CTZN Kerri Kelly

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 the book Radical Friendship which makes a case for friendship as a radical practice of love, courage and trust, and a path that paves the way for profound social change.

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 big ways. 

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.