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Have you ever skipped your magical practices because you just didn't have enough time? We were taught that in order to access higher consciousness we must work hard. Well, I believe that while this might have true previously, it's not true anymore. As our world speeds up in technology and information, the way we access magic is also speeding up. Instead of waiting weeks for your packages to arrive, now we have next-day shipping. This is similar to activating spiritual gifts and wisdom. You don't have to meditate in a cave up in the mountains for 33 years to unlock your magic. With magical knowledge being awakened and remembered now in the collective, you can heal, manifest, and shift ...
My grandmothers never called it a wellness practice. It was just how to live. They kept positive attitudes, grew veggies and herbs. Sat with sick neighbors and prayed over them. Walked daily and sang and prayed alot. They knew, without any clinical language for it, that the body and the soul were not separate and that healing was never meant to happen alone. One grandmother lived to 92, the other lived to 105 years old. But somewhere between their generation and mine, something was severed. Black women in America entered a healthcare system that was not built to honor us, one that has consistently dismissed our pain, undertreated our symptoms, and left us to navigate chronic illness, ...
Why Set up a Home Yoga Practice?Developing a home yoga practice can be a lifeline. For many people, group yoga classes are not viable for reasons like cost, time, availability of childcare, and transportation. Unfortunately, disabled people are still rarely considered by mainstream studios, and racism and transphobia are as prevalent in the yoga industry as they are in wider society. Even for people who do feel comfortable in group yoga classes, setting up a home practice can bring the tools of yoga to life in a totally new way. If yoga is medicine, then our home practice is how we prescribe our own healing. Yoga can become a transformative part of our everyday lives, rather than ...
The fear of death is not a flaw in the human system; it is part of our design. A healthy awareness of mortality keeps us cautious. It prevents reckless behavior. It encourages us to look both ways before crossing the street and to step back from the edge of cliffs. In that sense, this fear is protective—it helps keep us alive. Most of us carry this awareness quietly. It may surface after the loss of someone we love, during an illness, or in the stillness of the night when life feels especially fragile. These moments can be sobering and uncomfortable, but they usually pass. The fear rises, reminds us that life is precious, and then recedes again. In my years of working as a ...
