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Reimagining Everything: A Guided Meditation with kelley nicole palmer


"If we are going to move it forward, stop leaning into performative allyship, and really build solidarity and community in an authentic way, we’re gonna have to think about it from a new angle. We’re
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Disruption as a Practice: The Responsibility of Yoga Teachers in Dismantling Systems of Oppression

By kelley nicole palmer

There is this particular part of my way of working as a yoga teacher and coach that is part resistance, part deliberate dismantling, and part releasing the need to follow what...

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Redefining Success: A Dharma Talk on Resource Redistribution with kelley nicole palmer


"The true success is that every person you come in contact with has what they need, and until we reach that, we haven’t really produced anything worthwhile or meaningful."

-kelley nicole palmer



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3 Ways to Practice Sustainable Solidarity

“I want to invite you to start imagining possibilities outside of the 'right' way. Some of us can't imagine beyond what is current, what is normalized. The only way we shift this it to begin to imag

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Turn Your Beliefs Into Actions: Self-Study Prompts from kelley nicole palmer


"Belief initiates and guides action—or it does nothing."
— Octavia E. Butler

 

My belief is in collective action. We are living an intertwined existence with every other being on this planet. Our c...

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Reverent Intention: Resources for Yoga Activists

Yoga and social justice are inextricably connected.

If we hold it to be true that each of us is an interconnected piece of a larger whole, that we are yoked to one another as the Sanskrit word 'yoga'...

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Decolonization Is an Active Praxis of Resistance

by Anjali Rao

Decolonization is a noun, an action, and a movement that is used very often in reference to multiple issues and contexts, from pedagogy in education, to healthcare and wellness, to pare...

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Change is All Around Us

By kelley nicole palmer

 Change is coming—what do we need to imagine as we prepare for it?... How do we practice increasing ease with what it is? Change happens. Change is definitely going to happe...

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Being with Discomfort

“Sometimes when we’re talking about things like racism or systems of oppression, regardless of the identities we may be holding, there’s a resistance to the discomfort these conversations can bring.

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"We have a responsibility to awaken." - Race Equity Reading List from kelley nicole palmer


"I don’t lean into or uphold trying to be the smartest person in the room anymore AND I appreciate the early push to be resourceful, to remain curious, and to always keep learning."

—kelley nicole pa...

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