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Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher and practitioner, racial equity consultant and trainer, and intuitive healer. She approaches her life and work from a place of knowing we are, can, and must heal individually and collectively. Michelle teaches workshops and immersions and leads retreats and transformative experiences nationwide. As a dismantling racism educator, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups. Michelle was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with embodied approaches to racial equity work, creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. Michelle published the first edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; and the 2nd edition of Skill in Action in November 2021, published by Shambhala Publications. Her second book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, was published by Shambhala Publications in 2021. Her third book, We Heal Together: Rituals and Practice for Building Community and Connection, published by Shambhala Publications, explores the deep knowing and truth that we are interconnected; we belong to one another. We Heal Together offers rituals and practices meant to dream us into a new way of being to benefit the highest and fullest good. Her latest book, A Space For Us: A Guide For Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups, was published by Beacon Press in August 2023. Michelle leads courageously from the heart with compassion and a commitment to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes for many because of the harm it creates. She inspires change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. In this conversation, Michelle and Anjali discuss: Kleshas as an inquiry: Michelle's new book on kleshas What does healing mean when the world is ablaze? Our collective nervous systems Michelle's writing as a practice of reclamation and re-connection Her go to rituals during the writing process Role of community care and collective How does she practice care as a space holder? Connect with Michelle on her website or on Instagram @skillinaction You can receive 30% off if you pre-order Illuminating Our True Nature from Shambhala Publications. Use TRUENATURE30 at checkout. Free Resources for Teachers We are grateful for the support of our podcast partner OfferingTree — an all-in-one, easy to use business platform for classes, courses, memberships and more. Check it out at www.offeringtree.com/accessibleyoga.

In this episode with Michelle Casandra Johnson, we cover the importance of the grieving process and having practices that support it. We discuss how our practices have shifted since Covid-19 and the things we hope will not go back. Michelle talks about working with our ancestors and learning from their traumas and resistance as well as her special connection to her honey bees. Michelle wrote the foreward for my forthcoming book, The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga out with Shambhala Publications in May 2023. It was wonderful to connect with her here. Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. As a dismantling racism trainer, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, Auburn Seminary, Kripalu, Mercedes, Spotify, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; the second edition of Skill in Action, published by Shambhala Publication, comes out November 2nd, 2021. She teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle's latest book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by Shambhala Publications, came out in July 2021. Her upcoming book, We Heal Together: Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection, published my Shambhala Publications, is available for pre-order now and comes out in April 2023. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world. Michelle's Website & Instagram ----------------------------------------- Your support is deeply appreciated! Find me, Lara, on my Website / Instagram You can support this podcast with any level of donation here. Opening and Closing music: Other People's Photographs courtesy of Daniel Zaitchik. Follow Daniel on Spotify.

What if your intuition guided you to move across the country, give-up your private practice and do so without knowing exactly where you were going to land and work?  Or what if it told you to buy a house sight unseen—like not even having seen a picture of it—would you?  Well, you would if you were in touch with your intuition and knew it for the powerful and life affirming source that it is.  That's exactly what my guest Michelle Cassandra Johnson did—and doing so reshaped her life in amazing ways she couldn't have imagined. Michelle and I talk making intuitive decisions, big and little, as well as daily rituals and practices that make this social just warrior and anti-racism teacher's intuition clear rather than cloudy.  All that on today's Own Your Intuition Show.SHOW NOTES:Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. As a dismantling racism trainer, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, Auburn Seminary, Kripalu, Mercedes, Spotify, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a JustWorld in 2017; the second edition of Skill in Action, publishedby Shambhala Publication, comes out November 2nd, 2021. She teaches workshopsin yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle's latest book, FindingRefuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by ShambhalaPublications, came out in July 2021. Her upcoming book, WeHeal Together: Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection,published my Shambhala Publications, is available for pre-order now and comesout in April 2023.  Michelle C Johnson: https://www.michellecjohnson.com Yes, tell me!  How the heck do I tell the difference between the voice of my intuition and my “fear-based” ideas?  Download the free audio here. What's this Own Your Intuition program that starts September 27th all about? 

This week, I am joined by Mika Gainer.  Mika is a meditation teacher and somatic coach who blends spiritual-scholar-activism into the workplace and beyond as an everyday practice and lifestyle. She helps folks discover how to un-pretzel emotional opposites in their pursuit of prosperity to experience the ultimate inclusive reality. Her work as a Liberation Designer, helps folks identify subtle ways to create spaces that authentically open up their inner leadership. CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY Stay in Touch with: ↳ Connect with Mika on Linkedin ↳ Schedule some time with Mika ↳ Visit the Soma Praxis Studio   Ways to support the show:    

CLICK HERE to join the VisAbleBlackwoman community for extended unedited videos of all of my interviews! Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Kerri Kelly are changing the face of antiracism training and helping folks to learn how to deal with the systems of racial oppression that disconnect us from our joy. Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Books : Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World (Second Edition) Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief Kerri Kelly's Book: American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How we can Truly Heal Michelle & Kerri's Events: The Art of Skillful Facilitation, Detox and Refuge Retreat and more!! Thanks for listening J9 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeanine-t-abraham/message

In our season 2 finale (!), Tristan (they/them) and Lauren (she/her) share updates about their lives, work, and mental health; revisit past episodes to offer context and clarity; and practice accountability for ourselves and conversations we've had on the podcast.Tune in to hear us talk about...What's new with Tristan and Lauren's work, from trans inclusion workshops to online courses to collaborationsWays that we're practicing accountability for the podcast, including community agreements and coming back to topics when harm's happenedSubtle and not-so-subtle ways transphobia is showing up todayWhy it can take a minute to realize harm has happened, even when we're the ones who've been harmedWhat abolition and defunding the police really mean (hint: it's not “chaos”) and ways we can embody those values every dayNuances of recovering from narcissistic abuse and cult-y shitHow to be there for a friend who's leaving a high-control group or relationshipWhat's coming up in season 3…and more!Check out our offerings:Tristan's workshop series Creating Safer Spaces: Embodying your Commitment to Trans InclusionLauren's anticapitalist course + community TAKE UP SPACETristan's Yoga, Social Justice, & Marketing MentorshipOther ways to get support from LaurenJoin us on Patreon and stay tuned for an upcoming workshop!People and organizations mentioned in this episode:Rashidah AliMaygen Nicholson's upcoming eventsMichelle Cassandra JohnsonOur episode “Confronting Cult-y Shit with Tatum Fjerstad”Elisabeth Epps, abolitionist candidate for Colorado House District 6Patrisse Cullors' new book, 12 Steps to Changing Yourself & the World: An Abolitionist's Handbook Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just WorldSusanna BarktakiYou can support this podcast by joining us on Patreon! Be sure to subscribe on Apple or Spotify, and leave a 5-star rating and review on Apple. We'd also love for you to take a screenshot of where the episode resonates with you and tag us in your Instagram stories at @alltfinpodcast, @tristankatzcreative, and @laurenkayroberts.Here's where you can view a transcript of this episode of ALL THE F*CK IN.Thanks to Son of Nun and DJ Mentos for the music. You can find their work at sonofnun.bandcamp.com and djmentos.com.

Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, licensed clinical social worker and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. With a deep understanding of trauma and the impact that it has on the mind, body, spirit and heart, much of her work focuses on helping people better understand how power and privilege operate in their life. She explores how privilege, power and oppression affects the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and energy body. In episode 47, Jivana and Michelle discuss: The 2nd edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World The Bhagavad Gita Bringing real world experience into yoga spaces The connection between social justice and yoga Dharma Staying inspired in social justice work Actionable Love Karma Yoga How to take your yoga off the mat Shared humanity How the 2nd edition of Skill in Action offers guidance and tools for what's happening now Michelle's next book about healing in community

Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, licensed clinical social worker and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. With a deep understanding of trauma and the impact that it has on the mind, body, spirit and heart, much of her work focuses on helping people better understand how power and privilege operate in their life. She explores how privilege, power and oppression affects the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and energy body. In episode 47, Jivana and Michelle discuss: The 2nd edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World The Bhagavad Gita Bringing real world experience into yoga spaces The connection between social justice and yoga Dharma Staying inspired in social justice work Actionable Love Karma Yoga How to take your yoga off the mat Shared humanity How the 2nd edition of Skill in Action offers guidance and tools for what's happening now Michelle's next book about healing in community

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle's work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart.  She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has worked in several non-profits and served as an elected official and on many non-profit boards of directors. She has led Dismantling Racism Trainings with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Auburn Seminary, Kripalu, Yoga Alliance, and Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017 and her newest book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief was published by Shambhala Publications in 2021. She teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide and is on the faculty of Off the Mat, Into the World. She was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with embodied approaches to racial equity work, creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. In 2020 she created her own podcast, Finding Refuge, which explores collective grief and liberation and serves as a reminder about all the ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times and of the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge. In This Episode:  The awareness that comes with awakening and how this relates to social justice. Why embodiment is the key to healing racism.  If White bodied folks don't have the resiliency to do this work, what will it take? Rest as a necessary tool for activism. The work that White bodied people have to do. The work that the BIPOC community has to do.  The practice of remembering and how we can have grace and compassion for those who are remembering. FULL SHOW NOTES Skill In Action Instagram Skill In Action Website Laura Chung Instagram Brittany Simone Anderson Instagram The Werk Podcast Instagram Awaken and Align Instagram Awaken and Align Website YouTube Channel Connect with Awaken and Align & The Werk: If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag us! Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it! Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign @thewerkpodcast Let us know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle's work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart.  She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has worked in several non-profits and served as an elected official and on many non-profit boards of directors. She has led Dismantling Racism Trainings with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Auburn Seminary, Kripalu, Yoga Alliance, and Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017 and her newest book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief was published by Shambhala Publications in 2021. She teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide and is on the faculty of Off the Mat, Into the World. She was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with embodied approaches to racial equity work, creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. In 2020 she created her own podcast, Finding Refuge, which explores collective grief and liberation and serves as a reminder about all the ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times and of the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge. In This Episode:  The awareness that comes with awakening and how this relates to social justice. Why embodiment is the key to healing racism.  If White bodied folks don't have the resiliency to do this work, what will it take? Rest as a necessary tool for activism. The work that White bodied people have to do. The work that the BIPOC community has to do.  The practice of remembering and how we can have grace and compassion for those who are remembering. FULL SHOW NOTES Laura Chung Instagram Brittany Simone Anderson Instagram The Werk Podcast Instagram Awaken and Align Instagram Awaken and Align Website YouTube Channel Connect with Awaken and Align & The Werk: If you enjoyed the podcast and you feel called, please share it and tag us! Subscribe, rate, and review the show wherever you get your podcasts. Your rating and review help more people discover it! Follow on Instagram @awakenandalign @thewerkpodcast Let us know your favorite guests, lessons, or any topic requests.

We each have maybe a handful of teachers in our lives that fundamentally shift the way we see or experience— Michelle Cassandra Johnson has been one of those teachers for me.Michelle is a true embodiment of grace, fire, compassion, and grit, and is a radiant example of how to to show up with skillfulness and heart in a dysfunctional world.Her new book Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief was released just this week, and I am so excited to dive into and savor it starting next weekend when I've carved out some special time and space to do so.I hope you enjoy this conversation with Michelle, and that if you arent' already familiar with her books and other offerings, that this will be the first of many times you get to experience her gifts.“Our culture conditions us to notice what is going on from the head up and not from the throat and heart down. The only way out is through, by way of the feelings. If we are going to make social change, we need to cultivate a practice of feeling... When one connects with their feelings as yoga teaches us to do, one can connect with their heart. If one is connected with their heart, they have the opportunity to be changed and to shift their perspective. They have the opportunity to feel the pain of living in a world that is designed to break the spirit through violence, oppression, and injustice.”— Michelle Johnson (from Skill in Action)About Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her)Michelle is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle's work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017 and her newest book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief was published by Shambhala Publications in 2021.Michelle teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide and is on the faculty of Off the Mat, Into the World. In 2020 she created her own podcast, Finding Refuge, which explores collective grief and liberation and serves as a reminder about all the ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times and of the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge.Links + Additional Resources:View these show notes on our website at https://gaiacenter.co/blog/bodyful-06Follow Michelle on Instagram @skillinactionFinding Refuge book and 40-day sadhana (sliding scale pricing)Finding Refuge podcastSkill in Action bookMichelle's upcoming eventsMichelle's race equity training

We each have maybe a handful of teachers in our lives that fundamentally shift the way we see or experience— Michelle Cassandra Johnson has been one of those teachers for me.Michelle is a true embodiment of grace, fire, compassion, and grit, and is a radiant example of how to to show up with skillfulness and heart in a dysfunctional world.Her new book Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief was released just this week, and I am so excited to dive into and savor it starting next weekend when I've carved out some special time and space to do so.I hope you enjoy this conversation with Michelle, and that if you arent' already familiar with her books and other offerings, that this will be the first of many times you get to experience her gifts.“Our culture conditions us to notice what is going on from the head up and not from the throat and heart down. The only way out is through, by way of the feelings. If we are going to make social change, we need to cultivate a practice of feeling... When one connects with their feelings as yoga teaches us to do, one can connect with their heart. If one is connected with their heart, they have the opportunity to be changed and to shift their perspective. They have the opportunity to feel the pain of living in a world that is designed to break the spirit through violence, oppression, and injustice.”— Michelle Johnson (from Skill in Action)About Michelle Cassandra Johnson (she/her)Michelle is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle's work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017 and her newest book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief was published by Shambhala Publications in 2021.Michelle teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide and is on the faculty of Off the Mat, Into the World. In 2020 she created her own podcast, Finding Refuge, which explores collective grief and liberation and serves as a reminder about all the ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times and of the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge.Links + Additional Resources:View these show notes on our website at https://gaiacenter.co/blog/bodyful-06Follow Michelle on Instagram @skillinactionFinding Refuge book and 40-day sadhana (sliding scale pricing)Finding Refuge podcastSkill in Action bookMichelle's upcoming eventsMichelle's race equity training

Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. As a dismantling racism trainer, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle's new book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by Shambhala Publications, comes out on July 13th, 2021. She was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. Recently, she created her own podcast, Finding Refuge, which explores collective grief and liberation and serves as a reminder about all the ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times and of the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world. In this episode we discuss: Stewarding grief. Acknowledging brokenheartedness to begin healing. Presence of the heart and finding refuge. Spiritual practices to bring you back home to the body and into the collective body. How oppression takes the breath away. Being in relationship with your ancestors. Collective care and justice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares about knowing your capacity and creating space to grieve in a community of support. You'll also hear about: Michelle shares her experience of being stopped by the police for no reason, other than being Black How we have been conditioned to grieve in isolation On finding liberation and freedom in grief  TV as medicine   ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment   When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle's new book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by Shambhala Publications, comes out on July 13th, 2021. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world.   In this episode, we talk about: Responding to heartbreak Remembering your roots, and bringing forth your medicine Michelle shares some stories of personal grief How Michelle's newest book was guided by Spirit Integrating grief into healing work Why we're resistant to grief On being conditioned to grieve in isolation Finding freedom and liberation through grief On calling in support from our guides and helpers Why our capacity to hold grief is limited How the Spirit can hold grief, even if our body cannot On understanding your capacity for grief Hypervigilance and why BIPOC folks need more space for rest How our capacity shifts, depending on the identities we embody On identifying what is grief and how it shows up Michelle shares her experience of being stopped by the police for no reason Grieving for the end of our life Acknowledging grief and asking -  is there heartbreak today? On permission to grieve Cry-constipation On being witnessed and grieving in a community of support TV as medicine Seeking support for grief and depression The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effect of unprocessed grief  Michelle shares about the upcoming 2nd edition of her book Skill in Action  And so much more! Bonus Secret Episode! Get the grounding and clearing meditation with Michelle Cassandra Johnson at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Links: Join the Earth Speak Collective Membership at https://www.earthspeak.love/collective Learn more about Michelle's offerings at www.michellecjohnson.com Connect with Michelle on Instagram @skillinaction // https://www.instagram.com/skillinaction/ Connect with Michelle on Facebook @skillinaction Pre-order Michell's new book Finding Refuge Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret     References: 23andme https://www.23andme.com/ Finding Refuge Book https://www.finding-refuge.com/ Shambhala Publications https://www.shambhala.com     Usher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_usher Trayvon Martin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin Sharmonic work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism Skill in Action https://www.skill-in-action.com/the-book Healing in Community Online Summit https://www.skill-in-action.com/the-book Yoga International https://yogainternational.com/ This is Us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Us DSM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5 Finding Refuge Podcast https://www.michellecjohnson.com/finding-refuge-podcast Skill in Action 2nd Edition https://www.shambhala.com/skill-in-action-15838.html Sādhanā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%81dhan%C4%81 Rohini Moradi https://www.magicinclined.com/ Rohini on the Earth Speak Podcast https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/rohini-moradi-sweeney-31 Akashic Records Workshop https://www.earthspeak.love/akashic-records Bhagavad Gita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita Dharma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma Michelle's Intuitive Healing offerings https://www.michellecjohnson.com/intuitive-healing Subscribe to Michelle's newsletter https://www.michellecjohnson.com/subscribe Earth Speak Ep14 https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/michellejohnson14     ► Leave us a written review on iTunes, and get shouted out on the show! 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Michelle Cassandra Johnson shares about knowing your capacity and creating space to grieve in a community of support. You'll also hear about: Michelle shares her experience of being stopped by the police for no reason, other than being Black How we have been conditioned to grieve in isolation On finding liberation and freedom in grief  TV as medicine   ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership! Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgment   When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members-only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle's new book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by Shambhala Publications, comes out on July 13th, 2021. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world.   In this episode, we talk about: Responding to heartbreak Remembering your roots, and bringing forth your medicine Michelle shares some stories of personal grief How Michelle's newest book was guided by Spirit Integrating grief into healing work Why we're resistant to grief On being conditioned to grieve in isolation Finding freedom and liberation through grief On calling in support from our guides and helpers Why our capacity to hold grief is limited How the Spirit can hold grief, even if our body cannot On understanding your capacity for grief Hypervigilance and why BIPOC folks need more space for rest How our capacity shifts, depending on the identities we embody On identifying what is grief and how it shows up Michelle shares her experience of being stopped by the police for no reason Grieving for the end of our life Acknowledging grief and asking -  is there heartbreak today? On permission to grieve Cry-constipation On being witnessed and grieving in a community of support TV as medicine Seeking support for grief and depression The physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effect of unprocessed grief  Michelle shares about the upcoming 2nd edition of her book Skill in Action  And so much more! Bonus Secret Episode! Get the grounding and clearing meditation with Michelle Cassandra Johnson at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. 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This week, Michelle C. Johnson, (https://www.michellecjohnson.com/) joins us for a beautiful and indulgent conversation around connecting to our ancestors. We talk about: dismanteling racism connecting to ancestors healing ancestral trauma connecting to source building altars prayer and chanting beekeeping her incredible new book, Finding Refuge and so much more! Meet Michelle: Michelle C. Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer, and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. As a dismantling racism trainer, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. Michelle’s new book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, published by Shambhala Publications, comes out on July 13th, 2021.  She was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. Recently, she created her own podcast, Finding Refuge, which explores collective grief and liberation and serves as a reminder about all the ways we can find refuge during unsettling and uncertain times and of the resilience and joy that comes from allowing ourselves to find refuge. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing, and wholeness are at the center of how Michelle approaches all of her work in the world. To connect with , please visit: https://www.michellecjohnson.com/ To pre-order Michelle's new book, Finding Refuge, please visit: https://www.finding-refuge.com/ ▶▶▶ Please rate, commnet, and share this episode to share the magic, and join the Magic Inclined community to connect with magic humxns from all aroud the world: https://magicinclined.mn.co All music provided by www.lukesweeney.com Luke's spodify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0HUCUssIZ14hidQEb4IpwZ

We believe that we each have a responsibility to play our part in creating a more racially just world.⁣ ⁣ We need to start with ourselves, we need to do the inner work, we need to learn, we need to listen. ⁣ ⁣ When we start with ourselves it gives us an opportunity to look at our own circle of influence, our own behaviours, and our own belief systems.⁣ ⁣ If we look at our own circle of influence and the impact that we have individually on the world, this extends and applies to our business - this is a place where you can start to create change. ⁣ ⁣ We invite you to be part of this work, to share your knowledge and experiences so that together we can learn and support one another to become more aware of the issues and to commit to showing up for this work - becoming an imperfect ally, diversifying our businesses and adjusting our values to support equity, diversity and inclusion.⁣

Our final episode of the Namaste Bitches Trilogy is our Extended Greenroom Conversation. We had so much in our first Greenroom, we didn't  have time to ask my last two questions! So I invited special guests Michelle Cassandra Johnson, LeoRising and Susanna Barkataki back to deconstruct the entertainment business and Yoga/wellness business connection. Michelle Cassandra Johnson - Author Skill in Action:Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World Susanna Barkataki - Author Honor Yoga's Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice LeoRising  - Yoga Guide leorisingyoga.com Music by DJ Nickodemus www.sonderwheelrecordings.com Coverart: Sabina Espinet Art @usgamesinc --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeanine-t-abraham/message

Say hello to Michelle C. Johnson, our guest for Episode 21! She went DEEP to offer: -- why she doesn't buy into dominant culture's definition of "productivity"; -- how collective grief is connected to freedom and liberation; and -- her practice for staying grounded in a noisy world. Her bio: Michelle Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, she has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. Her awareness of the world through her own experience as a black woman allows her to know, first-hand, how privilege and power operate. Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has worked in several non-profits and served as an elected official and on many non-profit boards of directors. She has worked with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. Michelle published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; she teaches workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. She is on the faculty of Off the Mat Into the World, and she serves as the Co-Director of 18 Springs Healing Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Michelle was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019, and she has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal. Michelle leads courageously from the heart with compassion and a commitment to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes for many because of the harm it creates. She inspires change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, the heart, healing and wholeness are at the center of how she approaches all of her work in the world. Her #TNWIDTakeaway: "I want to just encourage people to be in their wholeness and to really nourish and honor the different parts of themselves that need to flourish and come forth, like in their work and their practice." For more information, including the show notes, click here: https://stephanieghoston.com/tnwid-episode-21 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tnwid/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tnwid/support

The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast BONUS: Anti-Racism & Yoga with Michelle Johnson   Description: In light of everything that has been happening in the US and across the world with the Black Lives Matter social justice movement and calls for anti-racism, how does yoga fit in? What can yoga teachers do to hold space for these conversations that need to happen and how do yoga and anti-racism really work together? This special bonus episode is a Live Q&A session with Michelle Johnson to tackle these questions.   Michelle Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. She has over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker. With her deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart and her awareness of the world through her own experience as a black woman, she helps others understand how privilege and power operate. Her book Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World was published in 2017 and addresses these specific topics.   As yoga teachers (and studios), how can we move into the realm of social justice? What  can we do to create businesses that promote anti-racism, and create inclusive spaces in yoga? Michelle shares her insights about these topics, as well as privilege, dealing with white guilt, and addressing cultural trauma, and so much more.   This rich conversation with Michelle may make you feel uncomfortable, but it is important to sit with our discomfort to learn and grow, and start doing the work in this space.   Special thanks to Offering Tree, for sponsoring this bonus Q&A session.   Key Takeaways: [1:19] This episode was originally done as a Facebook Live video in The Connected Yoga Teacher Group. [00:05:23] Shannon introduces her guest for this episode - Michelle Johnson. [8:48] Michelle has been doing this work for a long time. What has her experience been like in the past few weeks with so much new interest in her work? [11:40] How does anti-racism relate to yoga teachers and yoga studios? [14:08] What are some ways in which we can continue doing this work? [17:42] Yoga teachers may think they are already doing the work, but it is also a matter of seeing what they couldn't see before. Michelle shares an example of how capitalism may be showing up in our yoga businesses as a form of oppression. [21:14] How can we go about creating real inclusion without falling to tokenism? Michelle speaks to the importance of balancing mindfulness and urgency. [26:54] What is Michelle's advice for people who want to do the right thing, but are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing? [30:56] Some yoga teachers are finding it difficult to hold space for others, and are struggling with dealing with their own white guilt. What are Michelle's thoughts on that? [36:55] How does yoga specifically address guilt and shame? [40:26] What can the yoga teacher community offer in terms of speaking to cultural trauma? [43:26] A yoga teacher asks about adding a social justice component to her YTT. Is it appropriate for them to do so, or should they invite someone else to facilitate the conversation? [46:25] Michelle explains the term BIPOC. [51:09] Michelle shares more about how biracial people who has not felt connected to any community can participate in these conversations about race. [54:50] Where can yoga teachers begin? [58:16] What are some beneficiaries you can donate to? [58:58] Get in touch with Michelle and find out more about her trainings via her website. [1:00:44] How do you think we can hold space for these conversations that need to happen, and move more into a space of social justice? Links: Offering Tree Where to Donate, How to Help — George Floyd, by Offering Tree Michelle Johnson book club Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World, by Michelle Johnson Work with Michelle Johnson: Race Equity, Dismantling Racism, & Social Change Consultant Live Interview with Michelle Johnson - What can we as yoga teachers do to help with anti-racism? DismantlingRacism.org Love the Life You Live Podcast    Gratitude to our Sponsor Schedulicity   Quotes from this episode: "We're coming to this space with different emotions, feelings, lived experiences that define how we show up in this particular moment." - Michelle   "Racism is also connected to every other form of oppression, and ... any system of supremacy, they're all interlinked." - Michelle   "I lead with race as a way to deepen our lens and understand how systems of oppression work, with an awareness that really what I'm talking about is how power works, and that is similar with every other form of oppression." - Michelle   "Creating an inclusive space is different than making it look like it's a space that's inclusive." - Michelle   "Black, indigenous and people of color need white people to do their work, and that guilt can get in the way of doing work." - Michelle   "The language shifts, and language when it shifts, is an indication that culture is shifting." - Michelle

It's our first episode! I brought on my dear friend, Ava Moreno and we are chopping it up about VIRTUAL YOGA. Ava is 500 E-RYT, a certified personal trainer, movement specialist, professional dancer and teacher of dance & movement for the past 15 years. In this episode, Ava and I examine yoga at present and how it has been effected by COVID-19. State-wide shutdowns and a tumultuous landscape in the US have put yoga businesses under a microscope. Both myself and Ava have fully transitioned our business online and want to unpack that with you in this pilot episode. Check out Ava on her website and follow her on Instagram @avamoreno ✨ Mentions from this episode: RØDE Go Wireless Mic, Blue Yeti Mic, Tejal and Jesal of Yoga Is Dead Podcast, Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice by Michelle Cassandra Johnson. Thanks for listening! Subscribe for future episodes! XOXO, TL --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hold-the-granola/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hold-the-granola/support

Father’s Day, Summer Solstice, Social Justice and Spirituality all come together on this special Sunday! Join us for a seasonal blessing and powerful talk bringing together these different aspects of our lives into one experience of Truth and Spirit. The words we choose have the power to heal and the power to oppress. Right now there is a global movement for racial justice. As spiritual people, how do we use our language to support healing and do our part to create a world that honours all? Join us this Sunday as we continue our exploration of Michelle Cassandra Johnson’s Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World because social justice and spirituality come together in our mindful language. www.csl-whiterock.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/csl-whiterock/message

What does creating a just world mean to you? How do we use our spiritual principles and practices to address the injustice we see in the world? The urgency of these questions are rising and we are being called to expand our focus from our individual experience to the collective experience. Join us as we delve into Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World by Michelle Cassandra Johnson. “It asks that we take the powerful practice of yoga [or spirituality] and use it to create a world that makes space for all, that values all and that speaks truth to power.” Let us gather and use our mindful intentions to create a whole new world for everyone. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/csl-whiterock/message

My interview this week is with Michelle C. Johnson. Pronouns: she/her "Michelle C. Johnson is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker. Michelle has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. Michelle's awareness of the world through her own experience as a black woman allows her to know, first-hand, how privilege and power operate. Michelle has a Bachelors of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.   She has worked in several non-profits and served as an elected official and on many non-profit boards of directors. Michelle leads Dismantling Racism Trainings with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others.  Michelle self-published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017, and is currently working on her second book for Shambala Publications. www.michellecjohnson.com CLICK HERE to Support JourneyDance with Jeanine the Podcast on Patreon Thank you for listening. Please subscribe and share! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jeanine-t-abraham/message

Michelle C. Johnson is a social justice activist, anti-racism trainer, yoga teacher and author Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, Michelle has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. Michelle leads Dismantling Racism Trainings with large corporations, small non-profits, and community groups. She teach workshops in yoga studios and community spaces nationwide. And she gives talks and interviews to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes and to inspire change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness. In this interview we talk about: - Michelle's yoga journey - How dominant culture harms the collective good, not just the oppressed - What is skill in action - How yoga guides Michelle off the mat - How yoga can guide us in facing social injustices - How racism steals from the wholeness of our experience

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is shaking things up in the yoga world and speaking all the truths about toxic culture and white supremacy so that real healing is possible. She is a social worker, yoga teacher, long time race equity trainer and author of the book Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World. And she is showing us what radical self care really looks like.Buy her book.Follow her.Take a course/training.If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @skillinaction, and click below to tweet:"We are bigger than white supremacy." Michelle C. Johnson with @kkellyyoga on #CTZN Podcast. Check it out: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwellMore about this episode:Michelle discovered that it is impossible to heal when you’re navigating a system that wasn’t designed to heal you. So, she wrote a book called Skill in Action to help us redefine and reclaim what yoga and wellness really looks like in a toxic culture. Yoga and contemplative practice is a pathway to healing, but only when we are willing to do the difficult and uncomfortable work of acknowledging the truth of a culture that is dominated by ideologies of whiteness and individualism. The pain of that culture of separation demands to be felt and that is the only way towards healing.She challenges us to hold the reality that we are both one human interdependent family AND (and this is a big “and”) that we are living very different experiences based on how institutions and culture are set up for our particular identity and social location. There is shared experience in how we get free AND there are unique roles and responsibilities that we each play given our location and that is a part of the “skill in action” that we need to cultivate.The truth is, we are not really doing yoga, we are not really being mindful and we are not really well unless we center a level of consciousness that acknowledges the truth of who we are and how we got here. Otherwise, we are just replicating the toxic systems that we are trying to transform.But Michelle reminds us that we are bigger than white supremacy and we can be better, We can construct something better. And we have to...for the sake of all us.Join CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org.

In this episode I talk with Michelle C. Johnson, author of "Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World." Our conversation is centered on the yamas and niyamas, otherwise known as the ethical precepts of a yoga practice. We delve into the meanings we make of them, our own understanding and (re)interpretations, and how we understand the intersections of spirituality, yoga and social justice. For more information on Michelle, visit: www.michellecjohnson.com You can find information on her upcoming workshops at the website above, and also here: solaschool.com/skillinactionreading Michelle Cassandra Johnson is a social justice warrior, empath, yoga teacher and author. She leads antiracism trainings across the country and works on the front lines of movements with individuals and groups to incorporate healing practices as tools for social justice. Along with these paths, she is also an intuitive healer, and uses her gifts to support other healers and activists. Michelle’s awareness of the world has been largely shaped through her experience as a black woman. She knows first hand how power and privilege operate, and she has a deep understanding of how oppression and trauma impact the mind, body, spirit and heart. Michelle’s book, Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World, is rooted in this understanding and aims to inspire change by allowing people to reintegrate their humanity and wholeness within a world that is so often fragmenting. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/embodied-astrology/message

Michelle Cassandra Johnson, the recent author of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World. Michelle is a yoga teacher, social justice activist, a licensed clinical social worker and Dismantling Racism trainer. She approaches her life and work from a place of empowerment, embodiment, and integration. With a deep understanding of trauma and the impact that it has on the mind, body, spirit, and heart, much of her work focuses on helping people better understand how power and privilege operate in their life. She explores how privilege, power, and oppression affects the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and energy body. She recently published her first book Skill in Action and is currently on a national book tour.   Find Michelle Website: www.michellecjohnson.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2724808 https://www.facebook.com/skillandaction/ Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mysticcassandra http://www.instagram.com/skillinaction Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Skillactionyoga http://www.twitter.com/MichelleCboro   Learn More About One-on-One Coaching:  http://dirtinyourskirt.com/coaching/   Get Your Own Dirt in Your Skirt Mug: http://shop.dirtinyourskirt.com   Show Supported by:  Four Sigmatic - http://www.foursigmatic.com Use code: DIYS to save 10% on your order   Groove Life – www.groovelife.com Use Code: DIYS10 to save 10% on your order   Find all the Dirt in Your Skirt Partners Here.     Full Shownotes:  http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com Join the Facebook Group:  http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com/tribe Support the Show: http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com/support   

The truth is racism still exists. It exists in our subconscious - as a memory in our bodies from our ancestry. It exists from past traumas of our ancestors still yearning to be healed. It exists in our conditioning, our society and how many of us were raised... Many people have been in denial of its existence, but with Trump taking office, what has seemed to be under the surface for many has only become more and more real. People of color have seen and experienced it all along, and thankfully, more and more of us have been waking up to this truth. Not long after I set the intention to further educate myself about white privilege and racism, I received an email out of the blue from a friend I haven't talked to in years ...connecting me to Michelle and her work. So what can we do? I sat down to talk with Michelle Johnson to learn more about privilege, oppression and racism and her unique approach of integrating the teachings of yoga with social justice. I am so grateful to share her wisdom with you all today.   “Racism is not just impacting people of color. The system of oppression is not just harming people of color, it's harming all of us because we are connected. We’re just not conditioned to see that connection.” In this episode we discussed: Michelle's story: What it was like growing up and feeling different and not fitting in Michelle's definitions of privilege and oppression How Michelle integrates healing and embodiment into anti-racism trainings How to approach the discomfort, fear and emotional charge of race conversations About Michelle's new book, Skill in Action Actual steps we can take to create change in our world and way of being The role of speaking up on behalf of everyone even when we ourselves are not the oppressed Michelle's vision of hope and how she stays motivated in a world where there is still so much suffering and injustice “One must be connected with their breath to feel their body. A connection to the body allows one to feel their heart. A connection with the heart allows one to become clear about their values so that they may connect with their humanity. When one sees their own humanity and realizes that others are suffering around them they have the opportunity to connect with the oneness of all beings and our shared humanity. From the breath, body, heart and awareness of humanity, one must take action. No one can exist without taking action. Skill in Action.” ~ from Michelle's Book, Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World Stay in touch with Michelle: Michelle's Website Michelle's Book on Amazon From Michelle: I have a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit and heart. My awareness of the world through my experience as a black woman allows me to know, first hand how privilege and power operate. I understand the toll that oppression can take on individuals and the collective physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I am a social justice warrior, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner and an intuitive healer. Whether in an anti-oppression training, yoga space, individual or group intuitive healing session, healing and wholeness are at the center of how I approach all of my work in the world. I've spent many years on the front lines of justice movements craving a space for healing through ritual, ceremony and sacred practice. While working in many non-profits with missions focused on justice I didn't find a space that centered healing as a tool to create justice. So, I created my own space and way of working. I create healing spaces in many different ways working with individuals and groups. I lead anti-racism trainings, yoga workshops focused on the intersection of justice and yoga and I offer intuitive healing sessions to support social justice workers, healers and activists who are on the front lines and struggling with how to sustain themselves as they do their good work in the world. I have a background as a licensed clinical social worker and I have been teaching yoga for ten years. I began my own teacher training in 2014 and recently wrote a book about yoga and justice, Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World. I inspire change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. There are myriad of ways to work with me. I hope to support you on your healing journey and path towards wholeness in whatever capacity allows you to live your fullest life.   Podcast by Meredith Rom - Rising Women Leaders | Spirituality | Personal Growth | Yoga | Entrepreneurship -  Personal growth, intuition, stories, voice, women, yoga, feminine leadership, spirituality, online business, and meditation