Q: Examine your own beliefs about white bodies, Black bodies, and police bodies. Can you trace the beginning of these beliefs? How does your existence in your body impact your beliefs about other bodi...

1I am a human being. We all have bodies that have cells, with the same number of chromosomes, that contain DNA. We are more similar than we are different and humanity's origins are based in Africa. B...

I appreciated the direction this exercise provides. I am aware of these practices and sometimes go into situations where a challenging conversation needs to take place and I "lose" the capacity to be...

I really appreciated the way he framed these as the five anchors. I have practiced Buddhist meditation and understand sitting with discomfort, watching thoughts, feelings arise and dissipate. But the ...

@nicole I know I answered this question during our time together on Saturday, but thought I'd answer here as well. While teaching, I have never encountered a situation where we weren't allowed to sing...

I just love rubbing the stomach and humming with exhales. It is soothing and so simple. Already I started sharing this with my students both in the studio/gym setting as well as the service classes st...

I love these practices! I've been fortunate to experience many of them with friends, partners and some in group classes. Among my favorites is rubbing the solar plexus or breast bone. I offer this in ...

@breathingstillnessgmail-com I resonated with your share because I moved to Upstate NY when I was ten years old from Kenya. It was isolating and horrifying coming from a multiracial, multiethnic (albe...

@wambuinjugunagmail-com thanks for the thoughtful words. Upstate is a hard culture, lots of despair there. There are islands of culture in college towns and university centers but when scratching past...

@breathingstillnessgmail-com Totally agree David. My mum was a university professor at St.Lawrence University in Canton, NY. So I was in a position of relative privilege being linked with the universi...

@nicole yes I experienced that too, when I would try to do something light or just a different sort of thing afterwards my experience from inside was with me for a while. Actually I had to work on re...

@nicole it is sad and very weird how much of the upstate NY is connected to the prison industry. My grandfather too was a high ranking CO and although quite kind to me was very cruel to his own childr...

This was an interesting little exercises. What came to mind is how simple they are. Both of them offer nice little tools when things start to inwardly escalate. The second one seemed to feel more nat...

@nicole Looking back, I think it was just that...conscious effort to override the lizard brain. I am used to tapping into sensation when I'm feeling uncomfortable so I did just that. I had to ask myse...

@shawn-chereskin That is a perfect way to describe the church mindset. Thank you for sharing!