![]() ![]() * Yoga, The Body, and Embodied Social Change, Beth Berila, Melanie Klein, & Chelsea Jackson Roberts, eds. The Inner Tradition of Yoga, Michael Stone Love and Rage, Lama Rod Owens (coming out Jun 16, 2020!) angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, & Jasmine Syedullah *Myths of the Asanas, Alanna Kaivalya & Arjuna van der Kooij *The Bhagavad Gita, Eknath Easwaran trans. If you have suggestions of additional resources, please do rea ch o ut! Note: I will continue to add to this list as my own education develops. Resources with asterisks (*) indicate those used in my 200-hr Foundational Immersion & Teacher Training. Italicized resources are podcasts the rest are books. This is the essential work of yoga, and, I would argue, of living.īelow is a list of some favorite resources that I have used in my own self-study, and study of yoga. But the more we work to expose the struggle (removing avidya), and the more we understand our role in the struggle ( svadhyaya), the more readily we can engage honestly with our fellow humans ( satya) through empathy, kindness, and compassion ( ahimsa). We will continue to struggle for a long time. If you have been struggling to know what to do next, know that you are not alone. And this kind of widespread discomfort - the kind about centuries of systemic racism and oppression - is long overdue. But here’s the thing, y’all: Discomfort is good. It was uncomfortable for many, and much of the discomfort remains. Humans everywhere were been called in, loudly and explicitly, to engage in conversations about race relations. ![]() Many formerly “casual practitioners” became daily practitioners, and many requested additional resources for furthering their study of yoga and mindful living.įast-forward to June 2020, and there came yet another cultural revolution - this time, centered squarely around racial injustice. My students told me that it was their yoga practice that kept them going, that setting aside time each day to move, and more important, to feel and be present with themselves, was an essential component of their survival. From my vantage point, I saw a great increase in the number of people practicing yoga. People lost jobs and loved ones, and many lost their sense of purpose. Many people were required to change their daily habits, and to focus on simply surviving. Interviewed the wonderful Portland-based artist Daniela Molnar for variablewest. And with much fear and uncertainty in the air, there came a revolution of sorts. Lama Rod earrned a master's degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and his teachings center on freedom, self-expression. In March 2020, the world as we knew it shut down. Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen, international influencer, author of Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, and coauthor of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation. Love and Rage, is available now.Yoga as Self-Study, Self-Care, & Social Engagement Rod’s new book, Love and Anger: The Path of Liberation Through Anger. This event was American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted. How do we befriend our fear and offer it permission to teach us how to move through it into a state of freedom? How do we use our fear to connect to the fear so many other people are experiencing? Ultimately, how do we begin to love what is unlovable, especially our fear?ĭuring their time together, Tara and Lama Rod call on the teachings of Buddhadharma as well as their own intrinsic wisdom to lean into fear with love. This is a time of darkness and war and fear lies at the heart of much of the violence we are experiencing. When we react out of fear we tend to create much more harm in the world. It is easy to live with a lot of fear right now and it is even easier to react out of that fear was well. Each day we learn of a different conflict or crisis, which threatens the lives of so may people. ![]()
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