On hospicing modernity, an invitation to hold many paradoxical layers of complexity, to stretch your heart, to know vulnerability as your strength.

• (1:00) - Colonialism, identity, and family history.
• (7:10) - Modernity, its definition, and its impact on society, culture, and the environment.
• (16:53) - Modernity, colonialism, and their impact on humanity's mental health and well-being.
• (26:20) - Education, storytelling, and connection to nature.
• (32:50) - Indigenous perspectives on psychology, including the concept of the "bus" representing the multiplicity within the self.
• (39:08) - Modern society's disconnection from nature and self, with a focus on indigenous knowledge and practices for healing and growth.
  
  

Dr. Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti has served as a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia, now Dean of the Faculty of Education of the University of Victoria. 

Dr. Andreotti is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. She is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism (2021) and one of the co-founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) Arts/Research Collective. Most of her published articles and OpEds are available at academia.edu.

She began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil, and Canada.

Andreotti works across sectors in international and comparative education, particularly focusing on global justice and citizenship, Indigenous and community engagement, sustainability, and social and ecological responsibility. Her research examines relationships between historical, systemic, and on-going forms of violence, and the inherent unsustainability of modernity. Andreotti is one of the founding members of Gesturing Decolonial Futures Collective (decolonialfutures.net) and Teia das 5 Curas, an international network of Indigenous communities mostly in Canada and Latin America. She currently collaborates with these groups to direct research projects and learning initiatives related to global healing and wellbeing in times of unprecedented challenges.

On activating compassion through our simplest offerings of forgiveness, care, gratitude and respect.

• (0:30) - Japanese rituals for beauty, harmony, and love.
• (10:00) - Cleaning and its connection to healing and mindfulness.
• (16:36) - Organizing and decluttering, with a focus on the importance of forgiveness and creating more space in life.
• (24:49) - Healing, self-care, and relationships.
• (31:48) - Buddhist teachings, suffering, and healing through interconnectedness and self-reflection.

Paula Ara was raised in Detroit by a Japanese mother, and did Zen training in Japan. She obtained her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University in 1993 and is now the Eshinni & Kakushinni Professor of Women and Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals, Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns, and Painting Enlightenment: Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra. Her work has been a tremendous force in my own spiritual formation.

From the wild edge of intuition, women's health, inner presence and full embodiment, a peek inside the hearts of wise, engaged women.

• (2:48) – Women's health and intuition with a holistic approach.
• (8:50) – Rituals and inner terrain mastery for personal growth.
• (16:43) – Women's cycle, herbal medicine, and personal growth.
• (23:53) – Women's empowerment and healing.
• (32:02) – Women's leadership and herbal medicine course.
• (36:32) – Meditation and inner wisdom for personal growth.

Seraphina Capranos is a clinical herbalist, homeopath, and initiated priestess with a practice spanning over two decades.

As well as being a deeply engaging teacher and speaker, she has a clinical practice on Salt Spring Island. Her unique blend of gifts straddle the vast worlds of plant medicine, homeopathy, and ritual and ceremonial magic. She is a sought after international teacher who has taught thousands of students since 2008. She is the CEO and founder of The Center for Sacred Arts.

From The Wild Edge is a ground-breaking virtual program that weaves a rich tapestry of Myth, Herbal Medicine, Modern Science and Ritual, taught by Seraphina and Dr. Karley Denoon. Blending expert health and hormonal guidance, herbal medicine, enriching community learning, elevating your understanding of what it means to heal as a woman in our times, From The Wild Edge might be a relevant course for you.

ELENA means 5% off the course at this link. Enrollment closes Sunday May 12, 2024.

On saturating your brain and body with bliss through your practice of meditation; meditation for kids; practice for extraordinary performance.

On the efficacy and legacy of Ayurveda in calibrating body, mind and mood; how tragedy can lead to true service.

On building relationships across points of difference, acknowledging the patterns of trauma we've inherited to reshape those relations, and remembering the practice as a way to honour those who've come before.

On locating and refining your intuition, with practices, prompts and new ways of seeing.

On vocalizing the pain of generations, standing up to ensure safe spaces, and crafting the conversations that need to be heard.

On managing reactions, creating structural compassion and walking the middle path.

On the ecology of your business; creating a world of your work that feels like a sanctuary for yourself and others.

On releasing rage, growing up, and the steady vibration of truth.

On redefining power, living and leading without apology, spacious parenting and the perceptions holding us back.

• (2:24) – Self-awareness, identity, and heritage.
• (7:32) – Identity, belonging, and cultural heritage.
• (11:38) – Heritage, identity, and systemic racism.
• (16:35) – Privilege and allyship in a 20-year marriage.
• (20:50) – Parenting, values, and personal growth.
• (27:01) – Parenting teenagers and respecting their identity choices.
• (31:40) – Privilege and its various forms.
• (36:23) – Privilege and leadership with a focus on neurodiversity and accessibility.

One of Australia's leading credentialed coaches for female executives and entrepreneurs, Kemi Nekvapil is an author and a highly sought-after international speaker, a flower farmer, a wife and mother, and a solid friend. She's studied leadership and purpose at The Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan and trained with Dr Brené Brown to become a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, working with teams and organisations to create daring leaders and courageous cultures. Kemi is a facilitator for The Hunger Project Australia and a regular interviewer of industry icons including Elizabeth Gilbert, Martha Beck and Marie Forleo, and she hosts the number one ranking podcast The Shift Series. With a level of compassion and wisdom only gained through extraordinary life experience, Kemi is a powerful advocate for connected, value-based living.

On being an architect of community, social entrepreneurship and creating businesses straight from your heart.

• Permission to be creative [3:12]
• Confidence. Creating products that are taboo [6:28]
• Miki's experience of being sexually assaulted [9:41]
• Lessons learned from professional hurdles [18:30]
• Launching Tushy. Three questions Miki asks herself before starting any business [31:21]
• Conceiving and letting go [44:33]

Miki Agrawal
Thinx
Tushy
Do Cool Sh*t, Miki Agrawal Disrupt-Her, Miki Agrawal Lauren Zander, Handel Group
Tribute.co
Wild

On resolving victimhood, transforming fear, freedom from resentment, curiosity as hope, and delivering deep love to yourself, no matter what.

• The listening that is required to help others heal [4:21]
• Empowerment in the face of life's deepest hardships [8.31]
• Creating family constitutions [15:35]
• Forgiving yourself [17:09]
• Nobody heals in a straight line [20:39]
• Practicing your low frustration tolerance level [27:36]
• The calamity theory of growth [30:52]
• Living to enrich the present. How we speak to ourselves [35:17]
• On never giving up [44:40]
• Forgiveness [50:57]

A native of Hungary, Edith Eva Eger was just 16 years old in 1944 when she experienced one of the worst evils the human race has ever known. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, she and her family were sent to Auschwitz, the heinous death camp. Her parents lost their lives there. She and her sister survived even though they were subjected to horrible treatment by Dr. Josef Mengele and survived the Death March in Austria. In 1949 she and her young family moved to the United States. In 1969 she received her degree in Psychology from the University of Texas, El Paso. She then pursued her doctoral internship at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss, Texas. She has spent much of her professional time working with members of the military helping them to recover from, and cope with, the ongoing effects of PTSD. Dr. Eger has always found ways to use her personal experiences to inspire, educate and help others. Dr. Eger has a clinical practice in La Jolla, California where she uses her past as a powerful analogy to inspire people to reach their potential and shape their destinies. In the fall of 2017 at the age of 90, her memoir The Choice, Embrace the Possible was published. In her book, she details how the synergy of working with, and learning from, her patient's perspectives has enriched her life experiences and outlook. The book focuses on moving forward in-light-of hardship, has received excellent reviews, was a New York Times Bestseller, is Internationally acclaimed, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. The New York Times Book Review wrote: "Eger's book is a triumph and should be read by all who care about both their inner freedom and the future of humanity." Oprah said of the book "I will be forever changed by Edith Eger's story." As of March 2018, the book has received two book awards, one being from the national organization of the Jewish Book Council; the other The Christopher Award. Her second book, The Gift, Twelve Lessons to Save your Life was released in September 2020 and immediately became a best seller in the UK and Ireland. In this book she gives actionable advice to assist every person facing life's difficulties in a positive and healthy manner. The Gift is being translated into more than thirty languages.

https://dreditheger.com/

The Choice, Dr. Edith Eger
The Gift, Dr. Edith Eger
On Death & Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Love in the Void, Simone Weil
Management of the Absurd, Richard Farson,
Roshi Joan Halifax
Albert Ellis

On recalibrating your nervous system, dancing with fear, and the smallest acts of forgiveness.

Sah D'Simone is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher, international transformational speaker, and best-selling author who has dedicated his life to helping others to live in alignment and achieve their highest potential. He is pioneering a Spiritually Sassy, heart-based healing movement rooted in science-backed, tried-and-true techniques, in which joy and authenticity illuminate the path to enlightenment.

His infectious enthusiasm for healing is grounded in a masterful and revolutionary synthesis of ancient Tantric Buddhism, modern contemplative psychotherapy, meditation, breathwork, and integrative nutrition... all delivered in his own radiant, approachable, and playful style.

myhealingally.com

On prioritizing our inner world through the practice of Yoga Nidra; the clear benefits of Radiant Rest.

• Brain waves and Yoga Nidra [2:30]
• Om, Maya and Turiya [6:56]
• Yoga Nidra explained simply [16:40]
• The mind merging in its source [18:05]
• Awareness and honoring of trauma [21:51]
• Octavia's story. Remembering our ancestors. The birthright to rest [26:14]
• Pratyahara [33:03]
• Pratyahara practice led by Tracee [36:53]
• Weaving in your practice when you can [46:43]
• The value of a self-guided practice [47:57]

Known for her emergent and responsive teaching style Tracee Stanley shares teachings sourced from more than 20 years of practice and study as a lineaged teacher of Sri Vidya Tantra. She shares the rituals of devotion through the practices of yoga nidra, self-inquiry, nature as the teacher, and ancestor reverence. She is the creator of the Empowered Life Self-Inquiry Oracle Deck and the author of Radiant Rest - Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation and Awakened Clarity published by Shambhala Publishing.

https://traceeyoga.com/

Radiant Rest, Tracee Stanley
Empowered life self-inquiry deck
Gather, Octavia Raheem
Ancestral Medicine, Daniel Fore
Commune 5 Day Deep Relaxation Course

On resilience through harrowing childhood assault, sharing pain as a service to others and the medicine of the story.

RICHARD FREEMAN began studying yoga in 1968, focusing on hatha, contemplative Buddhism, and the Ashtanga and Iyengar methods. He teaches throughout the world, and his video series, Yoga with Richard Freeman, set the gold standard for modern Ashtanga Yoga.

MARY TAYLOR has studied and practiced yoga since 1972 and teaches throughout the world. She co-founded the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado in 1988 with Richard.

• The importance of not casting people out of our hearts [3:12]
• Letting go of habitual patterns [08:08]
• Reconciling political divisiveness [8:42]
• Resistance to change [21:55]
• Trusting the unknown [22:50]
• Asking good questions. What will best serve? [27:11]
• The theory of the three Gunas; Tamas, Rajas and Sattva [31:11]
• Letting go of theories and placing them on the altar of pure awareness [41:50]
• Embodiment practices [48:57]

When Love Comes to Light, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor
The Mirror of Yoga, Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor
The Yoga Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
Richard Freeman on Glo.com

On using neuroscience to raise caring, compassionate, creative humans.

• Creativity [3:04]
• Empathy and self-control [7:40]
• Stages of brain development [20:14]
• Using brain plasticity to parent better. Experiences as a toolkit [24:03]
• Offering choices to children [30:42]
• Parental scaffolding. Offering a framework to kids for any given scenario [33:45]
• Conflict resolution. Teaching your kids to communicate clearly [41:40]
• Role playing. Learning to set boundaries [44:23]
• Fostering compassion for the bully [46:43]
• Neuroscience of self-control and self-regulation. Drug use [47:11]

Erin Clabough
Second Nature, Erin Clabough
Neuro for Parents video series
Nonviolent Communication, Marshall B. Rosenberg
Back Talk, Audrey Ricker The Soul of Discipline, Kim John Payne
What We Say Matters, Judith Hanson Lasater

On evolving and resolving generational patterns and misunderstandings. On loving ourselves enough to be a safe space for others; on great communication.

• Inner.U LOVE. Writing dreams for love, relationship to self and body [6:07]
• Looking to yourself rather than blaming others [7:53]
• Noticing when we're trying to make our partners more like us [10:32]
• Identifying the relationship sports you've been playing [12:42]
• How outing our issues can help others [15:16]
• Sex and relationships. Making a game out of liking our partner [24:11]
• Evolving our lineage and finding humour in the process [29:04]
• Recognising when we want something but don't want to admit it [34:04]
• Parenting [38:32]

Humor, compassion, and candor are the driving forces in Marnie Nir's work. Co-author with Lauren Zander of Maybe It's You, Marnie is SVP of Content & Development with Handel Group, and an Expert Coach in The Handel Method. She has also continued her creative work, namely as co-creator of the animated series Mother Up!, which aired 13 episodes on Hulu and starred Eva Longoria. She serves as an expert at Campowerment, blogs for the Huffington Post, and writes her own blog, "The Sour MILF."

Characterized by joyful honesty, Marnie's aim is to build the muscle of Personal Integrity, where what comes out of your mouth is what shall be. "In this way, you can really go from 'I will go to the gym,' to 'I will win an Emmy. And not just say it, but believe it, and cause it." Married for more than 25 years, Marnie enjoys working with wives, mothers, and singles, because she is well-acquainted with the challenges they face and speaks b*#ch, martyr, and chicken fluently. She lives in Pound Ridge, NY with her husband and Facetimes often with her two children. She even likes them.

W(h)ine Down with Marnie
Brene Brown interviewing Drs. John and Julie Gottman
What We Say Matters, Judith Hanson Lasater and Ike K Lasater
Practice You episode 44 with Lauren Zander

How's your love life? Find out with the Love, Sex & Dating Quiz from Marnie Nir at Handel Group. Answer the questions honestly, and the "LSD Quiz" will give you a good idea of exactly what kind of trip (fun, colorful, or long strange) you've actually been on when it comes to relationships. This quiz is the first step in truly designing the love life of your dreams.

Get started at: https://my.inneru.coach/crq/love

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On Ayurveda as a practice of deep listening, strengthening our ability to be resilient, present, and respectful of the rhythms of Nature.

Claire Ragozzino is a certified yoga instructor and Ayurvedic counselor with a background in holistic nutrition and natural cooking. Her work is dedicated to bringing yoga, Ayurveda, and nutrition to a modern lifestyle. She is the author of the popular site, Vidya Living, and also writes and photographs for online and print publications surrounding topics of food, culture, and our relationship to nature. Her first book, Living Ayurveda, offers a comprehensive Ayurvedic cookbook and lifestyle guide. Claire works with clients around the globe and leads immersive workshops and retreats.

• How Claire came to Ayurveda [5:10]
• Paying attention to subtle shifts in your environment [12:41]
• Late Winter moving into Spring [15:14]
• Like increases like. Your unique body type [16:24]
• Spring. Summer. Fall [18:21]
• The cumulative positive effects of applying this wisdom [21:20]
• Using Ayurvedic principles and being playful [22:15]
• Rebuilding vitality after you cleanse. Kitchari for boosting digestive fire [26:12]
• Chai hot chocolate [30:04]
• Rehydration lemonade [31:39]

Vidya Living
Living Ayurveda, Claire Ragozzino
Healing with Whole Foods, Paul Pitchford
Ayurveda: the Science of Self Healing Vasant Lad
Chyawanprash, Lotus Blooming Herbs

On true allyship, the names we need to keep repeating, the necessary healings and breaking through

Quddus (Q) is a veteran TV host, acclaimed celebrity interviewer and breakthrough media coach. Q is a former host of MTV's iconic show Total Request Live (TRL), has produced projects with the likes of AOL, Yahoo, and YouTube, and worked in artist development for Interscope Records. Q has spoken for audiences at the United Nations and Global Citizen Festival but a trip to his father's homeland, Haiti, inspired him to focus on directly helping others. As the founder of Media Mastery Academy, Q supports entrepreneurs and creatives to own their voice, share their story and master their brand. Q is currently based in Boulder, CO, working on his new podcast and writing his first book.

• (2:06)- Zen Buddhism's Eightfold Path and personal growth.
• (6:47) – Buddhism, compassion, and social justice.
• (14:43) – Buddhist ceremony and personal growth.
• (20:43) – Meditation, mindfulness, and personal growth.
• (27:06) – Zen Buddhism and practice in Japan.
• (36:21) – Meditation, routines, and finding peace.
• (40:38) – Finding freedom through rigor and discipline.

On the subtlety and majesty of the flowers, and their capacity to bring our human bodies back to Nature.

Katie Hess is an expert of flower alchemy - using the healing power of flowers to awaken our true potential. She is the author of Flowerevolution and founder of LOTUSWEI, the world's leading flower elixir apothecary. She travels in search of rare flowers with the healing qualities most needed by today's world, from the forests of British Columbia, to sacred sites in India, rainforests in Costa Rica, hot springs in Iceland and the jungles of Taiwan.

• Using the subtle energies of the flowers to bring ourselves back to harmony [03:00]
• What brought Katie to this work [8:14]
• Building community [9:35]
• There is a flower for everyone. Formulating the elixirs [13:10]
• Developing self-awareness of what we need [17:51]
• Acupuncture and flower essences [20:32]
• Elena's favorite flower essences [24:05]
• Reconnecting with your own wisdom [29:33]
• Allowing yourself the luxury of following what brings you joy [31:14]
• Activating our potential [32:52]

https://www.lotuswei.com/

Flowerevolution collective
Flowerevolution book and deck
Infinite Love Quiet Mind
Wild Abundance
Full Bloom
Inner Peace
Meditations
Erin Borbet https://www.lotuswei.com/blogs/blog/erinborbetRobin Sandomirsky

On the harrowing reality from the hospital floor, two actions we can take to stop the spread, and the stories we craft to help us cope.

• Being open to learning. Basing recommendations on scientific data [06:08]
• Considering what it feels like to be unable to breathe easily [07:40]
• There are still no consistently effective treatments for Covid-19 [8:42]
• Why earlier hospitalization can make a difference [9:36]
• Dr. Lyon's experience of treating Covid-19 patients [11:21]
• Doing what we can to protect others [13:54]
• Difference between N95 and surgical masks [16:59]
• Schools. Protecting teachers and elders in three generation homes [17:55]
• Why people want to believe false stories [20:10]
• Finding ways to help [25:20]

Dr. Anthony Lyon is a Family Medicine physician, working as a dedicated in-patient physician or Hospitalist in New York for the last decade. He's also the former Director of The Ash Center for Comprehensive Medicine, where he specialized in uncovering root causes of patients' health concerns to resolve fatigue, chronic pain and overall imbalance.

On a new definition of politics, and caring for ourselves through this.

• Sustainability vs growth [3:26]
• Bridging personal transformation and politics [5:22]
• The origins of CTZNWELL [9:31]
• White supremacy and the wellness community [12:20]
• Reckoning. Staying curious. Expanding your practice to include staying informed [14:15]
• Questions to ask about the governance of wellness [20:45]
• Considering wellbeing on a national level [22:48]
• Holding uncertainty [25:05]
• Building communities that include political literacy, action and care [26:17]
• Why healing is political [29:30]

Kerri is the founder of CTZNWELL, a movement to mobilize the wellbeing community into a powerful force for change. Her work was sparked on 9-11, when she lost her step-dad, a fireman, in the towers. She quickly discovered the power of yoga and mindfulness, not just as a tool for personal healing, but as a catalyst for collective change. Since then, Kerri has worked passionately to organize communities around the fight for justice and wellbeing.

A yoga teacher, public speaker and change-agent - Kerri is recognized across communities for her inspired work to bridge transformational practice with social change and politics. She's been instrumental in translating the tools of wellbeing into practical application and social action in the public sector, working in collaboration with community organizers, spiritual leaders and policy makers. Her leadership has inspired a movement to democratize wellbeing that is actively organizing around issues of economic and racial justice, universal healthcare, civic engagement and more.

You can find Kerri on CTZN Podcast, a courageous conversation that is reimagining a citizenship where everyone belongs. And check out her TED talks for more about her story.

ctznwell.org
CTZN podcast
Kerri Kelly interviewing Robin DiAngelo
Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth
WELLREAD: FREE weekly toolkit with everything you need to get in the know, take action and stay well along the way.

On the core of communication, and some myths we can release.

• Approaching yoga poses with questions rather than rules [1:50]
• Non-violent communication. Connecting with ourselves. Recognizing mutuality [8:33]
• Communicating as a parent [17:36]
• Trust. Telling the truth with empathy. Saying no while staying in connection [22:37]
• Self-empathy practice [27:24]
• A common yoga myth about the pelvis in seated twists [32:44]
• Body leading, mind following [40:36]
• Sweet Body poem reading [43:22]

Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., PT, C-IAYT, E-RYT-500, YACEP®, has taught yoga around the world since 1971. She is a founder of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco, CA, as well as the Yoga Journal magazine which is published in a number of countries. Ms. Lasater frequently trains teachers in virtually every state of the union and is often an invited guest at international yoga conventions. She is president emeritus of the California Yoga Teachers' Association as well as the author of numerous articles on yoga and health for nationally recognized magazines.

She was featured in Self Magazine in1998 as one of the outstanding yoga teachers in the U.S. In 2000, she was selected by Yoga Journal Magazine as one of the outstanding yoga teachers shaping yoga practice in America today. She was selected by Natural Health magazine, on the occasion of their 40th anniversary, as one of the five people in the USA who has had the most influence on natural health in America during those 40 years. In 2015, Yoga Journal Magazine selected her as "Editor's Choice for the most influential yoga teacher in the USA in the last 40 years.

She is the author of ten books, including: Yoga Myths: What You Need to Learn and Unlearn to Stay Safe and Happy on Your Yoga Mat (2020) Restore and Rebalance: Yoga for Deep Relaxation (2017, What We Say Matters: Practicing Nonviolent Communication (2009),YogaBody: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana (2009), A Year of Living Your Yoga (2006), Yoga Abs (2005), Yoga for Pregnancy: What Every Mom-to-Be Needs to Know (2004), 30 Essential Yoga Poses: for beginning students and their teachers (2003), Living Your Yoga: finding the spiritual in everyday life (2000), and Relax and Renew: restful yoga for stressful times (1995), and Living Your Yoga: finding the spiritual in everyday life (2000).

https://www.judithhansonlasater.com/
Poems by Judith
Yoga Myths, Judith Hanson Lasater
What We Say Matters, Judith Hanson Lasater and Ike K Lasater
Restore and Rebalance, Judith Hanson Lasater
Nonviolent Communication, Marshall B. Rosenberg
Lying, Sam Harris

Justin Michael Williams works at the intersection of music, mindfulness, and social justice. With his groundbreaking book, Stay Woke, and over a decade of teaching experience, Justin has become a pioneering voice for diversity and inclusion in wellness.

• Ending Racism Manifesto [1:40]
• The five assumptions we make about why racism persists [8:33]
• Justin's process of writing the Manifesto [15:40]
• Racism is learned [18:30]
• Questioning the idea that racism can not end [21:29]
• Race is not real, although the effects of racism are [22:51]
• Looking to real stories as evidence that people can change [28:50]
• Widespread change has happened in short periods of time [35:10]
• Solutions exist, but we all need to be ready and willing for them to work [38:35]
• What you can do [48:02]

justinmichaelwilliams.com
Read the Manifesto and Sign the Pledge
Donate to The Dream Bigger Foundation
Listen The Turning, by Justin Michael Williams

On the vital ways in which we approach practice for mental health.

Julie Wald is the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, Inner Wealth: How Wellness Heals, Nurtures, and Optimizes Ultra-Successful People, and the founder of Namaste Wellness. Julie has over twenty-five years of experience as a clinical social worker, yoga and meditation teacher. She's committed to serving not only Namaste's elite clientele of high performing companies and families, but also to delivering complimentary wellness services to under served schools, hospitals, and community organizations.

https://www.namasteny.com/live-online-corporate-wellness

On womanhood, excellence, Blackness, and our crucial collaborations in parenting, partnership, and creativity.

• Rebirthing many times throughout life [3:57]
• Women, Southern culture and power [5:15]
• Demonstrating Black Excellence [12:10]
• Seeking out Black culture [18:14]
• Not letting the dominant culture confuse you [21:52]
• A different kind of leadership [24:55]
• Detaching from things that define us. Coming back different [29:51]
• Finding the upside of the split [38:11]
• Representation matters. How we treat people is cultural [42:05]
• Penelope's poem. Listening fully when people tell us who they are [52:38]

Author, activist, beauty explorer and mother of 5, Jodie holds the position of Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, our nation's largest LGBT organization. As a globally recognized activist, she speaks on topics of radical parenting, identity, and gender.

When her son announced at the age of 3 "Mama I'm not a girl. I'm a boy", Jodie set out to inform herself, shift her own bias and change the way her community understands gender. Chronicling that journey in her memoir, The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation, hailed by Alice Walker as "Marvelous." Cosmopolitan Magazine filmed a mini-documentary on her family in 2016, garnering over 11 million views.

Jodie's second book, Born Ready: The True Story Of A Boy Named Penelope allows her childrens' voices to be heard. They show us how an entire community can be flexible and change for those they love.

She's also a long-standing entrepreneur, co-founding two beauty companies, receiving Beauty Skin Expert of the Year award by Cosmopolitan Magazine. Jodie co-owns Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, the iconic live performance venue in NYC.

Along with the work she does with the Human Rights Campaign, Jodie is on Mount Sinai's Institute for Health Equity Research Task Force, the Advisory Board of the Ackerman Institute's Gender & Family Project, and Mount Sinai's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery Advisory Board. The United Nations has recognized me as a Champion of Change.

Jodie lives in Brooklyn where she co-raises her children with love, education and family solidarity.

Jodie Patterson
The Bold World, Jodie Patterson
Born Ready, Jodie Patterson
The Human Rights Campaign
Points of Pride
Ackerman Institute for the Family
Jazz Jennings

On homeschooling as reclaiming learning, prioritizing in a busy household and the gifts of boredom.

• Making the decision to homeschool [2:03]
• Keeping rhythms with non-attachment [8:57]
• Being driven by children's interest. Choosing. Focusing [12:31]
• Reclaiming our learning. Giving ownership to the children [21:48]
• Interoception. Subtracting and letting kids get bored [23:14]
• Surviving as a family. Choosing values and saying them out loud [27:15]
• Being generous with yourself so that you can be more generous [32:10]
• Recognizing developmental stages [38:42]
• Working while homeschooling. Knowing your priorities. Love languages [39:56]

Johanna Nichols is a mama to 4, an artist and Waldorf inspired homeschooler. Professionally trained as a chef, everything she thought she knew about food changed when her first son was diagnosed with severe food allergies. Her life's work is creating ceremony and rituals that re-connect us to the earth, health and home. She is deeply focused on the empowerment of women and creates circles and courses that honor how we can lead and live in a way closer to the earth, her seasons and the lunar cycle. Children come to her house from blocks away for bandaids and know she is never too busy to apply lavender to a sting.

Martha McAlpine is a student, a listener, a leader. A homeschool mama, a Love, a professional yoga teacher. She has been a workshop facilitator, a multimedia producer, and an information architect for Fortune 500 companies during the .com boom. Her studies include a degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a master's degree in Experiential Curriculum Design from Harvard's Graduate School of Education. She has practiced and taught yoga publicly and privately for over 25 years and leads the philosophy portion of the YogaWorks advanced teacher training in Baltimore. Her passion and purpose is to teach how to connect our self to our Self. Having traveled and lived around the world, she now lives with her kids outside of Baltimore, MD overlooking the Patapsco river.

Martha McAlpine
Johanna Nichols
Guided Within Collective
You are your child's first teacher, Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Waldorf Schools
Love Languages
Parenting Passageway

On the history of black maternal health, how we can change the story, and parenting our kids as actualized beings.

• The Black Maternal Health crisis [1:58]
• Gynecology and its origins in slavery [6:09]
• The need for a reckoning. Reenvisioning a holistic view and a service model [10:17]
• Ways to be involved [14:51]
• Mama Glow Doula professional training program scholarship fund [30:19]
• Learning and unlearning [34:07]
• Parenting teenagers. Leaning into resilience and using our tools [36:13]

Named one of Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul 100, Celebrity Doula and Maternity Wellness Expert Latham Thomas supports women in embracing optimal wellness and spiritual growth as a pathway to empowerment. Latham is leading a revolution in radical self-care, guiding women everywhere to "mother themselves first." Latham is the founder of Mama Glow a global women's health and education brand serving women along the childbearing continuum. Mama Glow supports women and families during the fertility period, pregnancy, birth as well as during postpartum offering hand-holding through their bespoke doula services. Her book, Own Your Glow: A Soulful Guide to Luminous Living and Crowning the Queen (Hay House) released on paperback on June 16, 2020.

http://www.mamaglow.com
Own Your Glow, Latham Thomas
The 1619 Project podcast
Black Maternal Momnibus
Irth App
Anti-racism daily

On compassion in the context of activism, building a culture of care, and cultivating enthusiasm to save our democracy.

• Being radically human [2:42]
• Sharing peace in a way that incites action [4:24]
• Our responsibility to each other. Information and discernment [6:21]
• Planting seeds of love and compassion [12:52]
• Changing our opinions over time [18:00]
• Immigration detainment camps. Focusing on human values [22:28]
• Leading with what inspires us [27:13]
• Operating from our humanity when we disagree [31:09]
• What needs healing [40:37]
• Favourite view [43:00]
• Prayer [43:40]

Reggie is a leading activist, strategist, and teacher with experience in fields ranging from global marketing, digital and community organizing, government relations, international education to Presidential campaigning. He currently serves as a senior political strategist for a leading progressive organization, a hybrid of communications, public speaking, strategy, relationship building, issue advocacy, mass mobilizations and electoral campaign work.

Reggie is also a 500 hour certified yoga teacher and author of a thesis entitled, "Yoga and Spiritual Activism: Serving Humanity from a Sense of Devotion and Love." He has studied extensively with leading teachers such as Faith Hunter, Amy Ippolitti, Yogarupa Rod Stryker, Sri Dharma Mittra as well as many amazing teachers along the way. He teaches Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, leading progressive organizations and individuals, sharing techniques for growing peace and ease as a foundation, not an afterthought in his teaching practice, Active Peace Yoga.

In July 2020, Reggie helped launch a grassroots campaign along with David Lipsius, Amy Ippoliti, Jack Kornfeld and Tara Brach called Buddhists and Yogis United. This is an effort to share information and inspire teachers and their respective communities to encourage active civic participation in the upcoming election and beyond. The times require our active engagement in social change - we must move beyond talk toward courageous and inspired action.

He holds a BA in Philosophy from Yale, and an international MBA from the Vlerick Business School in Belgium.

Reggie Hubbard
Buddhist and Yogins United
MoveOn https://front.moveon.org/Rabbit Hole podcast
Ctznwell
http://www.activepeaceyoga.com
Op-Ed in The Hill about social justice after George Floyd:
Buddhist and Yogis United Initiative
spiritual activism with Ethan Nichtern and Dharma Vote

 On shifting the way we perceive our capacities as humans and as parents, focusing on relational connection and possibility.

• (4:14) – Mindset shift for work-parent conflict.
• (13:28) – Work-parenting challenges and unhelpful labels.
• (18:50) – Embracing challenges and finding opportunities in life.
• (26:50) – Managing stress and finding resilience through self-compassion.
• (33:18) – Nonviolent communication and parenting.

In Work, Parent, Thrive, Yael shares practical strategies from clinical psychology and social science to better manage the conflict and enhance enrichment in work, parenting, and the balance of these meaningful roles. While these strategies won't create more hours in the day, they can shift how we label our experiences, revise the stories we tell ourselves about working and parenting, and recognize the value we get from each role on its own, and in combination with one another.

Yael Schonbrun, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, assistant professor at Brown University, co-host of Psychologists Off the Clock: A podcast about the science and practice of living well, and mother of three. Yael's academic research explores the interaction between relationship problems and mental health conditions. She has authored chapters in several books and has written dozens of scientific articles. In her private practice, writing, and podcasting, Yael uses evidence-based science to help individuals and couples learn to manage work, parenting, and marriage in more effective and fulfilling ways. She draws upon treatments that integrate ancient Eastern philosophy with scientifically backed practices. Yael's writing on work, parenting, and relationships has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Greater Good Science Center, Behavioral Scientist, Kveller, Lilith Magazine, The Wise Brain Bulletin, Psychology Today, and Motherly. Her new book is Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like too Much).

Yael lives outside of Boston with her husband and their three small comedians.

https://yaelschonbrun.com/

On showing up for your writing with devotion. On reading as writing; writing as reading. On humility as wisdom.

Albert Flynn DeSilver is a poet, memoirist, speaker, master mindfulness meditation teacher and workshop leader teaching nationally at the Omega Institute, Spirit Rock, 1440 MUltiversity, Shambhala Mountain Center, the Esalen Institute, and at writing conferences nationally. Albert has read and shared the stage with International bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Elizabeth Gilbert, Maxine Hong Kingston, and many others. His recent book, "Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life," based on his popular meditation and writing retreats by the same name—was released from Sounds True in September of 2017. He is also the author of several books of poems and the memoir "Beamish Boy," (2012) which Kirkus Reviews called "a beautifully written memoir, poignant and inspirational." He lives in Northern California.

For Practice You listeners Albert is giving away FREE copies of his popular book from Sounds True "Writing as a Path to Awakening" + a 7-Track guided meditation program "Creativity Meditations for Writers, Artists, and Other Humans" (all we ask is $7.95 for shipping and handling) You can grab your copy at: brilliantwriter.com/free-book

On clearing biotoxicity and creating work that heals.

• Biotoxicity [2:17]
• The Milk Cleanse [7:07]
• The genesis of NeuroPraxis [11:21]
• The importance of knowing your own body [19:46]
• Ayurveda and balance [23:10]
• Slowing down and appreciating time [23:43]
• Prayer [28:04]

• Jody Levy is an artist, designer, director, educator, entrepreneur, executive and investor from the Detroit area who lives between Denver and New York City.

  Jody is the founder, creative director and Chief Executive Officer of a handful of companies dedicated to empowering people to be as healthy and happy as possible. These companies include:

  World Waters | WTRMLN WTR is a company and brand committed to redefining how and what we drink to nourish our bodies and sustain our ecosystem. The mission of World Waters and WTRMLN WTR is to educate people about why clean healthy eating is so important for the health and sustainability of our communities.

  NeuroPraxis is a digital app featuring NeuroScultping modules specific for overcoming pain, PTSD, stress, and symptoms associated with Biotoxic exposure including Lyme Disease, Mold disease, viruses, parasites, and more. This company and product has been co-created with author and NeuroSculpting founder Lisa Wimberger.

  The Milk Cleanse, a detox cleanse product also for alleviating symptoms associated with biotoxic exposure. The Milk Cleanse is launching spring 2020. A percentage of sales goes towards the awareness and prevention of Lyme Disease, parasites, and other tick-borne illnesses. This company and product has been co-created with author and integrative medicine doctor Dr. Linda Lancaster.

  Jody Levy is a partner, advisor, and investor in many category disrupting brands and companies connected to the clean living, wellness lifestyle space that empower people to take care of themselves and optimize their happiness and purpose. This includes companies that focus on biohacking, clean energy, personalized medicine, alternative wellness, sustainable fitness, clean food and more. Some featured brands include GEM&BOLT Mezcal, Bulletproof, Thrive Market, Parsley Health, The WELL, Inscape, Pinata and more.

  Resources

  wtrmlnwtr.com
  jodydlevy.com
  NeuroPraxis
  Neurosculpting, Lisa Wimberger
  The Milk Cleanse, Use code "elenabrower" for 10% off

On the life-changing conversations of race, the majestic presence of lineage, and the vital, daily work of loving yourself.

• The birth of The Jacy Method [2:15]
• On feeling alone in a community [7:01]
• The importance of expressing joy and showing up as yourself [9:39]
• Jacy's morning marriage practice [16:42]
• On living multiple lives as a Black person [24:52]
• The opportunity to have conversations about racism [32:57]
• Eye gazing [39:01]
• Whiteness in the wellness space [41:50]
• Knowing what came before. Restoring your relationship with your ancestors [46:33]

Jacy Cunningham, Creator of The Jacy Method, is a dynamic Movement Therapist, Group Fitness Instructor, and Motivational Speaker. As a former Collegiate football player and performance athlete, Jacy has trained with some of best performance coaches in the world. When his own football journey ended in 2012, Jacy moved to Eden, Utah and became the In-House fitness instructor for the famed entrepreneurial conference & start-up Summit Series. After serving their community for 4 years, Jacy left Summit to travel and create a new movement focused on harnessing self-love through dynamic and therapeutic movements. From the fall of 2016 to the summer of 2018 Jacy traveled with numerous touring musicians (Mike Posner, GRiZ, DJ Jazzy Jeff), launched his personal brand and class The Jacy Method and signed to Wanderlust Festival as a featured Instructor. Now as a Nomad, Jacy continues to travel, teach, and host at a variety of music and wellness festivals across the world.

http://www.thejacymethod.com
Metu Neter, Ra Un Nefer
The End of White World Supremacy, Malcolm X
Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon

On transcending our instincts, practicing what scares us, seeing where we coincide, and choosing our state.

After spending a year as a Bartley fellow at the Wall Street Journal, Chloé Valdary developed The Theory of Enchantment, an innovative framework for social emotional learning (SEL), character development, and interpersonal growth that uses pop culture as an educational tool in the classroom and beyond.

Chloé has trained around the world, including in South Africa, The Netherlands, Germany, and Israel. Her clients have included high school and college students, government agencies, business teams, + many more.

She has also lectured in universities across America, including Harvard and Georgetown. Her work has been covered in Psychology Today Magazine and her writings have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall St Journal.

• Chlo�'s earliest teachers [3:05]
• Theory of Enchantment's guiding principles [5:12]
• Timshel, Thou Mayest. East of Eden. Stoicism [13:03]
• Non-violent protest. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Agape Love [22:00]
• Meditating on your mortality. Practicing what you fear [28:44]
• Criticism and care. Maya Angelou and Tupac story [31:18]
• The Lion King and stoicism [37:40]
• Contemplating the villain. Ways to practice [40:22]
• What needs healing [49:47]
• Favourite view [50:49]
• Prayer [52:39]

Theory of Enchantment Courses
Theory of Enchantment website
Chloé Valdary on Twitter:
Why I Refuse to Avoid White People article
Harriet Tubman, Eloise Greenfield
Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
East of Eden, John Steinbeck https://amzn.to/35WwpB1
Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday
Timshel, Mumford & Sons

Erin is a travel, culture and lifestyle documentary photographer, creative culture consultant, writer and founder of Black Burner Project. After discovering her love for photography on a solo trip the Philippines, she has placed travel photography at the center of her personal work.

• Erin's first experience of Burning Man [3:17]
• What moved Erin to create the Black Burner Project [10:01]
• The feeling of being one of few [14:08]
• Inspiring potential burners by making people feel seen [20:04]
• Erin's story about the Afro Pick installation [23:23]
• Favourite view [29:00]
• Prayer [31:52]
• Creating the Group Photo and what it meant to people [32:59]
• Reevaluating hierarchy [37:10]
• The Cultural collective of Burning Man [40:04]

Erin creates visually moving imagery to help brands and individuals, usually in the lifestyle and travel space, convey a more organic brand story to aid in marketing their product or service and connect with their audience. As a creative consultant Erin specializes in inclusive storytelling and thoughtfully curated experiences for companies with diversity and inclusion goals both internally and externally.

She created Black Burner project in 2018, returning to Burning Man a second year to document people of color through photography and sharing their personal stories; with a mission to create a space where Burners of color can be seen, to encourage the apprehensive yet curious, create awareness around the event, show the importance of representation and drive diversity. Erin has curated a word of mouth surprise Burners of color group photo at Burning Man increasing the gathering from 35 people in 2018 to 250 people in 2019, becoming the largest gathering of people of color in Burning Man history. Some of her goals include a yearly artist of color grant through the project, tickets to be able to gift to virgin burners of color, and curating immersive art events both on and off playa.

Erin is also a regular speaker on the importance and transformative power of traveling. As a travel advocate, she has spoken in schools, workshops and travel conferences. Her written and photography work has been featured in publications such as Essence, The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, "Shut Up and Run", Travel Noire, and Conde Nast and photo Exhibitions from Miami to NYC.

Erin's Mission: To tell stories- both visual and written that help inform and inspire others to action

blackburnerproject.com
Dear White burners piece
https://www.instagram.com/blackburnerproject/

Meet Moses
Cultural Course Correcting by Marian Goodell

On connecting to Nature, our wisest innermost council, and our deepest compassion.

• Managing chaos [2:44]
• Understanding the need to project chaos outwards [6:23]
• Tools that Pixie is using and sharing right now [10:13]
• Asking for help and managing resources [17:07]
• Disassociation and discernment [19:04]
• Shamanic arts. Returning to the core of peace within [21:30]
• Building your council. Releasing control [27:59]
• What needs healing [36:54]
• Favourite view [38:09]
• Prayer [39:29]
• Death and grieving [41:49]
• Meditative prayer from Pixie [50:19]

Pixie's Worksheets
Prayers of Honoring, Pixie Lighthorse
Alberto Villoldo
The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo
Reimagining Death, Lucinda Herring
Sierra Campbell

On the past as fuel for the future, the realities of race, and the magic of making records.

• Jeff's earliest musical influences [3:37]
• His first experience of racism [6:40]
• Creating his own blueprint for life [11:10]
• Speaking to his children about what it means to be Black in America [15:16]
• Favorite moments with Bad Boy [22:16]
• The night that Biggie was murdered [26:22]
• Artists Jeff is most excited about now [31:39]
• Favorite view [38:06]
• Prayer [40:01]
• Delivering art to shift culture [42:00]

Kanye West

Kaash Paige
YG
Bino Rideaux
QUIN
1619 Project
Color of Change
When We All Vote

Jeff Burroughs' leverages pop culture, bridging the gap to cultural relevance for brand initiatives and to build artist brands.

He's had the pleasure of working with some of today's most innovative brands and been fortunate enough to have developed successful brand strategies for award winning-world class artists like YG, P Diddy and 2 Chains, top rated television programs like the XFactor and a host of cpg companies. As Executive Vice President of Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy became one of the highest grossing conglomerates in the entertainment industry and shifted culture.

On racism recovery as psychological, individual and collective healing.

• How April came to her work [2:35]
• Racism from a psychological perspective [11:12]
• Narcissism and codependency [18:43]
• White privilege. Complicity [23:00]
• Treating perpetrators. Defense mechanisms [26:08]
• Co-dependent racist savorism and anti-racist education on Instagram [33:19]
• Racist rejection of whiteness and cultural appropriation [57:51]
• Building trust and being trustworthy [59:50]
• Psychoanalysing racism and evidence-based practices [1:10:55]
• Stages of change [1:33:25]

April is a former medical social worker, where she provided counseling to her patients and their family members to help them cope with the trauma of medical emergencies in the state of Texas. She later moved to Colorado and started her private practice to serve QTPOC patients with a history of racial trauma. After having worked with QTPOC, she decided to help prevent racism in society by working with white clients as a coach using the Racist Signature Theory. Finally, she opened up the Racism Recovery Center to provide psychotherapy for the treatment of racism.

https://www.racismrecoverycenter.com/
Racism Recovery Center
Developing Self Trust
Disparity in History textbooks
All About Love, Bell Hooks
The Courage to Trust, Cynthia Lynn Wall
My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem
Chloe Valdary, Theory of Enchantment
Dr. Gabor Mate

On scarcity in schools, committing to our edification, wealth as activism, and standing back to back as we heal.

Jesse Johnson is a master sales and success coach, specializing in helping spiritual entrepreneurs build 7-figure businesses. An artist, activist, and educator, Jesse's career began with 12 years teaching math in NYC public schools. Frustrated by the limits of both bureaucracy and poverty, she founded her own personal development company and blew her own mind taking it to 7 figures in just 2 years. Jesse now teaches coaches, spiritual leaders, and healers to experience sales as a spiritual practice and match their income with their personal mastery - no compromise, no self-sacrifice, no mediocrity.

• Jesse's experience of teaching in NYC public schools [0:45]
• How Jesse came to start her own business [10:19]
• Wealth as activism [14:03]
• Lifting others up from a place of alignment [19:07]
• What needs healing [21:48]
• Favourite view [23:32]
• Prayer [26:03]
• Money and liberation [28:02]
• Integrating physical identity with spiritual truth. Conversations about race [29:55]

http://jessejohnsoncoaching.com/
Jesse's YouTube channel
Mastering Sales eBook
Kate LaBrosse
This is Me, Bipolar-Free, Kate LaBrosse
Erika Matos
SriKala

On the voyage of service, what still needs our attention, connecting to Mother Earth, and majestic remembrance.

Nadine McNeil, is a yoga teacher, speaker, transformational coach and humanitarian whose mission is to ignite infinite possibility in people around the world and share yoga with diverse underserved communities.

Over the last few decades, Nadine has travelled the world in service of the UN, UNICEF, Global Volunteer Network and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. These and other experiences rooted Nadine's continued devotion to activism.

Inspired by her firsthand encounters with both the resilience of the human spirit and also its suffering, Nadine's talks, workshops, yoga sessions and retreats are continually described as powerful, moving and insightful.

• Trust, Truth and Dare. Choosing a word as a compass [0:45]
• Releasing trauma from the body. Connecting to the earth [8:51]
• Nadine's humanitarian work with the UN [15:25]
• Nadine's transition into yoga [24:14]
• How Nadine merged all of her passions and gifts [29:23]
• What needs to be healed [33:24]
• Favorite view [35:17]
• Prayer [35:56]
• What the body knows [36:50]

https://www.universalempress.com/
Nadine's 21-Day Reset Program
Transformational Women's Circles
Race Corona, On World Yoga Day
My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem
On Being podcast with Resmaa Menakem
Michael Moore podcast
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

On the Way of Tea, the practice of service, the meaning of presence and the medicine of silence.

• (1:46) – Tea, presence, and mindfulness.
• (5:48) – Tea, meditation, and prison reform.
• (11:52) – Buddhist chaplaincy training and tea practices.
• (16:26) – Acting, producing, and healing.
• (22:37) – Meditation, mindfulness, and Zen Buddhism.
• (32:14) – Music, prison reform, and personal growth.

Mia Maestro most recently wrapped Oscar-nominee Jose Rivera's Castro's Daughter, directed by Miguel Bardem. She appears in the Apple+ Scott Z. Burns' climate change anthology Extrapolations starring opposite Ed Norton.

Mia is a citizen of the world, traveling, surfing, scuba diving, and warming her spirit through the practice of Cha Dao, The Way of Tea. She's passionate about prison reform and serves tea to the incarcerated through Healing Dialogue and Action in the state of California.

https://miamaestro.com

On whiteness in wellness, our responsibility, our clumsiness and our commitments.

• Creating Wanderlust [4:41]
• Spirituality and Civic engagement [16:30]
• Acknowledging complicity. The role of the wellness teacher [20:39]
• Black Lives Matter protests. Witnessing glimpses of Oneness [29:21]
• Grace for clumsiness. Taking moral inventory [36:33]
• Reframing the notion of separation [43:39]
• Shaping the world in small moments [47:59]

Jeff attended The Hotchkiss School and received his BA in 1993 from Columbia University. In 2008, Jeff created the concept for Wanderlust, a series of large-scale events combining yoga & wellness with the arts.

In 2018, Jeff founded Commune Media, an online learning platform for personal and societal well-being. As CEO, Jeff focuses on talent relationships, business development and building a stellar team. He also hosts the Commune podcast, interviewing a wide variety of guests from Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson to Brendon Burchard and Russell Brand.

Jeff serves on the board of Pure Edge, a non-profit organization dedicated to integrating yoga and mindfulness curriculum into the public school system. Jeff is a contributor to the Huffington Post and Fast Company. Jeff has written two books, Wanderlust & Find Your True Fork and pens a weekly newsletter called Commusings.

In 2016, he was selected by Oprah Winfrey to be part of the SuperSoul100 as one of the nation's leading entrepreneurs.

In 1995, Jeff married Schuyler Grant, his college sweetheart. Schuyler, a yoga teacher and director of Kula Yoga Project, served as the inspiration for Wanderlust. Jeff & Schuyler have three beautiful daughters, Phoebe, Lolli and Micah. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.

http://www.onecommune.com/
http://www.jeffkrasno.com/

Wanderlust
Commune
Pure Edge
Kula Yoga
Heavy - Kiese Laymon
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo

On studentship, using your art to heal, and becoming heavy enough to hold it all.

Kiese Laymon is the author of three books, most recently the NY Times bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir. He is a Professor of English born and raised in Jackson Mississippi.

• The places we stay [3:26]
• What inspired Kiese to write Heavy to his mother [5:05]
• The consequences of masking pain [7:18]
• How learning requires failure [11:31]
• Parenting and secrets [14:25]
• The importance of tender touch [18:25]
• What does it mean to repair damage done? [21:43]
• The overlapping problems with police [25:19]
• Gambling addiction and recovery [29:50]
• Kiese's Grandmother. Embodying love. Heavy enough [36:03]

Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon on Dani Shapiro's podcast Family Secrets

On choosing conscious shocks, conscious suffering and crystallizing your commitment to daily bliss.

• The Fourth Way [1:30]
• The law of divided attention [8:28]
• The law of aim [12:20]
• The law of identification [15:12]
• The law of shocks [20:54]
• The law of three [27:05]
• The law of self-remembering [30:55]
• Unnecessary vs necessary suffering [33:06]
• Buffers. How much joy can you stand? [36:45]
• The law of death [41:39]
• The law of crystallization [46:50]

Biet is the world-renowned meditation leader dubbed the "Lady Gaga of Meditation." As a musician, Biet weaves the world of pop culture and spirituality, teaching practical applications of ancient spiritual wisdom. The teachings are featured in Biet's best selling book, 'Don't Just Sit There!' published by Simon & Schuster.

Biet Simkin website
Guided by Biet on Instagram
Don't just sit there, Biet Simkin
Biet Simkin music https://open.spotify.com/track/5WUQMoFM0zGfTmFfs3AoIL?si=4GaEP7muT_64_D7wUbAnLQ
Views from the Real World - Gurdjieff
Self Remembering - Red Hawk h
The Overstory - Richard Powers
Self-Remembering - Robert Earl Burton
Hildegard non Bingen music
The Lunar