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CTZN is having conversations at the intersection of wellbeing and justice. We’re not afraid to ask hard questions and have a radical dialogue about politics and patriarchy, white supremacy and worthiness. And we’re serious about showing up for one another and taking action for the wellbeing of everyone.
S4 E47 · Thu, February 17, 2022
The Power of Pause: Octavia Raheem
The new year is a great time to reflect on where we are coming from and where we are going. But instead of hustling into the new year, setting toxic resolutions and unrealistic goals, Octavia Raheem is encouraging us to rest. This podcast conversation features author, mentor and yoga teacher, Octavia Raheem. In her new book, Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change , Octavia offers us a powerful guide to navigating the many changes we are facing with wisdom and ease. Instead of trying to push our way through endings, beginnings, and places of uncertainty, only to find ourselves more confused, more disconnected, more exhausted than ever, Octavia encourages us to lean back and trust in the transformative power of rest. “Now” she says” is no ordinary moment in time. Now is a place of startling individual collective endings. Now is the space before something else becomes. Now is both a promise and fulfillment of fresh beginnings”. This conversation is a gift to all of us who are navigating the mess of this moment and yearning for so much more. Check it out Connect with Octavia Raheem: Buy Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change Check out Octavia’s rest offerings Follow Octavia on instagram If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @octaviaraheem Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD + Transcription <a hre
S4 E46 · Mon, December 20, 2021
Trust Your Truth: Shannon Algeo
This podcast features Shannon Algeo, author, meditation teacher, therapist and my neighbor :-) In our conversation, we get personal and reflect on our experience of living together and surviving the many pandemics of the last few years and what it looks like to really look out and care for each other through uncertain times. We talked about how having hard conversations and giving critical feedback is actually a radical form of care. It affirms that we matter to each other. And it’s how we build trust and community together. This conversation is intimate and important in how it invites us to really live into the spirit of community care that we are so desperately trying to co-create. Connect with Shannon Algeo Buy Trust Your Truth: Heal Self-Doubt, Awaken to Your Soul's Purpose, and Live Your Badass Life Check out Shannon’s work Follow Shannon on Instagram at @shannon.algeo If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @shannon.algeo Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD + Transcription (click here to access)
S4 E45 · Wed, November 24, 2021
A Queer Dharma: Jacoby Ballard
Jacoby Ballard (he/they) is a social justice educator, yoga teacher and author of the new book A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation. Jacoby defines Queer dharma as “a practice that interrogates systems of power and seeks liberation for all”. In our conversation, we talk about the intersections of yoga and capitalism and white supremacy and cultural appropriation while also returning to the wisdom of yoga - that the yoga practice as it was intended provides a visionary pathway forward to a liberated life. Jacoby invites us to be in a critical and courageous inquiry around how we resist the straight dharma that we have been fed by dominant culture and embrace the truth of our interdependence and collective wellbeing. This conversation is juicy and essential. Check it out. Connect with Jacoby Ballard Buy A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation Visit Jacoby’s website Follow Jacoby on Instagram at @jacobyballard If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @jacobyballard Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD
S4 E44 · Tue, November 02, 2021
What is Your Medicine: Vivette Jeffries-Logan
Vivette Jeffries Logan is a lot of things AND she is a force of nature. She’s a powerful and seasoned facilitator of race equity work. And she’s a mother, a chef, a mentor and a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. This podcast with her is a whole journey of joy and laughter AND asking really hard questions about who we are and how we heal? Together we explore what it means to be curious and critical of how we’ve been shaped by a toxic dominant culture AND how we hold space for our humanness. She invites us to hold the complexity of both/and and embrace our whole, messy and surly (as she calls it) experience of being alive in these times and doing our part to heal ourselves, one another and the land that we come from. Vivette inspires us to ask hard questions about who we are and where we come from so that we can take our place in the world and get in ‘right relationship’ with what is needed for collective healing. Check it out. Connect with Vivette Jeffries-Logan Visit Vivette’s website Follow Vivette on Instagram at @tobaccobird65 If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @tobaccobird65 Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD + Transcription (read transcription here)
S4 E43 · Tue, September 14, 2021
Radical Friendship: Kate Johnson
Kate Johnson is a buddhist meditation teacher and author of the book Radical Friendship which makes a case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage and trust, and a path that paves the way for profound social change Relationship as spiritual practice is often a mirror for what we cannot see or know in isolation. Through each other, deeper truths are revealed that make growth possible. On this podcast, you’ll hear Kate and I talk about navigating our own messy experience of conflict and repair and what it is to find each other again after all these years and practice relationship in a different way. This conversation was deep and vulnerable and shows us what is possible when we lean into change one relationship at a time. Check it out. Connect with Kate Johnson Visit Kate’s website Follow Kate on Instagram at @hellokatejohnson Buy Kate’s book, Radical Friendship, Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @hellokatejohnson Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD + Transcription <a
S4 E42 · Tue, August 24, 2021
Peace from Anxiety: Hala Khouri
This week’s courageous conversation is with Hala Khouri, a brilliant yoga teacher and somatic counselor specializing in trauma. In the podcast, Hala asks “how good are we at repair? Because unless we get good at that, we can't be in this messiness and stay united” This podcast is about trauma and anxiety, but it is also about how we take care of ourselves and one another, how we navigate the chaos of this moment with creativity, and how we practice change in small and big ways. Connect with Hala Khouri Visit her website Follow her on Instagram at @halayoga Buy her book, Peace from Anxiety: Get Grounded, Build Resilient, Stay Connected Amidst the Chaos If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @halayoga Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD + Transcription (read transcription here)
S4 E41 · Tue, August 03, 2021
Finding Refuge: Michelle Cassandra Johnson
This week, my dear friend, Michelle Cassandra Johnson is back to help us tend to the shattered parts of ourselves so that we can embrace our wholeness and do the work of healing the collective heart. In the podcast, she says, what's needed in this moment isn’t to get back to normal or to get back to work or to get back being busy and productive. What's needed is to acknowledge what we’ve gone through and what has been lost. We must feel in order to heal. Her new book, Finding Refuge: Heartwork for Healing Collective Grief , is a radical invitation for those of us who feel brokenhearted, helpless, confused, powerless, and desperate in this moment to embrace the lost art of grieving as an essential component of healing. This book moved me and made me feel new depths and dimensions of my grief that I honestly didn't know was there. It made me reflect on how I, like many others, have attempted to manage my grief behind closed doors - alone and isolated. But Michelle reminds us that we don’t grieve in isolation in the same way that we don’t heal in isolation. This podcast is a beautiful and joyful reminder that despite the difficult and uncertain times we are facing - we are resilient together and have the capacity to meet this moment with an open heart that can heal us forward. Connect with Michelle Cassandra Johnson Visit her website Follow her on Instagram at @skillinaction Buy her book, Finding Refuge: Heartwork for Healing Collective Grief If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @skillinaction Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL
S4 E40 · Tue, July 27, 2021
Rest is Revolutionary: Tracee Stanley
Kicking off this season is the powerful Tracee Stanley , yoga teacher, author and who’s new book Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation & Awakened Clarity , has been a lifeline for me in the last couple months. In the book, Tracee says that rest is our birthright, and when we are able to embrace that - we begin to see how we have been asleep in our lives. It is an essential practice in a moment when dominant culture is telling us to get back to normal and perform being woke. We practice rest so that we can remain awake - awake to the reality of our interdependence and collective survival. Connect with Tracee Stanley Visit her website Follow her on Instagram at @tracee_stanley Buy her book, Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation & Awakened Clarity If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @tracee_stanley Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD + Transcription (read transcription here)
S3 E39 · Thu, December 17, 2020
Reaching for Each Other
This conversation is really timely as it explores how we reach for each other across distance so that we can build beloved communities in these unique times. It features Minister Lauren Cunningham, Francisca Porchas Coronado, Rev Brandon Wrencher and Minister leea allen and offers a really cool behind the scenes perspective by leaders who are innovating and adapting community spaces for healing and grieving and transformation. One of the things Lauren reminds us of is that “there is no end to what a living world will demand of you”. Even while our presence is reduced to screens and keystrokes, muting and unmuting - we are still alive and the world demands we live. Imagining new ways of being together and healing together and growing together is what this moment is calling for. And this episode is a good start. Connect with Reverend Lauren Cunningham: Follow Lauren on Instagram Connect with Francisca Porchas Coronado: Follow Francisca on Instagram Check out La Cura Podcast Connect with Minister leea allen: Follow leea on twitter Connect with Reverend Brandon Wrencher: Follow Rev Brandon on Facebook Check out Good Neighbor Movement Connect with Faith Matters Network: Follow them on instagram @faithmattersnetwork Check out the Daring Compassion Course Donate to their Nurture Brave Space fundraising campaign <p class="" style="white
S3 E38 · Thu, December 10, 2020
Can Our Movements Be The Healing: Kazu Haga, Xan West, LCF8M, Carinne Luck
This episode is from a three-part series called “How We Get Through: Collective Resilience in a World on Fire ” from our friends at Faith Matters Network. It aired in the Fall of 2020 which was a time in our country where we were literally on fire - California and other parts of the country were raging during the time of this series. But we were also amidst many pandemics at once - the pandemic of covid, the pandemic that is structural and cultural racism, the pandemic of record inequality and of course the pandemic that is climate change. And what is different about this series - besides the fact that it features brilliant movement leaders - is that it explores not just what we DO in the face of this fire but how we BE together; how we keep going and meet whatever comes next so that we can bring about the future that we all deserve. This particular conversation featuring Kazu Haga , Xan West , organizers from the chilean movement La Coordinadora Feminista 8M and Carinne Luck explores how movements in and of themselves are healing - how healing has been woven in from building relationships in small teams to exploring how to create containers for rage and healing in the streets and bring in intentional joy. It is a provocative conversation about reclaiming our power to heal ourselves and one another. Connect with Kazu Haga Follow Kazu on Facebook Buy his book Healing Resistance Check out East Point Peace Academy Connect with Xan West: Follow Xan on Instagram Check out their work at One Life Institute Connect with LCF8M: Check out their website Connect with Carinne Luck: Follow Carinne on Twitter Connect with Fai
S3 E37 · Thu, December 03, 2020
Being Human: adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill, Sydney Morgan
This episode comes from a series hosted by our friends at Faith Matters Network called How to Get Through: collective resilience in a world on fire . It was designed to prepare social justice movements to weave healing and care into our lives and work before, during and after crises and big “movement moments” like this one. This first conversation with Sidney Morgan, adrienne maree brown , Prentis Hemphill and Micky Scottbey Jones is about how we actually do the work of being human together - flawed and all, mistakes, conflict and pain included. How do we survive these times? How do we navigate conflict? How do we live into accountability? How do we take care of each other along the way. It is a powerful and brave exploration of the practice of being change, not just doing change. And it is essential medicine for this moment. Enjoy. Connect with adrienne: Follow her on Instagram at @adriennemareebrown Buy her books: Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, We Will Not Cancel Us Check out her website Connect with Prentis: Follow them on Instagram @prentis.h Listen to their podcast Finding Your Way Check out their website Connect with Sydney: Check out her website Connect with Faith Matters: Follow them on instagram @faithmattersnetwork Check out the Daring Compassion Course <p clas
S3 E36 · Thu, November 26, 2020
Decolonizing Yoga: Susanna Barkataki
This conversation has been a long time coming for all of us who are navigating both wellness practice and social justice. Because it is not enough to just do the right thing in this moment, we have to go back to the roots to heal and repair what has been broken and violated. And we have with us today a true teacher in that work. Susanna Barkataki is an Indian yoga practitioner, teacher, and now author of the recent book Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice . In this episode, we talk about how to personally and collectively navigate the violent history of colonization and appropriation, how to show up for each other in solidarity and how to live into the wisdom of spiritual practice. This conversation gave me so much to reflect on and reckon with around what it means to truly embrace and embody this practice and live your life according to its values. And tune in to the end because Susanna gives us the gift of the Sacred Pause - a practice and gesture that can help us meet this moment and breathe into the next with grace and courage
S3 E35 · Thu, October 22, 2020
Practicing Politics: Nelini Stamp, Rev angel Kyodo williams, Anasa Troutman, Carinne Luck
This episode on practicing politics features Nelini Stamp from Working Families Party, Rev angel Kyodo williams author of Radical Dharma, Anasa Troutman of the Big We and Carinne Luck, a well known organizer and activist. What I learned from this conversation is that building a politics of care is multidimensional. It’s telling a new story of who we are and who we are becoming, it’s building community depth and power wherever you are, it’s going up against old systems of oppression even while we dream up new systems of liberation. And it’s doing the internal work of decolonizing and deconstructing our own beliefs so that we can live into our greatest potential together. This is the practice of politics that is internal and external, that is individual and collective, that is cultural and systemic, that is tactical and transformative, that is resistant and imaginative. And as Nelini reminds us, we can be all those things. And we need to.
S3 E34 · Thu, October 15, 2020
We Find Hope in History: Ruby Sales & Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis
This podcast was a part of our 2020 CTZN Summit about how to meet his moment with love and justice and build a politics of care that doesn't leave anyone behind. And this conversation is really special. It features Ruby Sales, a deeply committed grassroots activist, eloquent theologen and veteran of the southern freedom movement, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis who is a nationally sought after preacher, activist and author and Micky Scottbey Jones, also known as the justice doula and creator of brave space. This conversation explores what it is to hope in these times, how to reclaim ourselves beyond white supremacy and why we need a movement of intimacy and accountability. All of it points us towards healing our way back to wholeness - individually and collectively. Connect with Ruby Sales Follow her on facebook Check out SpiritHouse Project’s website Connect with Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis Follow her on Instagram at @revjacquilewis Check out her website Connect with Micky Scottbey Jones Follow her on Instagram at @electric_lady_msj If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga @revjacquilewis @rubynsales @iammickyjones Subscribe to CTZN Podcast Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLRE AD
S3 E33 · Wed, October 07, 2020
Community Care: Prentis Hemphill & Francisca Porchas Coronado
This conversation was a part of the 2020 CTZN Summit, a gathering of courageous conversation to explore how to navigate this moment and create a politics of community care. And this episode with Prentis Hemphill and Francisca Porchas Coronado really challenges us to dig deep and reckon with how we got here and how we can show up for one another. Prentis Hemphill is movement facilitator, Somatics teacher and practitioner, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and political organizing. Prentis spent many years working with powerful movements and organizations, most recently as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network. Prentis is the founder of the Black Embodiment Initiative and host of the Finding Our Way Podcast featuring brilliant embodied leaders like adrienne maree brown, Sonya Renee Taylor, Mia Birdsong and more. Francisca Porchas Coronado is a Mexican immigrant, Chicana, feminist, and former organizer with over 17 years of of movement experience. Francisca has worked on issues of civil rights, environmental and climate justice, criminalization, and immigration at the intersection of race and class at a local and national level. She has been one of the leading voices against deportations of migrants in the country. Her work is rooted in the belief that low income people of color, especially Black and Latinx people have the power to transform themselves, each other and their communities. Francisca is the Founder and Director of the Latinx Therapists Action Network, a wellness project that centers the healing of migrant peoples on the front lines of the immigrant rights movement. She is currently a practitioner in-training of Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing Trauma Healing Program. Ms. Porchas Coronado has been initiated into the ancient, indigenous Yoruba tradition of IFA for over a decade and is currently a priestess in training. In our conversation, we talked about the practice of showing up, living into accountability, relinquishing rightness, movement as healing and what its gonna take to build a culture of community care. At one point, Prentis said: This moment is asking you to change. Are you willing to be a new person, now? I think that is the question that we can all take with us. Listen to this conversation as many times as you need to live it. Connect with Prentis Hemphill: Subscribe to Finding Our Way Podcast Follow them on Instagram at @prentis.h Check out their website Connect with F
S3 E32 · Wed, August 19, 2020
Raising our Hands: Jenna Arnold
In the wake of the 2016 election, our guest, Jenna Arnold, hosted listening circles around the country to understand why 53% of white women voted for Trump. She wrote a book that captured those learnings called Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines . This podcast is particularly for white women who are reckoning with their complicity and how to show up in this critical political moment to make things right. In our conversation, Jenna shares about what she discovered about the insecurities and cultural norms that are holding us back from real allyship. She points to our addiction to performance chores, perfection and privilege that protects our positionality and gets in the way of showing up for the wellbeing of everyone. Throughout the conversation she had me asking, “How is that me?,” “How do I do that?,” "How can I do better?” And that is exactly what she intended with this book—to ask white women to take a hard look at themselves and dismantle the systems that are within them and all around them. This conversation is a welcome invitation to do our work and take our place—without taking up too much space, in the movement. Check it out. Connect with Jenna Arnold: Visit her website Follow her on Instagram at @itsjenna Buy her book, Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting Responsibility, and Find Our Place on the New Frontlines If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @itsjenna Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD
S3 E31 · Wed, August 05, 2020
Brave Space: Micky Scottbey Jones
So often we hear about safe space—the promise of a judgement and harm-free environment. But is that even possible? Micky Scottbey Jones is calling us to a different practice—one where we can bravely risk mistakes, call each other to more truth and love, and co-create a space where we each have room to grow as activists while still being accountable to one another. In our conversation, she talks about how, if we want to work towards the abolition of systems of harm and oppression, we actually need to practice that with one another. Micky embodies what it is to walk the talk and live into her values; it is an invitation for all of us to hold the complexity of this work and be brave together. You can find Micky at faithmattersnetwork.org Follow her on Instagram @electric_lady_msj , Twitter @iammickyjones , and Facebook @MSJspeaks . If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @electric_lady_msj, and @kkellyyoga, -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD and check out our other free content at ctznwell.org .
S3 E31 · Wed, July 15, 2020
Love & Rage: Lama Rod Owens
This interview was a part of our inaugural CTZN Live event—a new monthly live broadcast of the podcast that invites YOU the community to join the conversation...and we were so blessed to feature Lama Rod Owens, author of two of our favorite books at CTZN WELL: the newly released Love & Rage and Radical Dharma , which he co-authored with Rev angel Kyodo williams and Dr. Jasmine Syedullah. Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, yoga instructor, and generational leader who is showing us a path to liberation through anger. In our conversation he says: “So many of us have been led into believing that the spiritual practice is something that's supposed to be about happiness, and having fun, and going to beautiful spas, and looking beautiful, and having the right clothes, and really the spiritual path is really about the work”. The “work” that he’s referring to includes examining our anger and rage, and asking ourselves “what is my anger trying to protect?” What is the hurt and heartbreak that lies underneath that needs to be tended to?” He says, “being in relationship to our broken-heartedness, no matter who we are, is one of the most honest, authentic, and disarming things that we can do to create community together.” Connect with Lama Rod: Follow him on Instagram at @lamarodowens Buy his book, Love & Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @lamarodowens You can also click below to tweet: This is about letting go of these old structures and creating new structures. It's about dreaming new ways of being free because we realize that there's so much at stake if we don't do the dreaming. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD + Transcription ( read transcription here )
S3 E31 · Fri, June 19, 2020
Race & Resilience: Michelle Cassandra Johnson
This recording is from a live event featuring mi Michelle Cassandra Johnson on Juneteenth 2019. Michelle has been a regular on CTZN Podcast . She has been an antiracist trainer for over 20 years, the author of the must read book skill in action and my co-conspirator in the work of Race & Resilience. This conversation isn’t just about Juneteenth and the history of racism in America, it's not just about how white supremacy is at work on our bodies and minds, it's not just about reparations and strategies for liberation, it's about relationship and humanity and how to this work across lines of difference. Michelle says that we don’t need more people dying, more statistics, more harm being done to black and brown people to know that white supremacy is happening; to wake up and acknowledge that something is terribly wrong. We just need to do something about it. Before it is too late. Before more people have to die. She invites us to “remember to remember” - who we are beyond whiteness, beyond fear, beyond separation, so that we can find our way back to ourselves and to one another. This podcast is the medicine of truth and the hope for liberation. Connect with Michelle: Follow her on Instagram at @skillinaction Buy her book, Skill in Action Support her on Patreon If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @skillinaction You can also click below to tweet: Allyship can't be about the gold star or the reward or being seen or fame. It’s about folks really noticing and seeing what's going on and feeling committed to changing what's happening in this culture, because we're dying because of the culture. Check out the latest #CTZN Podcast. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD
S3 E30 · Mon, June 15, 2020
Revolutionary Love: Valarie Kaur
Valarie Kaur says that Revolutionary Love is the call of our time - a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are a part of me I do not yet know. That is exactly how Valarie and i met: two unlikely allies who found one another across time and space and difference. And while it was our suffering that united us, it was our relationship that transformed us. She says of this moment: “The future is dark. But is this the darkness of the tomb – or the darkness of the womb?” Resistance alone will not deliver us. We need a love that will give birth to the nation that we all deserve. Connect with Valarie: Follow her on Instagram at @valariekaur Subscribe to The Revolutionary Love Project Buy her book, See No Stranger If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , @kkellyyoga and @valariekaur. You can also click below to tweet: Revolutionary love is when you are brave enough to see no stranger, to let their grief into your heart, to fight for them when they need you, and to create a world that we're all longing for, where all of us see one another as sisters and brothers and siblings and no person is considered disposable. @valariekaur on #CTZN Podcast @ctznwell @kkellyyoga Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD
S3 E29 · Wed, May 20, 2020
Wellness Beyond Whiteness: Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Michelle Johnson, Seane Corn, & Anasa Troutman
Wellness Beyond Whiteness is one of our favorite conversations we've ever had at CTZNWELL - exploring how we perpetuate a culture of exclusion in wellness spaces, how to move beyond #DiversityAndInclusion, and what the cost of whiteness is on our collective wellness. Kerri recorded this panel with Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Michelle Cassandra Johnson, Seane Corn, and Anasa Troutman at the 2018 Wellspring Conference hosted by Wanderlust, and we’re dropping it today to give you a taste of the deep conversations that we - along with Anasa and Nicole Cardoza - have organized starting THIS MONDAY, May 25, for our free series The Wellness of WE ! The Wellness of WE is an 8-day online practice and conversation series to advance collective wellbeing. It features incredible leaders like India Arie, Mia Birdsong, Valarie Kaur, Taj James, Sonya Renee Taylor, Reggie Hubbard, Manoj Dias , the badass women on this original panel...and more. Sign up for free at www.thewellnessofwe.com , and starting Monday you’ll get a daily themed email with a guided practice, lots of juicy content, PLUS an invitation to join a live conversation each evening. (No worries if you can’t join live. We’ll post the recordings afterward.) Topics include: The WE in Wellness Worthy & Well From Self-Care to Community Care Revolutionary Love Wellness Beyond Whiteness (with these original panelists!) Rest & Reparations Politics & Economics of Wellbeing Joyful Revolution We hope you can join us. Be sure to RSVP for free at www.thewellnessofwe.com . If this conversation resonates, we’d love for you to take a screenshot of the podcast and tag us on Instagram at @ ctznwell ! And to invite your Facebook friends to The Wellness of WE, here’s the event . Follow Rev. angel Follow Michelle Follow Seane Follow Anasa
S3 E28 · Sun, May 10, 2020
Beyond Incarceration: Oneika Mays
There’s a strange reference right now about how being in isolation is akin to being locked up. We’re seeing that narrative replicated around the country in the many white-led riots against the stay-at-home rules. Let’s be clear: this quarantine is NOTHING like what people experience in prison. In fact, the outbreaks in prisons around the country reveal that incarcerated people are both more exposed and less able to protect themselves. But beyond the current circumstances, many are questioning the role and efficacy of incarceration all together. And one of those advocates is Oneika Mays, the first Mindfulness Coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, where she works one-on-one with incarcerated people to help them cope with the stress and trauma of incarceration and foster resilience for re-entry and recovery. Oneika says that our system “is a reflection of the society that we live in, and changes in society will change the way that we police, will change the way we treat certain people in schools and in certain neighborhoods. And when those kinds of things change, when we change our perception of the way that we view groups of people, that will lead to lasting change.” This conversation is fierce and vulnerable and exactly what we all need to hear right now. Special thanks to guest host Ryan LeMere and Oneika for putting forth the courageous conversation that we all need to be a part of right now. Connect with Oneika: -Follow her on Instagram at @oneikamays -Join her Monday meditations -Stay tuned for Oneika’s virtual retreats at www.oneikamays.com -Check her out in Aligned Magazine Here’s how you can take action: - Support incarcerated individuals impacted by COVID-19 through mutual aid - unlockjustice.org - Women’s Pretrial Release Initiative - The Women’s Project If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell , <a href="htt
S3 E27 · Thu, April 23, 2020
Together Apart: Priya Parker
In this episode. we talk about how power works in group gatherings and how to facilitate without getting in the way of the magic. Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters and host of the new Together Apart Podcast, says in every group there is a beautiful conversation that could actually change people, you just have to find out what that is. She is inviting us into an inquiry about how to unleash the unique and necessary conversations that we are meant to have. She calls for good controversy - saying it helps us examine what we hold dear, our values, our priorities, and our non-negotiables. As we navigate this moment, we’re being challenged to imagine new ways of connecting and organizing to determine how to best move forward together. The art of gathering is essential to remembering who we are, why we are here and what is possible when we come together apart. -Check out Priya’s new podcast Together Apart -Get her book The Art of Gathering -Follow her @priyaparker on Instagram and Twitter If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @priyaparker, and @kkellyyoga, and click below to tweet: "Every group you're in, there's a beautiful conversation that could actually change people. You just have to figure out what it is." @priyaparker on the latest #CTZN Podcast from @ctznwell with @kkellyyoga #togetherapart -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD and check out our other free content at ctznwell.org .
S3 E26 · Thu, April 09, 2020
Rage Becomes Her: Soraya Chemaly
Today we're talking about righteous anger and indignation with writer and activist Soraya Chemaly. Her book Rage Becomes Her explores how women's expressions of anger are vital to their own health, freedom, and wellbeing. Despite the fact that we women have plenty of things to be mad about - unequal pay, unchecked sexual harassment and abuse, just to name a few - anger is still considered a taboo emotion around the world. We're called emotional, hysterical, irrational, and yet Soraya argues that anger holds information that is essential to our liberation. This is not a self-help book for anger management, but rather an in-depth investigation into the perils and possibilities of anger and what's possible when we unleash our sacred rage on the world. Take a listen. - Get Rage Becomes Her - Follow Soraya on Instagram and Twitter If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @sorayachemaly, and @kkellyyoga, and click below to tweet: "What people are saying when they're angry is that they have a need and they're asking their society - whether that's family or their workplace or their spouse - to pay attention to that need." #RageBecomesHer author @schemaly on #CTZN Podcast: ctznwell.org @ctznwell @kkellyyoga -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD and check out our other free content at ctznwell.org .
S3 E25 · Wed, April 01, 2020
COVID-19 Special Episode: A Call to Action for Community Care with Nicole Cardoza and Ryan Lemere
This virus is exposing our inequities, leaving some people more physically and economically vulnerable than others. In the absence of systems that protect people in times like these, it’s up to us to respond. In this special CTZN Podcast in a time of Coronavirus, we’re checking in with two of our favorite people about what we can do to show up right now. Nicole Cardoza is a wellness leader and founder of Reclamation Ventures , a venture fund dedicated to closing the wellness gap, and has quickly pivoted her focus to providing real-time financial relief to our most vulnerable community members. Ryan LeMere is an artist, designer, thinker, and founder of Aligned Magazine, which explores the intersection of culture, wellbeing, and social responsibility. This podcast is raw and unplanned and a window into how we’re coping during this crisis, and what's possible when we have each other’s backs and build systems and politics of community care. Check it out. - Download the Coronavirus Community Care Resource Guide - Sign up to lead or join a community care “pod” - Support Reclamation Ventures and follow their work on Instagram -Follow Nicole and Ryan on Instagram If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot add tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @reclamationventures, @nicoleacardoza, and @ryan_lemere, and click below to tweet: "In the absence of systems that protect people in times like these, it’s up to us to respond." Check out this special #CTZN Podcast on building systems and a politics of collective care with @kkellyyoga @nicolecardoza + @rplemere. @ctznwell #communitycare #covid19 #coronavirus -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD and check out our other free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S3 E24 · Thu, March 12, 2020
Stay Woke: Justin Michael Williams
This week, we're talking to Justin Michael Williams , a pop star, meditation teacher, and author of the new book, Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide for the Rest of Us. In our conversation, he talks about how we need a different kind of meditation for these times, one that doesn't pretend the struggle doesn't exist. Instead, he's challenging us to stay woke. “Staying woke,” he says, “isn't just about knowledge, it is a call to action, and it matters most when you feel like giving up.” But Justin isn't just challenging us to wake up, he's challenging us to dream bigger. Check it out. -Get Justin’s book, Stay Woke: Meditation for the Rest of Us - Follow Justin on Instagram If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot add tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @wejustwill, and click below to tweet: "What matters is who you become in the pursuit of the dream." #StayWoke author @wejustwill joins @kkellyyoga on the latest CTZN Podcast. Check it out: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast/justin-michael-williams @ctznwell #CTZN -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S3 E23 · Tue, February 25, 2020
Me & White Supremacy: Layla F. Saad
Today, we're talking to Layla Saad, author, speaker and teacher on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change, and the author of Me and White Supremacy. -Get Layla’s Book, Me and White Supremacy - Follow Layla on Instagram -Join Layla’s Patreon community If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot add tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @laylafsaad, and click below to tweet: “The humility is that you, an individual person, aren't going to change the world in a day or even a lifetime. This is so much bigger than you. & at the same time each person needs to show up.” #MeAndWhiteSupremacy author Layla Saad on #CTZN @ctznwell ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast More about this episode: A big theme in this podcast is reckoning, and you can literally hear me doing that throughout the conversation where I am learning in real time, because I know this work is constant. Layla calls it a practice, an everyday commitment to interrogate the ways in which we are implicated in white supremacy and a choice to do something different. She says that if you are doing this work and you are still comfortable then not much has changed, while intellectually you may understand what's going on. If your life hasn't had to change in any significant way, it's not really making a difference. I say this as someone who is examining my own life, how I do this work, even how I manage this podcast and the question I think all white folks should be asking themselves is what am I willing to risk? What am I willing to give up to put on the line so that we can disrupt the violence that is white supremacy and be an active part of transforming our culture and community? This podcast is calling white folks like myself up to a whole new level of practice and action. One that exists beyond our comfort zone, beyond business-as-usual, beyond our attachments to power and position. It asks us to trust in something bigger than our individual selves to believe so strongly in something that we will fight for it no matter what. And if we do that, perhaps we can become the good ancestors we were meant to be. Check it out. -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S3 E21 · Thu, December 05, 2019
From Justice to Joy: Anasa Troutman
We’re talking with writer, producer, and entrepreneur Anasa Troutman, who besides being a well-known cultural disruptor and love activist, is challenging us to go beyond justice and towards sustainable joy for all. - Tune in to The BIG We Podcast - Follow Anasa on Instagram - Check out Anasa’s other offerings If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot add tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @anasatroutman, and click below to tweet: "You can't transform something you don't love." @anasatroutman drops so. much. wisdom. on the latest #CTZN Podcast with @kkellyyoga. Check it out! ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell #loveactivist #joy #justice #radicallove More about this episode: I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this one thing Anasa said in our conversation: “You can’t transform something that you don’t love.” And as someone deeply committed to personal and collective transformation, it had me reflecting on how I love. Not, how I do more activism or be a better ally, but how do I love for real? That too is justice. Justice calls us not only to correct whatever is in the way of love, but it also invites us to live into that love. And that inquiry starts with self-love. Because how we love ourselves IS how we love everyone else. But the truth is, we live in a culture that does not reinforce self-love. It says love yourself only when you are smarter, healthier, more productive, more perfect. We are taught that love is conditional and so it’s no wonder that we project conditional love to others and make choices that are not loving to the whole of humanity. But when we can claim radical love for ourselves - the kind that is expressed through grace and compassion and forgiveness - then we can start to extend that kind of love outwards in relationship, in how we repair the breach and love across lines of difference and disagreement and in how we love through our choices, through our votes and especially through our money. Anasa reminds us that love is not some idea or intention. Love is who we are and what we do. And when we embody that kind of love fully, then justice and joy will flow. This conversation is a reminder and realignment with the very thing that is most important and essential to our work: LOVE. Check it out. -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org</a
S3 E21 · Thu, November 21, 2019
Build, Block, Be: Katie Loncke
Perhaps the most frequent question I get asked is, “How do I show up in this moment?” To help us answer that is the amazing Katie Loncke of Buddhist Peace Fellowship , one of the most throw-down, committed activists I know. But what makes her unique is that she’s as committed to who she’s being as to what she’s doing. Katie helped create “Build Block Be,” a holistic framework for how we respond that acknowledges and celebrates all of our unique roles, strategies, and medicine as necessary and essential for how we bring forth collective liberation. Buddhist Peace Fellowship What’s My Role in the Revolution? - Buddhist Peace Fellowship Course Katie on Instagram If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @katieloncke, and click below to tweet: "You're perfect just as you are, and you could use a little improvement." @buddhistpeace's @kloncke quotes Suzuki Roshi on #CTZN Podcast with @kkellyyoga @ctznwell ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast "I won't take sides, but I'll resist injustice." @buddhistpeace's @katieloncke on how she shows up in her activism - and the nuances of peaceful activism that centers justice and liberation. Hear her convo with @kkellyoga on #CTZN Podcast from @ctznwell ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast More about this episode: Katie invites us to consider the quieter instruments of our activism. She imagines a different kind of politics: one that is irrepressible rather than forceful, steady and sustained with the patience of the ocean that erodes the cliff side. While we at times chant “no justice no peace” in outrage at a system that refuses to listen, Katie asks us to not underestimate peace, and to lean into the listening that it brings so that we can Be more effective in how we Block and Build together. Block is how we confront systemic harm, Build is how we create connection and collaborative tools, and Be is how we cultivate a capacity and resilience to show up for what’s needed. This conversation gave me hope, not just for what is possible, but for how it can feel and who we can Be together. Join Katie and me, along with our friend Carinne Luck, on Monday 11/25/19 at 8ET/5PT for a free online meet-up about Build Block Be and how to use it at the family holiday table to keep your peace without shrinking in silence. And if you’re tuning in after the date’s past, find the recording at patreon.com/ctznwell . Join CTZNWELL on<a href="https://w
S2 E20 · Thu, September 19, 2019
Reclaiming Wellness: Nicole Cardoza
This is the first podcast we’ve ever recorded on a school bus, which felt appropriate given it was a conversation with the Nicole Cardoza, the founder of Yoga Foster, which is focused on making yoga in schools elementary. Nicole is a disruptor, a creator, and a connector who is constantly moving the line forward of what’s possible in wellness. She recently launched Reclamation Ventures, an impact fund dedicated to investing in underestimated entrepreneurs closing the wellness gap, and is innovating towards a more accessible wellness for everyone. Follow Nicole Check out Yoga Foster Support Reclamation Ventures If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot add tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @nicoleacardoza, and click below to tweet: "Some of the big work is redefining your relationship with yourself. What are you willing to take, what are you willing to let go of, what boundaries are you willing to give yourself?" @nicolecardoza on #CTZN Podcast @ctznwell @kellyyoga ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast More about this episode: Nicole Cardoza is shaking things up in the wellness world. And we dig deep in the latest episode of CTZN Podcast. We tackle the wellness gap that separates who gets to be well and who doesn’t, we acknowledge how white supremacy is playing out in wellness, we confront the harm of corporations and institutions that continue to put profits over people. And we reckon with our own complicity and responsibility in participating in a system and culture that upholds inequity and exclusion and what we need to do about it. We’re in a really messy moment in the world—navigating big entrenched systems that are set up to keep some people well and some people out. But as Nicole reminds us, even as things fall apart, new ideas and innovations are emerging that are redefining wellness and what’s possible when we expose the myth of a wellness that is rooted in capitalism and white supremacy and invest in people and programs that take care of everyone. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S2 E19 · Thu, August 22, 2019
From Rock Bottom to Resilience: Charlie Engle
In this episode, we're talking to the writer, runner and recovering addict, Charlie Engle, who I met many years ago over our shared love for running, but whose story blew me away. Known to many as "The Running Man,” Charlie managed to go from rock bottom to resilience many times over. And he continues to push the limits of what is possible for the human body and for human kind. More about Charlie Follow his adventure through the 5.8 Buy his book If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot add tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @charlieengle, and click below to tweet: "Realizing nobody else was coming to save me was a blessing in that I no longer had to wait for that person." @charlieengle with @kkellyyoga on #CTZN Podcast @ctznwell ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast More about this episode: I refer to Charlie Engle as the “Anthony Bourdain of running” because he is relentless in his curiosity to learn, in exploring the edges of human potential and in experiencing the fullness of life on the planet. Throughout his journey, he has been pushing himself beyond addiction, beyond physical and mental limitations, beyond a criminal record and beyond hopelessness. In this episode, we talk about his rocky road to recovery and the role that running and spirituality has continuously played in helping him overcome enormous obstacles and achieve super-human feats, like running 4300 miles across the Sahara desert. And his next adventure is nothing short of amazing: to be the first athlete to trek from the lowest point on earth to the highest summit on every continent. He calls it the 5.8 mile project - the vertical sliver of space in which all humans on the planet live. A space that has nothing to do with nations or borders, rather, it’s about depth and shared humanity. Charlie is running for something greater than personal highs and lows or our differences and disagreements. He’s running for all of us. This episode is all about resilience and what’s possible when we push beyond our limitations and discover our greatest potential. Check it out. -Join CTZNWELL on Patreon -Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram -Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S2 E18 · Thu, July 11, 2019
An Engaged Kind of With-ness: Maytha Alhassen
Dr. Maytha Alhassen is a Syrian-American journalist, poet and scholar, working to bridge the worlds of social justice, academic research, popular culture and healing arts. And on this episode of CTZN Podcast, she schools us on the history of immigration and white domination in America. Learn more about May Follow her If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot add tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @maythaalhassen, and click below to tweet: To be an ally is to testify and bear witness. Dr. @maythaalhassen schools us on the history of #immigration and white domination in America on this ep of #CTZN Podcast. Check it out: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @kkellyyoga @ctznwell More about this episode: When talking about Muslim bans or immigration issues, Dr. Maytha Alhassen - Syrian journalist, poet, scholar and healer - says that it’s not about whether immigrants are welcome or not. It's about white supremacy. Trump’s travel ban was not the beginning but a continuation of a legacy of immigration restrictions and bans in America. And it began with the Naturalization Act of 1790 which said only free white people could be citizens of this country. What we are witnessing right now - with travel bans and family separation and caged children and overflowing, unsafe, unsanitary concentrations camps - was built on that legacy. And witnessing is exactly what we need to do. Not the kind of empathy that centers our feelings of others pain and just sits there. But the kind that takes action because of what has been witnessed. The word in Arabic is Shahada - which translates directly to “act of witness and testimony.” May calls it a kind of engaged “with-ness,” one that is interdependent, active and engaged. One that understands that we all have a stake in transforming systems of oppression because we are all connected. And she leaves us with the critical question and contemplation: Who is witnessing what is going on all around us? And what will we do about it? This conversation is real-time and essential. Take a listen. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S2 E17 · Thu, June 20, 2019
Race & Resilience: Michelle Cassandra Johnson
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 @ctznwell More 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 Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at<a href="http://c
S2 E16 · Thu, June 06, 2019
Courage Is Contagious: Ana Maria Archila
Ana Maria Archila is a resistance icon. She’s known by many as the “lady in the elevator” after her confrontation with Senator Jeff Flake went viral during the confirmation hearings for Justice Kavanaugh. But that wasn’t her first rodeo. Ana Maria has been disrupting, bird-dogging and advocating for human rights and dignity since she emigrated here at the age of 17. She teaches us that disruption is essential to slowing things down and getting people in power to listen. Everyday people speaking truth to power is what this country is all about. The resister. The video. The action. If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell @anamariaarchila1 and @popdemoc, and click below to tweet: "We are allowing each other to see one another more clearly, we are allowing the country to see itself more clearly." @AnaMariaArchil2 of @popdemoc on #CTZN Podcast with @kkellyyoga. Check it out: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell More about this episode: In this episode, Ana Maria shows us how everyday people can speak truth to power and how courage is contagious. We saw it in the wake of #metoo, in the wave of stories that flooded the Hart Building during the Kavanaugh hearings and, most recently, in the avalanche of abortion stories that emerged in response to the war on reproductive freedom. Our stories, each and every one of them, has been necessary for creating a moment of reckoning and making our democracy come alive. This is how the healing happens, she says. ”We are allowing each other to see one another more clearly, we are allowing the country to see itself more clearly,” and we are weaving a fabric of community care and courage that is challenging the status quo and changing the game. That is what real citizenship is all about. Not the kind that requires documents or cares where you were born. But the kind that shows up, speaks out and fights for justice for all. Check it out. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S2 E15 · Thu, May 23, 2019
Sacred Rage: Heidi Sieck
Today, we are talking with Chief Empowerment Officer, Heidi Sieck. She is the founder of #VOTEPROCHOICE, a long-time advocate for reproductive rights, and a bad-ass feminist. And when she is not getting pro-choice candidates elected or lobbying Congress, she is throwing down alongside me on the street, in the Capitol, at the Supreme Court or wherever we are needed. She’s here with us today to help us make sense of the recent abortion bans that are sweeping our nation and take back our rights. READ: The Criminalization of Women’s Bodies is All About Conservative Male Power DO: Top 10 Things To Do To Save Reproductive Rights in America JOIN: VOTEPROCHOICE If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @heidispeaks, and @voteprochoice, and click below to tweet: "We're seeing the wounds of our communities & history manifest. The question we have to ask is, what are we capable of holding space for & what are we going to do about it?" @heidispeaks w/ @kkellyyoga on #CTZN Podcast on #abortionbans & @voteprochoice ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast More about this episode: In this episode, Heidi reminds us that the recent abortion bans sweeping our nation are nothing new. States have been rolling back reproductive rights and controlling women’s bodies for over three decades. But we are, in fact, a pro-choice nation with 70% of Americans in favor of abortion rights. We just need to get organized and get engaged. And like Elizabeth Warren, Heidi’s got a plan. In a recent article, Laurie Penny wrote “This is not a moment to mince words. This is a moment for moral clarity. Women’s personhood is not conditional. Women’s sexuality is not shameful. The only shameful thing, the only thing that no citizen who believes even fractionally in freedom should tolerate, is a world in which women are treated like things.” Our rage is righteous and our fight is strategic. And we will not go back. We will tell our stories, take the streets, vote them out and do whatever it takes to protect our bodies and preserve our humanity. Because the choice to show up for one another, is perhaps the most sacred choice of all. Check it out. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on<a
S2 E14 · Thu, May 02, 2019
Screw It, I'll Go First: Nadia Bolz-Weber
Today we’re talking to Nadia Bolz-Weber, who is one of the most provocative and unexpected voices in Christianity today. She is a former stand up-comic, NY Times best selling author and founding pastor of the House for All Sinners & Saints, a Lutheran church in Denver, Colorado. But beyond her accolades and achievements, she is brutally honest, hilarious, vulnerable and profoundly wise. The Washington Post calls her a “tatted up, foul-mouthed champion to people sick of being belittled as not Christian enough for the Right or too Jesus-y for the Left." And she is committed to making a spiritual home for Junkies, Drag Queens, Outsiders and everyone in between (which is my kind of church). Her books Her website Her handle If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @sarcasticlutheran, and click below to tweet: "It's a form of leadership I call, 'screw it, I'll go first.'" @sarcasticluther on #CTZN Podcast with @kkellyyoga. Check it out: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell More about this episode: Nadia is no ordinary pastor. She is both the friend you want to spill your guts to and the teacher who helps us make sense of everything. Her gospel is that of sinners and saints, shame free sexuality and finding God in all the wrong people. And she’s not afraid to talk about anything, whether it be sex in the church, white supremacy or the dentist. She leads from radical truth, a form of leadership she calls, “Screw it, I’ll go first.” In our conversation, you’ll hear us explore the dangers of dualism and the power of grace, anti-excellence and pro-participation, whiteness and worthiness and coming to terms with the fact that we are fucked and we need help. It’s a humbling and human exploration of what it means to be alive today and how to find God and grace in the mess of it. It’s also the most foul-mouthed podcast we’ve had to date...and it’s perfect. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S2 E13 · Thu, April 18, 2019
Do the Work: Rachel Cargle
This conversation with Rachel Cargle is fierce and it is important. And while white folks need to #dothework, as Rachel says, it’s not really about us. It’s about protecting Black lives. And so she invites us to consider how we are really showing up and for what purpose. It’s not enough to attend an event or post something on social media. Real “allyship” looks like going to get our people, paying our privilege forward and listening - really listening - to Black women and following their lead. Follow Rachel on instagram . And check out her website for events, lectures and social syllabi on allyship and inclusive feminism. If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @rachel.cargle, and click below to tweet: "Whenever you're feeling bad about yourself, ask: Who's profiting off of this?" @rachelcargle with @kkellyyoga on #CTZN Podcast: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell More about this episode: If you don’t know who Rachel is, you must be hiding under a rock because she has become one of the most prominent and provocative voices in intersectional and inclusive feminism. She is a writer, speaker, academic and activist who uses her platform to speak truth and wake white women up. And with over 200,000 instagram followers, people are listening. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S2 E12 · Thu, April 04, 2019
White Fragility: Robin DiAngelo
Why is it so hard for white people to talk about race? In this episode, we talk with Robin DiAngelo about white fragility and the defensive moves that white people make when confronting or challenged with racism. Get the book! White Fragility Discussion Guide Find an event with Robin DiAngelo If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @diangelorobin, and click below to tweet: Dear white folx: "The game is up. You are a racist." #WhiteFragility author #RobinDiAngelo gets into why it's so hard for white people to talk about race, in convo with @kkellyyoga on #CTZN Podcast: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell More about this episode: In this episode, we're talking about white fragility, with the woman who coined the phrase, Robin DiAngelo . White fragility can look like anger or fear or guilt or tears or just about anything that allows us to escape our discomfort. It's not just causing harm to the people of color we engaged with, it is holding us back from any kind of meaningful dialogue and work across lines of difference. Now, for all of you white folks thinking, “this is not me, I'm a good white person”. This IS you and it's also me, because racism isn't just about bad people. It's about a system and culture that is designed to uphold white dominance. As I discovered in reading her book, the behaviors attributed to fragility are more subtle than you think because that's how white supremacy and cultural racism works. It's insidious and often invisible, especially to those who benefit and in this episode, you'll hear Robin say, "The game is up. You are a racist." When we can get there, when we can acknowledge how and when and where we are being racist, then we can get to work. I am one of those people and this conversation unlocked a whole other level of my own racism and really challenged me to reckon with where am I still actively participating in white supremacy, how am I attached to the unearned benefits it affords me and what am I willing to risk so that we can all get free? What I've learned is that we can survive our discomfort and fragility but we may not survive the violence of white supremacy. This episode is both a reckoning and a call to action
S2 E11 · Thu, March 21, 2019
Pleasure Activism: adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown is never satisfied with the obvious, the visible, the surface - but rather endeavors to dig deeper, to go underneath and to venture beyond what we think we know about ourselves and one another. Her book, Emergent Strategy, has been a disruptive force in the movement in all the best ways - challenging us not just to do better, but to BE better. Join us for a provocative episode of CTZN Podcast that explores accountability and redemption, reclaiming pleasure and making like slugs. RECOMMENDED READING: Emergent Strategy , Pleasure Activism MAGIC/POTIONS: Pleasure Activist Potion PLAYLIST: Muted (Beyond R Kelly) If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @adriennemareebrown, and click below to tweet: "All the big things we're longing or are made up of a lot of small, personal, radical, brave choices." @kkellyyoga interviews #PleasureActivism author @adriennemaree on this ep of #CTZN Podcast: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell More about this episode: As you will see in this episode, being with best-selling author and pleasure activist, adrienne maree brown is like being on a journey. She takes you to places you have never been and paints a picture of humanity that you never thought possible. And she draws out of you, your best self in spite of yourself. In this episode, you will hear me tell my own story of humiliation and harm and how I was held to account by my community. But adrienne says that “accountability IS community”. It’s how we hold one another in love and justice. And if we can understand that - that we are both whole and broken at the same time - we can learn to love ourselves into liberation. adrienne encourages us to surrender to a mushroom-like existence that is fungal and primal and beautiful and sensual and pleasurable. And, if we can tie together at that level, we will be unstoppable. I am all in for that journey with her and I encourage to come along. Enjoy the show. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E10 · Thu, June 21, 2018
Wage Beauty: Mark Gonzales
In this episode, we are talking with Mark Gonzales - architect, storyteller, creator and author - about reshaping the public imagination and waging beauty on all fronts. He challenges us to ask hard questions of who we are and why we are here. And to be more imaginative, to dream bigger about how we can create new stories and structures that reflect our values: love, beauty and belonging. Follow Mark Get his book If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @markgonzalesco, and click below to tweet: .@markgonzalesco challenges us to ask hard questions of who we are & why we're here-to dream bigger about how we can create new stories & structures that reflect our values: love, beauty & belonging. Check him out on CTZN Podcast w/@kkellyyoga ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell More about this episode: Mark is what I would call a human architect. He is a futures designer, a storyteller, a disruptor and a creator. He wrote an incredible book called IN TIMES OF TERROR, WAGE BEAUTY which is exactly what he does. He wages beauty in the midst of destruction. He sees the potential in failure. He makes magic and art out of nothing. And on this podcast he invites us to level up. To not just disrupt and push against, but to imagine better, to dream bolder. One of my favorite quotes from his book is “context is what enables us to remember that we have survived far worse than this present moment and we will grow something far better.” He says that when we get a taste of the “real” - of love beauty and belonging - then we can reject what they are offering us. We are able to discover creativity, which he defines as introducing invention into existence. Only then can we imagine better and plot towards the world that is beyond our wildest dreams. As you listen to Mark’s words, you too will start to wonder about what’s possible and wage beauty in a whole new way. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E9 · Thu, June 07, 2018
Run for Something: Erin Schrode
Erin Schrode was an activist in the womb. By the age of 13 she had started a non-profit called Turning Green, a global student-led movement devoted to cultivating a healthy, just and thriving planet through education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices. She is young and passionate and hungry. And it’s not that she’s fearless but rather fear-with. She can face her fear and do it anyway. And at the age of 24, she surprised even herself when she decided to run for office, becoming the youngest person ever to have run for Congress. In this podcast, Erin talks to us about taking risks, doing the right thing and living a life of service. Follow Erin Check out Run for Something If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @erinschrode and click below to tweet: What gets lost when we wait for the right time? @runforsomething's @erinschrode talks with @kkellyyoga about taking risks - because the stakes are too high not to make an impact: ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast #CTZN @ctznwell More about this episode: In this podcast, we talked with Erin Schrode about what it takes to take risks and make leaps. And it reminded me of an article I read recently that said the problem for women is not winning - it’s deciding to run. When women run they are just as likely to get elected as men. But as Erin described her process of deciding, you could hear that narrative that women in particular embody - that we are never ready, never good enough, never smart enough or resourced enough to do anything much less run for office. I was inspired by Erin’s story of choosing to go all in, despite what was stacked against her. And she had me reflect on what gets lost when we wait for the right time? What’s at stake when we don’t go for it? When we live up to our potential? And her secret is this: before she decides to do anything big, she asks herself three questions: 1-Where can I be most impactful? 2-What am I most passionate about? 3-What best sets me up for a lifetime of service? And she is proving that we can start before we’re ready. And often when we do, we surprise even ourselves around what we are capable of. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at<a href="http:/
S1 E8 · Thu, May 31, 2018
Breaking the Silence: Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts
In this episode, we are sitting down with Dr. Chelsea Roberts, school teacher, yoga influencer, activist and truth-teller, as we talk about breaking the silence and how to live up to the promise of oneness in yoga and wellness communities. She believes in the power of yoga in restorative justice work and is on a mission to create more inclusive and authentic spaces of healing. Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts , former school teacher and Doctor of Education Studies, is breaking the mold and changing the face of yoga. She says that if we really want to be committed to healing in the yoga and wellness world, we have to be willing to confront the truth of how we are replicating systems of oppression and exclusion in those spaces. We have to break the silence. If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @chelsealovesyoga and click below to tweet: Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts @ChelseaJaya is changing the face of #yoga. She says if we're committed to healing, we have to confront the truth of how we're replicating systems of oppression & exclusion in those spaces. ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @ctznwell @kkellyyoga #CTZN Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E7 · Thu, May 24, 2018
Taking Back Our Power: Jamia Wilson
Jamia Wilson is many things: an activist, a feminist, a storyteller, a media-maker and a thought leader. But more than anything, she is a truth teller. In this podcast, you experience the full power and spectrum of Jamia’s feminist truth and perspective. And what I found most compelling in our conversation was her ability to be both brave and vulnerable at the same time. Jamia isn’t afraid to get uncomfortable, to tackle tough issues and to hold the complexity of our intersectionality. The deeper that we're willing to go within ourselves - in our own ability not just to speak the truth, but to know it - the more we can hold the truth for others. If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @jamiaawilson, and click below to tweet: .@jamiaw isn't afraid to talk about the tough stuff and confront with love. Check our her truth-telling interview with @kkellyyoga on #CTZN Podcast at ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast @feministpress @ctznwell More about this episode: What I really appreciate about Jamia Wilson is that she is never afraid to “go there” - to talk about the tough stuff, the issues that make people uncomfortable, to confront one another with love. But as we discuss in this podcast, speaking truth to power isn’t just something we fling around. It’s a skill set that we cultivate and channel. To build the muscle of authentic and courageous communication requires self awareness, a commitment to relationship and a curiosity and consciousness about how we got here and what it’s gonna take to change. And that is the perfect superpower for Jamia who is an activist, author and the executive director of the Feminist Press . Jamia is not just known for her provocative words, but is becoming the go-to interviewer for provocative conversations with some of the the biggest feminist icons of our time including Solange, Erykah Badu and the legend herself Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Jamia recalled some of what she’s learned from this lineage of feminists saying “it’s not just about reclaiming your time but about reclaiming your power.” In this interview, she challenges us to contemplate how we can be more fearless about leaning into our purpose, trusting our instincts and channeling our power. Powerful advice from a powerful woman. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E6 · Thu, May 17, 2018
Joy Is an Act of Resistance: Paola Mendoza
In our conversation, Paola Mendoza talks about our capacity to hold two truths at the same time. And she really embodies that. She is relentless in her resistance to the racist policies of this administration, to defending and protecting the undocumented community, and to fighting for the freedom and wellbeing of women and children. But she is simultaneously passionate in her expression, ecstatic in song and dance, and generous in her love as an organizer and mother. And she shows us that we can be many things at the same time. We need to be. If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @paolamendoza, and click below to tweet: "Without joy, you can only resist for so long before you break." @paolamendoza on #CTZN Podcast with @kkellyyoga @ctznwell ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast #joyisanactofresistance @resistancerev More about this episode: Paola Mendoza – filmmaker, author, mother, and resistor - is taking on some of the biggest issues facing humanity, and she believes that artists have a unique and essential role in catalyzing change and opening the heart of America. In this episode, Paola talks about the essential role of joy in our activism. And I've struggled with this, especially as a white, cisgender, straight person, with lots of privilege points. My activism has been intense and serious and sacrificial. I didn't give myself permission for joy. I was righteous in my commitment, but I was constantly burned out and tired. I became snarky and cynical, and I forgot how to have fun. What I learned from Paola, and what I'm starting to practice myself, is that joy itself is an act of resistance . In our conversation, Paola said, "Without joy, you can only resist for so long before you break." And communities on the front lines are really modeling this. Joy is the medicine. It keeps us resilient, it keeps us inspired, and it keeps us going. When we claim our joy, it is a radical act of defiance. In it, we affirm our existence and worthiness. Our expression in and of itself is disruptive to the status quo that tries to get us to be complicit and conform. When we sing and dance and draw and sculpt, we are shaping a new story of what is possible for ourselves and one another. One that is centered in love, justice, and interdependence. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E5 · Wed, May 09, 2018
Love Your Enemies (It Will Drive Them Crazy): Sharon Salzberg
In this episode, we are talking about love. Not the mushy, romantic kind of love. But Real Love - how to love when it’s hard or less obvious; how to love when we don’t agree; how to love in the face of so much division and oppression. And we are turning to the incredibly wise Sharon Salzberg, meditation master and and best-selling author. Sharon has been teaching Metta meditation, or loving kindness, since 1974. She’s been seminal, not just in bringing meditation and mindful practice to the west, but in modernizing the practice, making it relatable and accessible. Her latest book, Real Love, does just that. In our conversation, we tackle everything from loving our enemies to empathy burn-out to befriending our inner critic and to voting as an act of love. If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @sharonsalzberg, and click below to tweet: “Real Love is not about letting yourself off the hook. Real love does not encourage you to ignore your problems or deny your mistakes or imperfections. You see them clearly & still opt for love.” @sharonsalzberg on #CTZN Podcast with @kkellyyoga @ctznwell ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast More about this episode: Sharon ’s book really challenged my ideas about love, especially given the state of the world. It’s hard to love people who are perpetuating harm and separation. But if I’m being honest, I equally struggle with loving myself. And whenever I’d hear or read about self love, I’d roll my eyes. It just seemed impossible to me. Instead I had my own flavor of love - one that was conditional and perfectionist. A perspective, I realize, that is not very different from the culture of scarcity and supremacy that is profiting off of the idea that love or worthiness must be earned; that one must be “good enough” to get or give love. But that’s not what Sharon is talking about. Instead, she offers a more complex and inclusive perspective on real love. She says: “Real Love is not about letting yourself off the hook. Real love does not encourage you to ignore your problems or deny your mistakes or imperfections. You see them clearly and still opt for love.” Love has the capacity to exist beyond difference and division, beyond imperfections and mistakes. And when we understand real love for ourselves, we can understand it for others - especially when it’s hard. What Sharon is teaching, and what I’m learning for myself, is that love, too, is a practice. Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on<a href="https://instagram.
S1 E4 · Wed, May 02, 2018
Getting to the Heart of #MeToo: Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke set the #MeToo movement in motion long before the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the Alyssa Milano tweet or the Time’s Up campaign. It actually began more than a decade ago in Alabama to support brown and Black survivors of sexual violence. Since then, the call has gone viral, and Tarana is on a mission to help survivors navigate what comes after the hashtag. Whether you're a survivor or an ally, everyone has a place in this movement, she says. And as you’ll hear in this interview, she is proving that a movement of radical healing is not only possible, it’s happening. #MeToo is not just a movement for white cisgender women. It's about giving young people language, survivors a way forward, and the community coming together to combat sexual assault. Follow Tarana on Instagram Check out the MeTooMvmt. If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @taranaburke, and click below to tweet: “If we don’t center the voices of maringalized people, than we are doing the wrong work” @taranaburke @kkellyyoga @ctznwell #CTZN ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E3 · Wed, April 25, 2018
Change the People, Change the System: Seane Corn
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 Instagram Buy Seane’s Book Revolution of the Soul Check out Seane’s website for upcoming events If 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/ctznpodcast Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E2 · Thu, April 19, 2018
America Is Ready for Love: Marianne Williamson
Today, we are talking with Marianne Williamson, spiritual activist, best selling author, and total bad-ass. But what most people don't know about her is that she is a political powerhouse. In this episode, we’re talking about the relationship between spirituality and politics, how to be a strong woman in today’s world and getting back to loving America again. I call Marianne Williamson the matriarch of our movement. Because she’s not just bringing it on the spiritual front, she is bringing it on the political front and blazing a trail for what she calls integrative politics - a politics that is rooted in love and humanity and what we are here to do for one another. Follow Marianne on Instagram Check out her website for upcoming events, lectures and courses. Buy her book Healing the Soul of America If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell @kkellyyoga @mariannewilliamson and click below to tweet: “I don’t see politics so much a part of my spiritual practice, I see it as a part of my human practice. And i see my spirituality is about being human” @marwilliamson @ctznwell @kkellyyoga #ctznpodcast https://ctt.ac/dpEbw+ Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
S1 E1 · Wed, April 18, 2018
Why Meditation Is Not Enough: Rev. angel Kyodo williams
Reverend angel Kyodo williams, born and raised in New York, is an ordained zen priest and sensei. She is acclaimed author of Radical Dharma and Being Black: Zen and the art of living with fearlessness and grace, and that is a perfect title to describe her. She is a force of nature. In this episode, Rev angel talks about how we need to hold the intersectional complexity of who we are in America and how we came to be here. She challenges us to go beyond what is politically correct or socially acceptable and do the simple and radical thing of practicing justice and being in relationship with one another. Follow angel on Instagram And check out her website for events, lectures and social syllabi on allyship and inclusive feminism. Buy Radical Dharma: Talking Love, Justice & Liberation If this episode resonates for you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell and @zenchangeangel and click below to tweet: We are looking at a pivotal point in our nation's history where we can take a turn towards very different america. And the question is “what side of that conversation are we going to be on?” @zenchangeangel @kkellyyoga @ctznwell #CTZNpodcast ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast Join CTZNWELL on Patreon Follow CTZNWELL on Instagram Sign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLread and check out our free action guides at ctznwell.org .
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