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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 AlgeoBuy Trust Your Truth: Heal Self-Doubt, Awaken to Your Soul's Purpose, and Live Your Badass LifeCheck out Shannon’s workFollow Shannon on Instagram at @shannon.algeoIf this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga and @shannon.algeoJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD+ Transcription(click here to access)

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 websiteFollow Jacoby on Instagram at @jacobyballardIf this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga and @jacobyballardJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD

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-LoganVisit Vivette’s websiteFollow Vivette on Instagram at @tobaccobird65If this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga and @tobaccobird65Join CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD+ Transcription(read transcription here)

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 changeRelationship 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 JohnsonVisit Kate’s websiteFollow Kate on Instagram at @hellokatejohnsonBuy Kate’s book, Radical Friendship, Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust WorldIf this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga and @hellokatejohnsonJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD+ Transcription(read transcription here)

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 KhouriVisit her websiteFollow her on Instagram at @halayogaBuy her book, Peace from Anxiety: Get Grounded, Build Resilient, Stay Connected Amidst the ChaosIf this episode resonates with you, we’d love for you to take a screenshot and tag us on Instagram stories @ctznwell, @kkellyyoga and @halayogaJoin CTZNWELL on PatreonFollow CTZNWELL on InstagramSign up for CTZNWELL’s weekly email WELLREAD+ Transcription(read transcription here)