Erin Anderson’s life has been one of learning, education, and service “at best.” She grew up in Montana and attended UMass Amherst studying sociology and history with a concentration on the Black Arts Movement. Her Masters degree is in Intercultural Youth and Family Development, which was housed in the counselor education program at the University of Montana - Missoula.
Her life's work is centered on the importance of collective healing & personal growth through loving action. Equity, inclusion, diversity, culture, and yoga are her main tools for personal healing and social change. She has worked in service throughout her professional life from the food & restaurant industry, to residential youth homes, and nonprofit program management & design.
She believes community happens through creation & growth of authentic relationships and in addressing both triumph and trauma within our own bodies. By doing this we learn to accept what we can not change and engage in meaningful release of what is not in service to empowerment and betterment of all of humankind.
In this conversation, Erin discusses vulnerability and its crossover with pleasure and with shame. She also shares how shame appears in the mind and body and where she sees a schism in yoga.
