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My grandmothers never called it a wellness practice. It was just how to live. They kept positive attitudes, grew veggies and herbs. Sat with sick neighbors and prayed over them. Walked daily and sang and prayed alot. They knew, without any clinical language for it, that the body and the soul were not separate and that healing was never meant to happen alone. One grandmother lived to 92, the other lived to 105 years old. But somewhere between their generation and mine, something was severed. Black women in America entered a healthcare system that was not built to honor us, one that has consistently dismissed our pain, undertreated our symptoms, and left us to navigate chronic illness, ...
No one really teaches you how to read a magical text. In school, you are taught how to read to gain knowledge and process facts. You learn how to extract information, summarize ideas, and read with efficiency. You also may even be taught how to read for pleasure, discovering how to lose yourself in a story or follow a concept to its conclusion. But there's another way of reading, one that rarely gets named, let alone taught. And that is reading as a form of magical practice. In a modern world governed by short-form content, soundbites, and endless To Be Read lists, the desire for efficient consumption of facts and information is at an all-time high. People, myself included, keep track ...
Hello Astrology Soulmates! It's so good to sit with you for a moment. I always love these opportunities where we can slow down together and explore the language of astrology in a deeper way. If you've studied astrology for a while, you may have noticed that there comes a point where simply knowing keywords doesn't quite feel like enough anymore. You begin to sense there is a richer conversation happening in the chart, but you're just outside of it. Learning astrology is a lot like learning a new language in that knowing a few words can help you recognize what's happening, but it rarely allows you to truly enter the conversation. I learned this very personally while studying Korean. When ...
Why Set up a Home Yoga Practice?Developing a home yoga practice can be a lifeline. For many people, group yoga classes are not viable for reasons like cost, time, availability of childcare, and transportation. Unfortunately, disabled people are still rarely considered by mainstream studios, and racism and transphobia are as prevalent in the yoga industry as they are in wider society. Even for people who do feel comfortable in group yoga classes, setting up a home practice can bring the tools of yoga to life in a totally new way. If yoga is medicine, then our home practice is how we prescribe our own healing. Yoga can become a transformative part of our everyday lives, rather than ...
