Season 3, Episode 2: Yoga and Social justice with Dawn Lister, Daniel Groom and Jacoby Ballard

In this episode we talk to Jacoby Ballard (he/they), a social justice educator and yoga teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, who leads workshops and trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

 

We talk to Jacoby about his new book,  A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation: Buddhist-Informed Meditations, Yoga Sequences, and Tools for Liberation - and his journey to how this book came about.

 

As a yoga teacher with 20 years of experience, he leads workshops, retreats, teacher trainings, teaches at conferences, and runs the Resonance mentorship program for certified yoga teachers to find their niche and calling. In 2008, Jacoby co-founded Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn, to work at the nexus of healing and social justice. Since 2006, Jacoby has taught Queer and Trans Yoga, a space for queer folks to unfurl and cultivate resilience and received Yoga Journal's Game Changer Award in 2014 and Good Karma Award in 2016.

 

Jacoby has taught in schools, hospitals, non profit and business offices, a maximum security prison, a recovery center, a cancer center, LGBT centers, gyms, a veteran’s center, and yoga studios. He lives with his partner, child, and innumerable plant friends on unceded Goshute, Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone land, now known as Salt Lake City, Utah.

 

Connect with Jacoby here:

jacobyballard.net

IG: @jacobyballard

FB: Jacoby Ballard

 

Buy his book here:

https://uk.bookshop.org/books/a-queer-dharma-buddhist-informed-meditations-yoga-sequences-and-tools-for-liberation/9781623176518

 

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From The Heart is a podcast about Yoga, Mindfulness, healing and wellbeing from Dawn Lister and Daniel Groom, founders of Anahata Yoga Centre, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK.

Conversations in this light hearted, kind and honest podcast series brings together people who have found ways to practise self-care in their lives, by sharing their knowledge, experiences and insights.

Anahata is a heart centred and nurturing Wellbeing Studio in Leigh on Sea, Essex. Specialising in Yoga, Pilates, Yoga Therapy and mindful meditation. They offer expert tuition in small groups run by qualified and specialist professionals, who are experts in their field. Many of their teachers offer skills which support members of the public affected by long term health conditions, which may affect them physically, mentally and or emotionally.

Catch up on previous episodes via the Anahata website at www.anahatayogacentre.com/podcast