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10 Days to Activate Revolutionary Love
January 22–31, 2021
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Breathe
Teaching and practice with Valarie Kaur
Today’s teaching and guided inquiry are centered around the practice of breathing as a life-giving act, and on the importance of shifting from self-care to community care to sustain us in the labor of love.
Home Practice
1. Write the words “Breathe” and “Push.” Before every push in your day, ask yourself, “How am I breathing?” What is your breathing ritual?
2. In your wisdom journal or in your mind, think of today as an entire lifetime. What was the most joyful part of this lifetime? What was the hardest part? Am I ready to let go of this lifetime?
If you can’t breathe right now due to resources or institutions that make it impossible, who can you bring in to help you conspire to change the rules so that you can breathe?
Interview and live Q&A
with adrienne maree brown and Seane Corn: “Breathe”
Breathing creates space in our lives to think and see differently, enliven our imagination, awaken to pleasure, and let joy in. It sustains us—and each other—in our shared labor. As the midwife tells us, before we can push, we must breathe. But how do we practice this act of love for ourselves when the labor ahead makes us feel breathless? Join pleasure activist adrienne maree brown and internationally celebrated yoga teacher Seane Corn to discover why we don’t have to make ourselves suffer in order to serve.
Moderated by: Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD
Session Highlights:
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Discovering our ancestors’ ancient rituals for breathing in community
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Noticing beauty in the world
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Taking time in your day to slow down and focus on your breath
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How breathing nourishes our capacity to wonder, grieve, fight, rage, listen, and reimagine
adrienne maree brown
adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; and Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; and the coeditor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She is the cohost of two podcasts: How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.
Seane Corn
Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher known for her impassioned activism, unique self-expression, and inspirational style of teaching. Featured in commercials, magazines, NPR, and Oprah.com, Seane now utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to global humanitarian issues. In 2005, she was named National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS, and in 2013 was given the Global Green International Environmental Leadership Award. Since 2007, she has been training leaders of activism through her cofounded organization Off the Mat, Into the World®. Seane has spent time in the US, India, Cambodia, Haiti, and Africa working with communities in need—teaching yoga, providing support for child labor, and educating people about HIV/AIDS prevention. Seane is also cofounder of the Seva Challenge Humanitarian Tours, which have raised almost $4 million since 2007, getting the yoga community involved in fund- and awareness-raising efforts across the globe.
Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD (Moderator)
Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD, is the director of education at the Revolutionary Love Project and a full-time faculty member in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Canlas’s research and teaching focus on issues of educational equity and human rights. As a lifelong educator, Dr. Canlas believes that education should be directed toward learning to love and care for one another as we build systems where every person can live in wellness and dignity.
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What a beautiful storyteller you are Valarie! And yes, our children are our most amazing teachers! I do sometimes wonder … where are they from….
Help! I saw and heard sessions 1,2,3 and 4 but can’t connect to 5&6. I am enjoying every minute and made a donation to sounds true in appreciation. Kathy
Transforming
During the Imagining LAST NIGHT, I realized you have all these practitioners to call and talk to when discouraged. How do you suggest we develop a similar network?
Is the music that you start the interviews with available? Where?