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#blackouttuesday⚫️✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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“For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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We will never get #justiceforgeorgefloyd or anyone else until we/white people are willing to look at our own biases and blind spots. @theconsciouskid has some great resources on their IG page, including this graphic.

While you’re at it, check out @rachel.cargle @ijeomaoluo @cyndiespiegel & @ibramxk

Nobody's free until everybody's free. - Fannie Lou Hamer #BlackLivesMatter

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Some really shitty things have happened over the last couple of months - we’ve lost loved ones and lost work. I’ve been super limited due to my hip injury, woke up more than a handful of days with random anxiety... But more often than not, I’m thriving. We’re cooking more and eating better, walking a couple of miles every day with the pups and exercising again, and I had a great birthday. I launched @BlackRavenCreative and work is coming in. I feel like I have a true work/life balance for the first time ever. I’ve typed this out dozens of times, but always hesitated hitting publish because the truth is, I feel guilty about feeling good during a pandemic when so many others are hurting.

Over the past two months, I’ve prioritized what matters and designed my days without any distractions. I’m afraid of losing that as the world gets going again. I’m afraid of slipping back into the same ways of being as before.

But I also miss my friends. I miss soccer games. I miss going to restaurants. I miss traveling.

As we start to get back to our lives, we get to choose how to spend our time and energy. We get to choose what habits we take with us and what we leave behind. There are no rules. Everything has been shaken up and nothing will ever really be the same.

Whether you feel great, awful, or something in between, I’ve been constantly reminding myself there’s no right or wrong way to feel (@shannonmarylove reminds me when I forget). No one knows what they’re doing. No one knows what the world will look like in a week, a month, or even a year. All we can do is take it one day at a time. You will be okay. I will be okay. We will get to the other side.

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Got some fresh air with a birthday hike 🥳 We went up until we hit snow and our shins started getting tore up from postholing. But fun was had by all nonetheless 🏔

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Feeling lucky that we have so many urban trails and beautiful places to walk near our house 😍

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I've been sharing videos about this in my stories, but thought it was time for an actual post... lots of people are feeling scared, anxious, and overwhelmed right now. As a yoga and meditation teacher, I happen to know a few strategies for reducing stress, so I created a free 5-day meditation program. It's designed for everyone, from complete beginners who have never meditated before to seasoned practitioners who might want a different perspective on their practice.
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The program focuses on the breath, getting you out of your head and into your body, and calming down your entire system. Each day includes a topic and a short meditation, so the videos are only around 15 minutes long (except for the yoga nidra practice on the last day - it's a little longer).
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Click the link in my bio and head over to YouTube to see the videos. If you have any questions or thoughts, drop them in the comments, and I really, genuinely hope it helps 🙏
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We'll make it through this together 💜

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I made another meditation! This one is a practice that I absolutely love. It’s called yoga nidra, which means yogic sleep, and it’s about 30 minutes long.
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It doesn't involve the asanas, or poses, that you typically think of when someone says yoga, but is more of a guided meditation that helps you to relax consciously through a series of specific relaxation techniques.
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Typically, our mind controls our functions and our body, but yoga nidra flips that and uses an awareness of your body to heighten the awareness in your mind. The techniques not only relax your muscles but also your neural pathways, so by focusing on our breath and going into our bodies, we can access a whole different level of awareness.
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This practice was created by Swami Satyananda Saraswati in the 1960s and has been effective in helping with stress, insomnia, addiction, chronic diseases, pain relief, and managing psychosomatic and cardiovascular diseases.
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Check it out on @ceremonyhealing’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/2dUhuV_hrbE 🙏

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With so many people feeling anxious and uncertain, I’ve been trying to think about how I can help. While I hope to record some yoga classes soon, the easiest thing that I could do *right now* is create a meditation, so that’s what I did.
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It’s only 5 minutes long and it will help you connect with your breath, which will calm your system and should also reduce your anxiety. It’s for everyone, whether you’ve never meditated before or you do it everyday.
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Click the link in my bio to get the meditation. It’s free and you don’t have to download anything - just scroll down until you see the play button under Description.
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If you find it helpful, please let me know. If you want more meditations or something around a specific topic, drop a note in the comments 👇 I hope it helps 💜

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