Welcome to the Liberating Yoga Podcast. My guest today is Leah Saliter (she/her). Leah is a Death Doula, Digital Creator, Yoga enthusiast, and certified Yoga-Asana instructor who teaches Yoga as a source of healing for Black and Brown, abundant bodies.
She is the founder of Unity in Healing, an organization that creates safe spaces where folks can experience the power of healing in community through movement practice, tarot, divination work, and ancestral practices. Leah's mission is to create accessible healing communities that support the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual exploration of self.
Find Leah
https://www.instagram.com/leahlaughed
00:00 - Intro
01:17 - Meeting Leah Saliter
02:52 - What Yoga Means to Leah
04:02 - The Importance of Safety in Community
07:46 - Profit-Driven Wellness Spaces vs. Authentic Healing
10:04 - Reducing Yoga to Fitness
13:27 - Discovering Yoga as a Path to Survival and Peace
17:03 - Teaching Tools and Encouragement for Students
20:02 - Reconnecting to Accessibility in Yoga
24:05 - Teaching Restorative Yoga Amid Studio Resistance
29:00 - Letting Go of Capitalist Measures of Success in Yoga
33:00 - Body Acceptance and Embracing What Is
37:42 - The Violence of Beauty Standards
40:54 - Practising Ahimsa (Nonviolence) with Ourselves
43:04 - Speaking Kindly to Ourselves
47:04 - More Ways Fatphobia Shows Up in Yoga
49:01 - Disordered Eating "Perfect" Bodies
52:30 - Yoga as Stillness, Listening, and Deep Work
56:01 - The Challenge and Rewards of the Inner Work
01:02:51 - What Led Leah to Reach Out
01:08:56 - Working Together in Community, Not Hierarchy
01:10:49 - How to Connect with Leah and Unity & Healing
01:12:29 - Outro
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Thank you for watching this video and checking out the channel. My practice is rooted in my spiritual background of Sikhism and Buddhism and ancestral roots in Panjab, India - this informs my desire to teach yoga authentically as a spiritual practice. To learn more, please find all of our resources below.
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