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Building Resilience To Find Peace From Anxiety With Hala Khouri We live in a time when our lives can be overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. Being in this constant state can perpetuate a feeling of helplessness. But at one point, we have to face all these negative feelings inside us to free ourselves from them by building resilience . Acknowledging that both positive and negative things can co-exist is the only way we can feel more at peace. In this episode, Hala Khouri joins us to share the essential tools in her book, Peace from Anxiety. She talks about developing the concept of “tend and befriend” as a stress response and interoception as a self-regulation technique. Hala also discusses why she chose the theme of building resilience. Tune in to the episode to learn how you can find peace from anxiety and transform your life. Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Learn about the three different aspects that might be keeping you from finding peace. Find out helpful tips on what to do when you're unable to regulate your nervous system during high-stress states. Discover the concepts of self-regulation, interoception, and building resilience in transforming yourself. Resources Connect with Hala: Website | Facebook | Instagram Off the Mat, Into the World Peace from Anxiety by Hala Khouri Shambhala Publications Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies on the Radically Loved website! FREE Action Guide! Apply the lessons you learn from this episode as you listen! Sign up at com, and I'll send it right away! Episode Highlights Writing Peace from Anxiety Hala always knew the book was inside her. Many of her students and clients were requesting for the information to be more widely available. The book-writing process was a seamless experience for Hala. She was ready and merely wrote every smart thing she has said. The book is divided into three different parts. What will impact readers most depends on what's missing in their lives. The First Part: Physiological Aspects This part is about grounding techniques, self-regulation, and understanding our nervous system. It's often the easiest for people to grasp and has the most immediate impact. These tools are the things people remember, implement, and do all the time. The Second Part: Relationships We can't be well alone. While we can have all the tools for our bodies to run smoothly, we still need to build relationships. This part is not something you can do right away. It involves working on prioritizing relationships, asking for help, and letting yourself need other people. The Third Part: The Global Heart It's about feeling like we're contributing towards a better world. For some people, the missing piece is the sense of making meaning and taking accountability. We all need to have a larger feeling of purpose and meaning. Relationship Divisions on Social Media Our thinking is very binary when we're in a high-stress state. Separation can be a stress reaction. The disembodied relationships and biased algorithms of social media make it worse. Social media is the perfect storm to our massive division and intolerance for difference. Before judging other people in a black-and-white manner, remember that we all have different levels of access to information and education. On Unhappiness, Forgiveness, and Giving Care Unhappy people tend to focus on their unhappiness because of the hypervigilance of figuring out how to be happy. Hala has worked with people with anxiety and depression. The “cure” they found was extending their care beyond themselves. We need to transform our stress response from “fight or flight” to “tend and befriend.” Tend and befriend is about seeing that our well-being is bound and extending ourselves to care for others when we're stressed. With the coronavirus, nobody can be well until everybody is well. Getting vaccinated is more of thinking about the sake of other people than yourself. What to Do When You're Unable to Regulate Your Nervous System Sometimes, we need somebody or something else to hold us. It can be another person or a spiritual belief that is bigger than us. Connecting to the suffering of others intentionally makes us feel less alone in our suffering. If you have COVID-19, think about all the other millions of people who also have COVID-19 at the exact moment. Allow your heart to open and feel that you're not alone in your suffering. Tune in to the full episode to hear about Rosie's experience on contracting COVID-19! Launching a Book Hala still feels surreal that her book is out. She hopes the book becomes a tool to support and impact people, especially at this high-anxiety time. One of her critiques about self-help books is their overly individualistic paradigm. Her book encourages people to need each other and allows them not to do everything right by themselves. Parenting at the Time of COVID-19 Her children understand how lucky they are to not be affected as badly as others. The issues her children experience are around missing milestones that allow them to feel themselves growing. Sometimes parents want to make their children's bad feelings go away. Doing that is a disservice to your child. Instead, Hala teaches her children how to face difficult feelings while also acknowledging what is positive. Self-Regulating When You're Hyperfocused on Negative Feelings We tend to hyperfocus on negative feelings when we're anxious, depressed, or scared. Numbing or denying the negative feelings don't work. Allow yourself to notice what else is in your body that feels good. Build the capacity in your brain to hold something that feels pleasant along with what's uncomfortable. The goal is not to get overwhelmed by anxiety or depression. Then, they can become just a part of who we are while we're still able to focus on the good. Interoception and Trauma Interoception is our capacity to sense what's happening inside us. Since we live in a disembodied culture, most of us have to learn it. This process is even harder for people who have had a lot of trauma in their formative years. You have to understand that you can't just stop being anxious instantly. But you can work on being more grounded. It would be helpful to have support, such as being in a yoga class or working with a therapist. You have to go slow. Otherwise, you will keep yourself in a high anxiety cycle. Slowing Down We get used to moving at a particular pace that's comfortably uncomfortable. Slowing down is scary, but it is okay. Hala decided not to go for her doctorate. It was a tough decision, but she realized she doesn't have to do that right now. We don't always have to strive to be amazing; mediocrity can be satisfying as well. Building Resilience in the Book Hala focused on building resilience because it doesn't pathologize. Her favorite definition of resilience is allowing difficulties to transform us. It's having this feeling that we can handle life. Resilience is a word that is more nuanced than some other positive words. It's about our capacity to imagine things being better than they were. We're all living in an imagined future. Trauma is a loss of imagination; reclaiming that capacity gives us hope. How Hala Feels Radically Loved Hala feels radically loved in every moment by being surrounded by blessings, opportunities, and supportive relationships. 5 Powerful Quotes [11:11] “The thing that ‘cured' [people with anxiety and depression] was actually extending their care beyond themselves, making it about something bigger than themselves.”   [11:23] “I think what our planet needs is for us to transform our stress response from a fight or flight to a tend and befriend.”   [11:51] “Until everybody is well, nobody can be well.”   [23:33] “Maybe the goal is to not be overwhelmed by our anxiety or to feel like we're bigger than our depression so that those things become just a part of who we are.”   [33:31] “Trauma is a loss of imagination. And when we reclaim our capacity to imagine, then that gives us hope.”   About Hala Hala Khouri is the co-founder of Off the Mat Into the World, an organization dedicated to bridging yoga and activism. She is a yoga and movement teacher with over 25 years of experience and training in Somatic Experiencing. Hala is also a well-recognized speaker and trainer on yoga, social justice, and trauma. She has been doing clinical work and training for more than 15 years. The focus of her work is leading trauma-informed yoga training for individuals and groups. She trains educators and service providers on how to be trauma-informed and culturally responsive. If you want to connect with Hala, you may visit her website, Facebook, and Instagram. Enjoy the Podcast? If you felt radically loved from listening to this podcast, subscribe and share it with the people you love! Love to give us 5 stars? If you do, we'd love a review from you. Help us reach more people and make them feel loved. Do you want to help people in building resilience? Do you want to know how to find peace from anxiety? A simple way is to share what you've learned today on social media. 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Today's episode is an excerpt from our Commune course, Redefining Leadership with Seane Corn and Off the Mat Into the World. How can the principles of yoga teach you to be a better leader? What is your relationship to power? What can you do to change yourself so that positive change reflects into the world? The path the conscious leadership follows alongside these questions. You can watch this full course, along with many others, by joining Commune Membership — visit onecommune.com/join to try Commune Membership free for 14 days. Connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

Today's episode is an excerpt from our Commune course, Redefining Leadership with Seane Corn and Off the Mat Into the World. How can the principles of yoga teach you to be a better leader? What is your relationship to power? What can you do to change yourself so that positive change reflects into the world? The path the conscious leadership follows alongside these questions. You can watch this full course, along with many others, by joining Commune Membership — visit onecommune.com/join to try Commune Membership free for 14 days. Connect with us on Instagram at @onecommune and @jeffkrasno.

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

“Caring for myself is not self indulgence.  It is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare” -- Audre Lorde These words open Leslie Booker‘s website. Known as “Booker”, she brings her heart, wisdom and compassion to the intersection of social justice, yoga and mindfulness.  She is passionate about expanding our vision around culturally responsive yoga and mindfulness teaching, and about changing the paradigm of self and community care. An activist who spent more than a decade on the front lines of the criminal justice system, Booker is a mindfulness/movement teacher, trainer, mentor, writer, and changemaker consultant. She inspires others on their journey to find a sense of freedom and liberation within a world that is burdened by greed, hatred and delusion. Booker teaches yoga and mindfulness. She began sharing her practice with teens incarcerated or involved in the court system and other vulnerable populations in 2005, after nearly a decade in the fashion industry.  She served as a senior teacher and Director of Teacher Trainings with Lineage Project from 2006-2016, where she worked with incarcerated and vulnerable youth.  During this time, she also facilitated a mindfulness and cognitive-based therapy intervention on Riker’s Island from 2009-2011, a partnership between New York University and the National Institute of Health. “I was really overwhelmed at the beginning, by the environment, by seeing so many of my little brothers and sisters locked up,” Booker admitted about first teaching 12-15 year old incarcerated youth. “It’s heartbreaking to see another generation of People of Color starting their lives behind bars and feeling stuck there, like it’s where they’re supposed to be. But I knew that it was something I needed to do. As Van Jones says, ‘We need to call them up, not call them out.’ I needed to go back and try again.” Booker found that to teach in that environment, she had to go deeper into her meditation practice.  “You’re seeing a lot of suffering through generations of historical trauma and the challenge is to not get caught up in that narrative, in the weight of it, but to face it head on, to empower them to move through it, not around it.” Soon after she began her practice, Booker went on a retreat to Uganda with the Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita, a Ugandan Theravada Buddhist monk, and as she was leaving he said, “Your practice has to be your work, and your work has to be your practice, and there can be no separation.” At first Booker says she didn’t know how to integrate those, because she was an activist on the front lines, working in jails.  Now, in her teaching, Booker draws on another expression of Audre Lorde, that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” Realizing that “these tools that we’ve been shown of fear and hatred and greed and delusion are not working," Booker says "I know I have to turn towards compassion, towards love. I have to turn towards hearing your story and seeing how we are more alike than separate. Because me living divisively from you isn’t healing this world that we’re living in.”  Throughout her career, Booker has contributed to the advancement of her field both in theory and practice. She is a a co-author of Best Practices for Yoga in a Criminal Justice Setting, a contributor to Georgetown Law’s Center on Poverty and Inequality’s report: Gender & Trauma—Somatic Interventions for Girls in Juvenile Justice, YOGA: The Secret of Life, and contributed to Sharon Salzberg’s book Happiness at Work. Booker is on faculty with the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, Off the Mat Into the World, Bending Towards Justice, the Yoga and Dharma Training at Spirit Rock, and sits on the Advisory Boards of The Art of Yoga Project and Lineage Project.  She is co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising from Virginia Commonwealth University, and went on to train at Spirit Rock in their Mindful Yoga and Meditation training (2012), Community Dharma Leaders’ Training (2017), and will complete the Spirit Rock 4-year Residential Retreat Teacher Training in 2020. “All of my years of being out there on the front lines, working in jails,” Booker says, “at the end of the day it all comes down to love.  Not in that weak sentimental way, but in that way that is strong and powerful.” Join us in conversation with this compassionate teacher who deepened in the power of love after teaching on the front lines of a broken criminal justice system!  The remarkable sujatha baliga will be moderating the conversation.

“I can’t know the light unless I know the shadow. And, I certainly can’t know patience and compassion without also understanding resistance or even judgment. And the more that I can normalize the human experience. That’s when I can develop empathy and empathy is what will change this world.” - Seane Corn Seane Corn is an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and public speaker known for her social activism, impassioned style of teaching, and raw, honest, and inspired self-expression. Her first book Revolution of the Soul was published in Fall 2019. In this episode, Seane and I have a raw conversation about: Vulnerability in the creative process and its role in great change The discovery of ritual & prayer as a conduit for transformation The accountability that comes with privilege Spirituality as an art Soul contracts and becoming a grandparent. At the end of the episode, Seane leads us through a powerful prayer. We’ve come a long way from when I hired her at YogaWorks 26 years ago! More about Seane: Over her 25-year teaching career, Seane has created many instructional DVDs, including her groundbreaking series The Yoga of Awakening with Sounds True. Featured on over 40 magazine covers and countless media outlets, Seane has chosen to use her platform to bring awareness to global issues including social justice, sex trafficking, HIV/AIDS awareness, generational poverty, and animal rights. In 2005, she was named “National Yoga Ambassador” for YouthAIDS, and in 2013 received both the Global Green International Environmental Leadership Award and the Humanitarian Award by the Smithsonian Institute. Since 2007, she has been training leaders of activism through her co-founded organization Off the Mat, Into the World®. Seane also co-founded the Global Seva Challenge, which has raised over $3.5 million by activating communities of yoga and wellness in fund and awareness-raising efforts. Episode Resources: Off the Mat Into the World Download a free yoga practice with Seane. Purchase Seane Corn’s book, Revolution of the Soul. Join Seane’s Instagram Live class: Sundays at 9:00 AM @seanecorn Episode Credits: Produced by Aleksa Mara Edited by Veronica Gruba Hosted & Created by Britta Bushnell, PHD

Seane's organization, Off the Mat Into the World, is the reason One Love Movement exists today. I found my life's purpose through working with Off the Mat back in 2011. Because of this it is with my most grateful heart ever that I present to you Seane Corn.Follow Seane on Instagram @seanecornWelcome to One Love Movement’s podcast & live show about people who amplify one love out in the world.We are here to continue the cycle of compassionate action, we broadcast unique and inspiring voices of the movement. Host: Kim BaumanFollow her on Instagram @thekimbaumanKim is the founder of the One Love Movementwww.onelovemovement.orgFollow us on Instagram @onelovepodcasthello@onelovemovement.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Maura Manzo began to practice yoga to “learn to breathe” after a fire destroyed her home in 2006 and has been on a journey to share yoga with others ever since. Following her yoga teacher training, Maura raised $20,000 for HIV/AIDS programs in South Africa in collaboration with Off the Mat into the World. She considers that project a defining moment in her life and in taking her practice to the next level, both as a student and as a teacher. Maura has extensively studied trauma informed practices and the intersection of social justice and yoga and she is dedicated to making the practice of yoga more inclusive and accessible for all people. Maura’s deep commitment to building community shows up in all that she offers. Maura has been invited to teach at Wanderlust Philly, has been named one of Be Well Philly’s Top 5 Yogi’s to Watch, and was featured in Origin Magazine. She teachers classes, workshops, and trainings at her studio, Yoga Home, which also offers online classes through Namastream. Joy: Basketball Games / Travel / Netflix Binges Hustle: Soulful MBA Podcast (blush) / loom / Off the Mat Into the World  / CTZN Well / Paper Planner

Greetings Rainbow Warriors! I’m still in the middle of a forest in France, and ready for you to join me here in this Widerness Wellness Experience through June 23rd, anytime it’s convenient for you for as few or as many days as you wish. We’re in a  300 year old eco lodge and spa in the forest, surrounded by pristine nature, and I’m teaching yoga here twice a day. Check the show notes or my Visionary Lifestyle and Podcast Page for details on that. Our guest today is one of my sheros, the one and only, Seane Corn. Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher known for her impassioned activism, unique self-expression, and inspirational style of teaching. As a leading voice of Yoga and social change, Seane has been featured in countless media platforms across the globe. She has been seen on the cover of over 30 magazines and utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to global humanitarian issues. In 2005, she was named “National Yoga Ambassador” for YouthAIDS, and in 2013 was given the “Global Green International Environmental Leadership Award.” Since 2007, she has been training leaders of activism through her co-founded organization Off the Mat, Into the World®. Seane has spent time in the US, India, Cambodia, Haiti and Africa working with communities in need- teaching yoga, providing support for child labor and educating people about HIV/AIDS prevention. Seane is also co-founder of the Seva Challenge Humanitarian Tours, which have raised roughly $4 million since 2007, getting the yoga community involved in fund and awareness raising efforts across the globe. Her self-authored dvds are available through Gaiam and Yoga Journal, as well as her most recent groundbreaking 3-dvd set “The Yoga of Awakening” through Sounds True.  She is currently working on her first book. I’m so excited to bring you this interview with one of my biggest sheroes! I met Seane back in 2011 when I invited her to join me teaching yoga in Los Angeles on 11/11/11 during the Occupy protest on the lawn at City Hall. She showed up in spades on that day, bringing her whole tribe from Off the Mat Into the World as well as organizing all the top yoga teachers in LA to join us. It was a phenomenal day that I’ll never forget. Make sure to check out the show notes for pics of that. I’ve interviewed Seane several times for different publications over the years because she stands, so firmly, for all the things I deeply care about.  She is karma yoga in action. She is a huge role model for me and so many others.   We recorded this interview last year in New York City at the United Nations on International Yoga Day where Seane was teaching a class to celebrate the occasion, with all my Rishikesh yoga tribe on site too. It was a truly spectacular day to be a yogi! And guys, we’re almost at that time again. This Summer Solstice, June 21st, will be the 4th International Day of Yoga! I’ll be teaching in France and would love love love for you to join me here to celebrate that and join a worldwide group of people who recognize the tremendous benefits of yoga.   Seane and I deep dive here into what it means to be a yogi. I looooove this conversation and I just know you will find lots of inspiration in it too. Remember to check the show notes at visionary-lifestyle.com/podcast for links to Seane and things we talk about during the interview. Enjoy and namaste https://www.seanecorn.com/ https://www.facebook.com/SeaneCorn/ Occupy Your Mat Pics https://www.facebook.com/pg/Visionary-Activist-Network-172658139428070/photos/?tab=album&album_id=309114459115770 Skyland Animal Sanctuary https://skylandssanctuary.org/ https://twitter.com/seanecornyoga?lang=en Wilderness Wellness Experience in France with Magda https://www.facebook.com/visionarylifestyle/photos/a.740995669300404.1073741830.479405518792755/1678368285563133/?type=3&theater

She's blunt, brilliant, hilarious, and an abundance of wisdom. Seane Corn is a world renowned master yoga teacher, but to just call her a yoga teacher feels absurd. She is a provocative and moving public speaker. She's the founder of the nonprofit, Off the Mat Into the World, which has trained over 5,000 people in how to bridge personal transformation and social change. And she's about to be an author for her first book, which knowing her, will be a juicy “tell all” about her journey from spiritual practice to social action. But, what you will experience of Seane on this podcast, and what I know of her in person, is that she is relentless in her pursuit of truth and transformation.Follow Seane on InstagramBuy Seane’s Book Revolution of the SoulCheck out Seane’s website for upcoming eventsIf this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @seanecorn and click below to tweet:We can’t stand on the sidelines. We cannot sit back and have magical thinking that suddenly this is all going to transform without actually getting involved. @ctznwell @kkellyyoga @jerseycorn #CTZN ctznwell.org/ctznpodcastJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org.

We’re talking with Jacoby Ballard about all things allyship, accompliceship, and solidarity. You’ll hear some captivating stories about navigating layers of identity, privilege, and oppression... a word about pronouns… how practice can help us ground the charge we feel when triggered... and whether we should we even be using the word ally, accomplice, or whose role it is to name those things anyway. You can download the corresponding practice (24 Practice: Forgiveness Meditation) to join Jacoby in a guided meditation for forgiving ourselves and others. --- We need your help to fund this volunteer project! Please help cover our costs by becoming a monthly sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice or giving a one time gift at our brand new donation link here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb --- REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE: Third Root Community Health Center www.thirdroot.org The Icarus Project (and their Mad Maps model) https://theicarusproject.net/ Off the Mat Into the World http://www.offthematintotheworld.org/ Hala Khouri http://halakhouri.com/ Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) http://www.blackyogateachersalliance.org/   ABOUT OUR GUEST Jacoby Ballard is a white trans queer person living in Amherst, MA until moving to Salt Lake City, UT this summer. He is a co-founder of worker owned cooperative Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn, and co-founder of Bending Towards Justice ( bendingtowardsjustice.org ), an organization that leads anti-oppression workshops and consultations for yoga communities, and leading teacher at Adhikara Yoga School ( Adhikarayogaschool.com ) in Western Massachusetts. Jacoby speaks on college and high school campuses, leading collective care, transformative leadership, and resilience workshops for campus activists, leaders, and queer communities and consults with organizations looking to either build more justice or more spiritual practice into their organization. Find his writing and workshops at www.jacobyballard.com-- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at www.healingjustice.org    Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter   This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice or giving a one time gift here https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb Please leave a positive rating & review in whatever app you are listening!   THANK YOU: This episode was edited by Jacob White Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Erica is super bright, knowledgeable, and passionate about social justice, yogic activism building a business for good. She has the unique combination of being both ambitious and soulful, New Yorker meets woo woo.  This episode will light you up about how YOU can make changes, face challenges, and be more intentional about how you live your life.   We cover SO many relevant and powerful topics in today’s show.  From taking risks (even if you’re risk averse), racism, microaggression, gentrification, building community, and switching paths from the corporate world to yoga studio owner. I first met Erica as a college freshman — both of us pretty clueless about what to wear, what to study, and what to do with our lives.  Her friendship saved me (many times over in the last two decades). We’ve “grown up” together, though we’ll always be searching and striving to be better and do more.  Enjoy this convo and let me know what you thought over in our FB community. About Our Guest: Erica Barth is a Facilitator of Connection, Collaboration, and Change. She is the owner of Harlem Yoga Studio, an award-winning studio in New York City that is known for its strong Cultivation of Community, Diverse and welcoming atmosphere, and commitment to Social Justice Issues. In her work with clients both on and off the mat, she cultivates a body and mind connection, and works to help students discover the inherent wisdom of their inner experience in order to feel calm, strong and centered. Having viewed the world with a systemic lens for many years following her studies and consulting work in Organizational Change, Erica sees the internal connection between body and mind as a mirror and magnifier of our connection to one another. She incorporates her understanding of yoga and her background in group dynamics and social organizational theory to help groups and teams work together and engage more effectively. What we cover in this conversation: Embodied awareness (huh?) vs. athleticism Her vision that yoga is for everybody Racial dynamics, microaggressions, and her path to personal awareness Microaggression Building a business aligned with your values, and sticking to it Being risk averse and taking “safe” risks Changing paths from corporate america to conscious entrepreneur Social justice and activism in the yoga world How you can help, even when it feels overwhelming Resources mentioned in this episode: Off the Mat Into the World Fight for $15 and CTZN Well People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond Micro-aggressions  – Columbia Professor and How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful The film, Moonlight More from ME: Come hang out in my FREE Facebook Community for deeper conversations and connections with other awesome women Ready for better relationships? Get started now with FREE book chapters of Naked Communication HERE. The ASK Formula Cheat Sheet:  How to ask for what you want… and get it.  http://www.sagebhobbs.com/ask-formula-cheat-sheet/ And a favor from YOU: Like what you hear? If SO, be sure to subscribe to Naked Conversations on iTunes. Or Stitcher. Or Google Play. For (SUPER DUPER appreciated) gold stars: Leave me a rating + review!  Just a few short words will help MORE amazing women find the show.  Thank you

Keli is an ex-punkrocker, mother of three amazing kids. She joined the Hare Krishna’s when she was 19, but she remembers loving Krishna way before then. She and her husband Saci own Equal Vision Records. Keli also teaches yoga, chant kirtan and loves dark chocolate with peanut butter. • Hare Krishna – Keli discusses her childhood in upstate New York and how at 7 years old, while visiting a nearby ashram, she saw a picture of the universal form of Krishna, which led to an immediate heart and soul experience for her. She also discusses the influence that the Mahabharata Comic Books and movie Gandhi had on her at an early age. • Rebellious Spirit –Keli and I take a stroll down punk/hardcore memory lane as we discuss our introductions to it during our teenage years. From Keli seeing Black Flag in 1986 to our parents supporting our involvement in the punk/hardcore scene and much more, we cover a lot of old school ground. • Krishna-Core – Keli discusses playing guitar with the legendary hardcore band 108 while living at a Vivekananda ashram. She also recounts other Krishna bands and members such as Shelter, Prema, Ray Cappo (Ragunath), John Porcelly and more. She also shares about the time she tried to describe 108 to Krishna Das and his response. 13:38 • Equal Vision – Keli shares talks about her and her husband Saci’s record label Equal Vision, which has been a staple in the punk/hardcore music movement since the 90’s and how it continues to be today. • Mantrology – From Equal Vision to Mantrology, Keli talks about her and Saci’s bhakti record label which has became a seva for them as all of their profits go to supporting foundations such as Food for Life Vrindavan, a school for very poor children in Northern India: Share Your Care, a mobile eye clinic for rural villagers in India, which is under the direction of Radhanath Swami, Off the Mat Into the World, through the students of Seane Corne. Mantralogy also partners with The Call and Response Foundation, an organization that brings Sacred Music to at risk youth, and into prisons.

Headline yoga instructor and activist Seane Corn joins us for Reflections 2011. Whether it is teaching a yoga class of 600+ on how to connect with their body/mind, leading a march for Occupy Wall Street or impacting lives throughout the world via the organization Off the Mat Into the World Seane shares a vision of a better life. Seane truly walks the talk and encourages us all to engage in personal physical, mental and emotional transformation developing respect and love for self and others. Discover what has touched her life and what projects she's got on the go for 2012. Enjoy thirty minutes with the indominable Seane Corn as she reflects on the past year. Support the show (https://yogainmyschool.com/?p=13405)

Headline yoga instructor and activist Seane Corn joins us for Reflections 2011. Whether it is teaching a yoga class of 600+ on how to connect with their body/mind, leading a march for Occupy Wall Street or impacting lives throughout the world via the organization Off the Mat Into the World Seane shares a vision of a better life. Seane truly walks the talk and encourages us all to engage in personal physical, mental and emotional transformation developing respect and love for self and others. Discover what has touched her life and what projects she's got on the go for 2012. Enjoy thirty minutes with the indominable Seane Corn as she reflects on the past year. Support the show (https://yogainmyschool.com/?p=13405)

Marianne Manilov is the National Team Leader of The Engage Network, a nonprofit social venture that promotes widespread civic engagement.  At the moment, The Engage Network includes three "sectors": What's Your Tree?, inspired by Julia Butterfly Hill's tree-sit, Off the Mat Into the World, founded by yoga teacher Seane Corn, and Green for All founded by Van Jones.  You can find out more about the Engage Network at www.engagenet.org.A transcript of this interview is available on my blog, Have Fun * Do Good.Photo: The Engage Network Founders: Marianne Manilov, Ina Pockrass and Alissa Hauser.