The new year is a great time to reflect on where we are coming from and where we are going. But instead of hustling into the new year, setting toxic resolutions and unrealistic goals, Octavia Raheem is encouraging us to rest. This podcast conversation features author, mentor and yoga teacher, Octavia Raheem. In her new book, Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change, Octavia offers us a powerful guide to navigating the many changes we are facing with wisdom and...

This final podcast of the year is with my dear friend, Shannon Algeo - author of the book, Trust Your Truth, meditation teacher, therapist who also happens to be my neighbor. In this podcast, we get personal and reflect on our experience of living together and surviving the many pandemics of the last few years and what it looks like to really look out and care for each other through uncertain times. 

In this podcast, we speak with Jacoby Ballard (he/they), a social justice educator, yoga teacher and author of the new book A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation. Jacoby helps us understand and hold the intersections of yoga and capitalism and white supremacy by referencing the heart teachings of yoga that provide a pathway to liberation and collective wellbeing.

This podcast is a whole journey of joy and laughter AND asking really hard questions about who we are and how we heal. Our guest, Vivette Jeffries Logan, is a powerful and seasoned facilitator of race equity work. And she’s a mother, a chef, a mentor and a citizen of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. Together we explore what it means to be curious and critical of how we’ve been shaped by a toxic dominant culture AND how we hold space for our humanness.

We often talk on this podcast about how relationship is fundamental to transformative change work - whether we’re exploring how to work across lines of difference, or how to reach across the political aisle or how to build a culture of care that takes care of everyone. Our next guest offers a path of depth and hope and shows us the importance of radical relationship as we navigate an unjust world and work toward collective wellbeing. Kate Johnson is a buddhist meditation teacher and author of...

Hala Khouri, a brilliant yoga teacher and somatic counselor specializing in trauma joins us this week on CTZN podcast. She just wrote a book called Peace from Anxiety: Get Grounded, Build Resilient, Stay Connected Amidst the Chaos -- which I would imagine is most people’s desire these days. This podcast about trauma and anxiety, but it is also about how we take care of ourselves and one another, how we navigate the chaos of this moment with creativity, and how we practice change in small and...

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. Her new book, Finding Refuge: Heartwork for Healing Collective Grief is a beautiful and necessary invitation for us to tend to the shattered parts of ourselves so that we can embrace our wholeness and do the work of healing the collective heart.

CTZN Podcast is back with a powerful line up of healers and leaders who are revolutionizing recovery. Kicking off the seasons is Tracee Stanley, a veteran yoga and tantra teacher who is devoted to yoga nidra, meditation, self-inquiry, nature as a teacher, and ancestor reverence. Her new book Radiant Rest: Yoga Nidra for Deep Relaxation & Awakened Clarity is medicine for this moment as she challenges us to receive rest so that we can remain awake to our full potential.

This episode is a part of a series hosted by our friends at Faith Matter Network called “How We Get Through: Collective Resilience in a World on Fire”. It features Minister Lauren Cunningham, Francisca Porchas Coronado, Rev Brandon Wrencher and Minister leea allen and offers a really cool behind the scenes perspective by leaders who are innovating and adapting community spaces for healing and grieving and transformation.

This episode features Kazu Haga, Xan West, the organizers from the chilean movement La Coordinadora Feminista 8M and Carinne Luck and explores how movements in and of themselves are healing - how healing has been woven in from building relationships in small teams to exploring how to create containers for rage and healing in the streets and bring in intentional joy.

In the fall of 2020 we found ourselves in the midst of a pivotal election, a global pandemic, economic collapse, escalating action to end the war on Black life and more. Holding so much at once - even the victories - can be straining and overstimulating to our bodies and spirits.   This episode comes from a series hosted by our friends at Faith Matters Network called "How to Get Through: collective resilience in a world on fire". It was designed to prepare social justice movements to weave...

This conversation has been a long time coming for all of us who are navigating both wellness practice and social justice. Because it is not enough to just do the right thing in this moment, we have to go back to the roots to heal and repair what has been broken and violated. And we have with us today a true teacher in that work. Susanna Barkataki is an Indian yoga practitioner, teacher, and now author of the recent book Embrace Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice.

This is another powerful session from the 2020 CTZN Summit on Building a Politics of Care featuring Nelini Stamp from Working Families Party, Rev angel Kyodo williams, author of Radical Dharma, Anasa Troutman of The Big We and Carinne Luck organizer extraordinaire.

This podcast was a part of our 2020 CTZN Summit about how to meet his moment with love and justice and build a politics of care that doesn't leave anyone behind. And this conversation is really special. It features Ruby Sales, a deeply committed grassroots activist, eloquent theologen and veteran of the southern freedom movement, Rev Dr Jacqui Lewis who is a nationally sought after preacher, activist and author and Micky Scottbey Jones, also known as the justice doula and creator of brave space.

This conversation was a part of the 2020 CTZN Summit, a gathering of courageous conversation to explore how to navigate this moment and create a politics of community care. And this conversation with Prentis Hemphill and Francisca Porchas Coronado really challenges us to dig deep and reckon with how we got here and how we can show up for one another.

The 2020 election is fast approaching and the stakes are really high. While voting, of course, isn’t the only tool of participation and intervention, it is an essential part of our democracy. In the wake of the 2016 election, our guest, Jenna Arnold, hosted listening circles around the country to understand why 53% of white women voted for Trump. She wrote a book that captured those learnings called Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoiding Hard Conversations, Start Accepting...

This episode features Micky ScottBey Jones, also known as the Justice Doula. She is an author, speaker, facilitator and the Director of Healing & Resilience Initiatives with the Southern-based collective Faith Matters Network. And one of the gifts she has given the movement is a practice called Brave Space, which is exactly what happens between us on this podcast as we dig into the in-between spaces in our relationships and movements. 

This interview was a part of our inaugural CTZN Live event—a new monthly live broadcast of the podcast that invites YOU the community to join the conversation...and we were so blessed to feature Lama Rod Owens, author of two of our favorite books at CTZN WELL: .the newly released Love & Rage and Radical Dharma, which he co-authored with Rev angel Kyodo williams and Dr. Jasmine Syedullah.

This recording is from a live event featuring Michelle Cassandra Johnson on Juneteenth 2019. Michelle has been a regular on CTZN Podcast - she has been an antiracist trainer for over 20 years, the author of the must read book skill in action and my co-conspirator in the work of Race & Resilience. This conversation isn’t just about Juneteenth and the history of racism in America, it's not just about how white supremacy is at work on our bodies and minds, it's not just about reparations and...

Valarie Kaur is a filmmaker, public speaker, civil rights activist and author of the book See No Stranger - which is an urgent manifesto about revolutionary love to heal ourselves and transform the world around us. This conversation is about how relationship can transform us and what’s possible when we embody a revolutionary love that transcends separation, scarcity and supremacy.

Wellness Beyond Whiteness is one of our favorite conversations we've ever had at CTZNWELL - exploring how we perpetuate a culture of exclusion in wellness spaces, how to move beyond #DiversityAndInclusion, and what’s the cost of whiteness on our wellness.

Many are questioning the role and efficacy of incarceration all together. And one of those advocates is Oneika Mays, the first Mindfulness Coach at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, where she works one-on-one with incarcerated people to help them cope with the stress and trauma of incarceration and foster resilience for re-entry and recovery. 

Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters and host of the new Together Apart Podcast, says in every group there is a beautiful conversation that could actually change people, you just have to find out what that is.

Today we're talking about righteous anger and indignation with writer and activist Soraya Chemaly. Her book Rage Becomes Her explores how women's expressions of anger are vital to their own health, freedom, and wellbeing.