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RE: Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3 @breathingstillnessgmail-com It is all so very sad. A true reminder that our current carceral system is not good for anyone involved. |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7 @breathingstillnessgmail-com Wow! Such a long car ride- just one example of your dedication to this work. The facility I serve is less than ten minutes away from my home. I always find myself getting ... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7 @m-denisgmx-fr I appreciate the point you make of being mindful of the way both people react when a microaggression takes place. What caused each person to react the way they did? What is their story? |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9 @joannathurmancomcast-net I appreciate how you are acknowledging our current pandemic and how it impacts the way you feel these exercises in our body. I wonder how it will feel as we slowly go back ... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9 @carriehoffman There is an article on Yoga and Correctional Officers provided in this section. Let me know if you can't access it and I will send you a copy! |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9 @carolinecl The story of your client is heart-breaking. This makes me very curious about the experience of the parole officer and the forensic psychiatrist. What are they holding onto in their own bod... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9 @shawn-chereskin Thank you for sharing your experiences, Shawn. I appreciate the nuance you provide to the situation. You say that it was emotionally charged when your brother was arrested, but also... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 3, Chapter 8-9 @breathingstillnessgmail-com I am glad that you found the article on COs helpful. PYP is very much hoping to have more correctional officer classes when we are able to return inside. We currently offe... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7 @carolinecl I notice you chose the words "caught", "shame", and "flee" to describe the embodied experience of picturing the wedding scenario. This reminds me that our body often detects emotional e... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7 @shawn-chereskin Similar to what I asked David, I am curious to know if there were specific practices you did to help settle your body when you felt your lizard brain activate at times you were the on... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 2, Chapters 4-7 @breathingstillnessgmail-com You mentioned that you sometimes go through the felt experience of being different than others around you, including when you enter a prison. I am curious about what that ... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3 @carolinecl I appreciate you for sharing this perspective! I think this particular description is profound: "The story is intimate and personal, only the occupant inhabiting its own body knows the ful... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3 @joannathurmancomcast-net Wow, thanks so much for elaborating! While different forms of activism are all important at different times, that acknowledgment of what lives inside you and allowing that to... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3 @joannathurmancomcast-net Thank you for sharing about your family! Especially... "It has taken me some time to understand that all of this experience does not make me as woke as I always saw myself, ... |
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3 years ago |
RE: Lesson 1, Chapters 1-3 @carriehoffman @shawn-chereskin I appreciate you both for calling attention to the white savior complex in your Church Communities. I also find it important that Carrie saw this not just in Chruch, bu... |
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3 years ago |