This is not Tea
Is it tea if we’re just storytelling? Two yoga teachers of color discuss navigating challenging spaces, sometimes including Yogalandia itself.
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The Cookout: Loving-Kindness, Lineage & Liberation (opens the original)
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Tamika and Ashley host a double pod with Oneika Mays and Pamela Stokes Eggleston to talk about the difference between performative wellness and the real work. The four dig into spiritual bypassing, the ”wellness industrial complex,” and why stillness is a radical act for Black and marginalized bodies, while sharing Oneika’s mindfulness work at Rikers Island and Pamela’s poetry practice. It closes with Tamika previewing her forthcoming book and the group dreaming up a BIPOC yoga festival.
Beyond Adapting: a Life of Service with Jivana Heyman (opens the original)
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Tamika and Ashley sit down with Jivana Heyman — yoga teacher, author, and founder of Accessible Yoga — for a conversation that traces his path from AIDS activism with ACT UP in the late 1980s and early '90s to becoming one of the leading voices in accessible, trauma-informed yoga. Jivana opens up about learning yoga from his grandmother, taking initiation under Swami Satchidananda, getting arrested with ACT UP San Francisco, and the moment he walked away from confrontational activism to start te
Devotion, Grief, Connection: Portals to Ritual with Tracee Stanley (opens the original)
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Tracee Stanley — post-lineage teacher, former Hollywood film producer, and bestselling author of Radiant Rest and The Luminous Self — joins Tamika Caston-Miller and Ashley Rideaux to talk about her new book, Living Ritual, grief, devotion and building a connected life.
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