Michelle Johnson : Prāṇāyāma, Breath & Racial Trauma
Michelle Johnson is an author, yoga teacher, social justice activist, intuitive healer and Dismantling Racism trainer. Author of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World and Finding Refuge Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief published by Shambhala Publications, shared about prana, breath and racial trauma. This is a necessary conversation with so much to contemplate….
Aside from the key explorations in this summit, in this conversation, we will explore
- How it is a radical act to breathe and how oppression takes the breath away.
- how the embodied experience of prana may not be accessible to us
- How the antidote to trauma is giving ourselves space to breathe.
- The intersection between the internal and the external, and how pranayama shifts how we show up in the world
- Languaging for breath and pranayama around offering care for racial trauma
- Living in a culture that says "Think. Don't breathe, and don't feel.”
- Guidance to heal through pranayama
.... and much more
2 Lessons