her website Moondustourmother.com where you can order a personalized Human Design Soul Map reading
Listen to her podcast Divinely Human wherever you listen to podcasts

Head over to takecareof.com and enter the code blackgirlinom50 to get 50% off your first Care/of order!

Lyvonne “Pastor Bae” Briggs is a body and sex positive pastor and preacher, spiritual life coach, transformational speaker, and founder of The Proverbial Experience, an IG Live series of spiritual gatherings to nourish your soul. She is committed to centering the experiences of Black women in her work of rooting spiritual practice in pleasure and authentic empowerment rather than in shame. In this episode of the Black Girl in Om (BGIO) Podcast, BGIO founder Lauren Ash and Lyvonne Briggs join in a joyful conversation around reclamation of our sexual agency as daughters of the African diaspora and women of color. As Pastor Bae says herself, “I’m not your mama’s preacher. Praise the Lord!”

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT:

Utilizing pleasure as a vessel for healing
The transformative power of vulnerability
The art of integrating our sensuality, sexuality and spirituality
Decolonizing sex, the body, and religion in ways that make room for us to live fully in our humanity and worthiness
Shifting from conversations about intergenerational trauma to conversations about intergenerational healing
Unapologetically giving voice to our desires
Lauren’s Kundalini yoga practice and journey
Deepening into ancestral connection
Starting your Ancestral Altar

Get in touch with Lyvonne through her website LyvonneP.com
Meet her on Instagram @LyvonneP
Find her on Patreon if you’re ready to learn in community about the art of integrating your sensuality, sexuality, and spirituality
Cohort 4 of her online course “i’m a Surthrivor” is launching Wednesday March 3, 2021

Trigger Warning: sexual violence 12:46

This episode of the Black Girl in Om Podcast was sponsored by BirchBox. Head over to birchbox.com/blackgirlinom to get 50% off of your first box!

Gina Breedlove is a sound healer, a vocalist, a composer and a medicine woman. She is committed to the liberation of us, one body at a time. In this episode of the Black Girl In Om (BGIO) podcast, BGIO Founder Lauren Ash and Gina Breedlove join in conversation and discuss the power of voice and listening as a radical act. They poetically weave us through history and the source of our healing--our roots.

In this episode you’ll find out more about:

How Lauren and Gina Breedlove met at Rev Angel Kyodo Williams’ Being Transformation Retreat
The power and timing of connection
Learning how to honor lineage
Sourcing medicine from our ancestors
Moving grief out of the body
The power and practice of listening as a radical act
Gina’s divine introduction to Chakra science
The body’s way of telling us that there is a necessary step before forgiveness
Individual reclamation
Gina’s work with women in the South, specifically sound healing in reproductive social issues
Grief is inexhaustible, let yourself cry

Journey through the chakras and renew your energy with BGIO on December 5th! The Annual Day of Wholeness is our annual radical trip within to explore the levels of your highest self and our divine, inherent liberation. We will journey through each core chakra in our bodies. spinning wheels of light in all of us that receive, recalibrate, and radiate energy and—when clear and activated—help us operate at optimal levels.

Now, more than ever, Black womxn deserve to have access to spaces, practices, and knowledge that realigns us with our sovereignty and empowers our vision for what is possible even when the material realm presents roadblocks.

We’ve been told to keep the same energy, Black Girl In Om is challenging you to renew it instead.
Journey through the chakras and renew your energy with BGIO on December 5th! The Annual Day of Wholeness is our annual radical trip within to explore the levels of your highest self and our divine, inherent liberation. We will journey through each core chakra in our bodies. spinning wheels of light in all of us that receive, recalibrate, and radiate energy and—when clear and activated—help us operate at optimal levels.

Now, more than ever, Black womxn deserve to have access to spaces, practices, and knowledge that realigns us with our sovereignty and empowers our vision for what is possible even when the material realm presents roadblocks.

We’ve been told to keep the same energy, Black Girl In Om is challenging you to renew it instead.
Journey through the chakras and renew your energy with BGIO on December 5th! The Annual Day of Wholeness is our annual radical trip within to explore the levels of your highest self and our divine, inherent liberation. We will journey through each core chakra in our bodies. spinning wheels of light in all of us that receive, recalibrate, and radiate energy and—when clear and activated—help us operate at optimal levels.

Now, more than ever, Black womxn deserve to have access to spaces, practices, and knowledge that realigns us with our sovereignty and empowers our vision for what is possible even when the material realm presents roadblocks.

We’ve been told to keep the same energy, Black Girl In Om is challenging you to renew it instead.
https://blackgirlinom.mn.co