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The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 07: The Werk Podcast Reflections; Every Ending Harkens A New Beginning With Brittany & LauraHello beautiful community, this is our last episode of The Werk Podcast. We want to thank you for supporting our passion project. We've learned so much from the guests we've interviewed and also from you. We are looking forward to integrating everything we've learned to co-create and re-imagine a better future for all. We believe that the dismantling and deconstructing work still needs to be done but we are both in a season of our lives when we want to take some rest, imagine, lean into pleasure, and play. Please keep in touch with us through our personal social media pl...2023-01-1741 min
The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 07: The Werk Podcast Reflections; Every Ending Harkens A New Beginning With Brittany & LauraHello beautiful community, this is our last episode of The Werk Podcast. We want to thank you for supporting our passion project. We've learned so much from the guests we've interviewed and also from you. We are looking forward to integrating everything we've learned to co-create and re-imagine a better future for all. We believe that the dismantling and deconstructing work still needs to be done but we are both in a season of our lives when we want to take some rest, imagine, lean into pleasure, and play. Please keep in touch with us through our personal social media pl...2023-01-1741 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 06: Re-imagining The Future - Returning To Wholeness Together With Kelley Nicole PalmerIn this Episode: Kelley shares her origins story and what led her to do this work in the yoga space. How Kelley is building and co-creating a post-colonial paradigm. Kelley shares how we can acknowledge what is but also have hope and manifest and create a better future. Kelley's reimagining workshop is more about questioning what you value outside of a reality tied to capitalism. Kelley speaks about wholeness and why that's the goal in manifestation. Kelley defines the term Whiteness. Kelley shares about her non-profit The Sanctuary In The City. The importance of prioritizing joy. Full Show Notes: K...2023-01-101h 00The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 06: Re-imagining The Future - Returning To Wholeness Together With Kelley Nicole PalmerIn this Episode: Kelley shares her origins story and what led her to do this work in the yoga space. How Kelley is building and co-creating a post-colonial paradigm. Kelley shares how we can acknowledge what is but also have hope and manifest and create a better future. Kelley's reimagining workshop is more about questioning what you value outside of a reality tied to capitalism. Kelley speaks about wholeness and why that's the goal in manifestation. Kelley defines the term Whiteness. Kelley shares about her non-profit The Sanctuary In The City. The importance of prioritizing joy. Full Show Notes: K...2023-01-101h 00The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 05: Climate Change Work With Intersectional Climate Scientist and Mystic Dr. Chandler PurittyDr. Chandler Puritty is an intersectional climate scientist and mystic. She received her doctorate from UC San Diego in Biology. She now teaches classes on how climate science, environmental science, capitalism, white supremacy, and race issues intersect and all contribute to our climate crisis. Dr. Chandler creates content and teaches on Tik Tok. In This Episode: Dr. Chandler shares her origins story on how she became a scientist and then eventually, a doctor in biology with a concentration in plant community ecology. Dr. Chandler shares how through colonization, the invasive plant species introduced by the settlers were the contributing factor to...2023-01-031h 00The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 05: Climate Change Work With Intersectional Climate Scientist and Mystic Dr. Chandler PurittyDr. Chandler Puritty is an intersectional climate scientist and mystic. She received her doctorate from UC San Diego in Biology. She now teaches classes on how climate science, environmental science, capitalism, white supremacy, and race issues intersect and all contribute to our climate crisis. Dr. Chandler creates content and teaches on Tik Tok. In This Episode: Dr. Chandler shares her origins story on how she became a scientist and then eventually, a doctor in biology with a concentration in plant community ecology. Dr. Chandler shares how through colonization, the invasive plant species introduced by the settlers were the contributing factor to...2023-01-031h 00The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 04: "My Daughters are Rising" - The Healing Power of Storytelling with Anita KopaczAnita Kopacz is the author of the Simon & Schuster fiction novel, Shallow Waters. It is the second title that Charlemagne tha God released on his imprint, Black Privilege Publishing. Anita is the former Editor-in-Chief of Heart & Soul Magazine and Managing Editor of BeautyCents Magazine. She is an award-winning writer, a Spiritual Psychologist, and a certified Tantra coach with a passion to see people thrive. Anita also created the nonprofit, Zero F's Given to raise awareness and help victimized and disenfranchised populations heal from sexual trauma, find their voice, and reclaim their power. She has helped thousands of victims through her...2022-12-2740 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 04: "My Daughters are Rising" - The Healing Power of Storytelling with Anita KopaczAnita Kopacz is the author of the Simon & Schuster fiction novel, Shallow Waters. It is the second title that Charlemagne tha God released on his imprint, Black Privilege Publishing. Anita is the former Editor-in-Chief of Heart & Soul Magazine and Managing Editor of BeautyCents Magazine. She is an award-winning writer, a Spiritual Psychologist, and a certified Tantra coach with a passion to see people thrive. Anita also created the nonprofit, Zero F's Given to raise awareness and help victimized and disenfranchised populations heal from sexual trauma, find their voice, and reclaim their power. She has helped thousands of victims through her...2022-12-2740 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 03: Abolitionism Is Spirit Work With Anthropologist Dr. Nicole Truesdell Dr. Nicole Truesdell is an anthropologist and abolitionist scholar and teacher. Dr. Truesdell’s previous experience includes being an administrator and faculty member at Brown University and Beloit College, working with students who are underserved and underrepresented in higher education. At Brown, she founded the Institute for Transformative Practice, which housed 7 student-focused identity centers, and worked to create collaborative, cooperative, and coalition based programming and research around collective liberation. At Beloit College, she created the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusiveness which housed all programs that worked with underserved and underrepresented students in higher education. Dr. Truesdell obtained her Ph...2022-12-201h 27The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 03: Abolitionism Is Spirit Work With Anthropologist Dr. Nicole Truesdell Dr. Nicole Truesdell is an anthropologist and abolitionist scholar and teacher. Dr. Truesdell’s previous experience includes being an administrator and faculty member at Brown University and Beloit College, working with students who are underserved and underrepresented in higher education. At Brown, she founded the Institute for Transformative Practice, which housed 7 student-focused identity centers, and worked to create collaborative, cooperative, and coalition based programming and research around collective liberation. At Beloit College, she created the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusiveness which housed all programs that worked with underserved and underrepresented students in higher education. Dr. Truesdell obtained her Ph...2022-12-201h 27The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 02: Sacred Medicines as Holistic Framework for Ancestral Healing with Buki FadipeBuki Fadipe is a Nigerian and British certified Professional Psychedelic Medicine Facilitator, Trauma informed 200-hr YTT Hatha Yoga practitioner, Decolonized Educator, Seer & Spiritualist. She is passionate about reclaiming ancient earth/indigenous wisdom practices to act as a basis for Earth centred integrative healing. Using a decolonized lens in her practice, Buki fuses her knowledge of the science of the physiological & neurobiological effects of trauma with indigenous and traditional perspectives on healing with sacred medicines. Her specialisms include but are not limited to the healing of intergenerational & ancestral trauma, Traditional African spirituality, Rites of Passage Rituals and Spiritual Emergence. Buki facilitates...2022-12-131h 19The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 02: Sacred Medicines as Holistic Framework for Ancestral Healing with Buki FadipeBuki Fadipe is a Nigerian and British certified Professional Psychedelic Medicine Facilitator, Trauma informed 200-hr YTT Hatha Yoga practitioner, Decolonized Educator, Seer & Spiritualist. She is passionate about reclaiming ancient earth/indigenous wisdom practices to act as a basis for Earth centred integrative healing. Using a decolonized lens in her practice, Buki fuses her knowledge of the science of the physiological & neurobiological effects of trauma with indigenous and traditional perspectives on healing with sacred medicines. Her specialisms include but are not limited to the healing of intergenerational & ancestral trauma, Traditional African spirituality, Rites of Passage Rituals and Spiritual Emergence. Buki facilitates...2022-12-131h 19The WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 01: Intersectional Environmentalism - Protecting People & The Planet With Leah ThomasLeah Thomas, Founder of Intersectional Environmentalist & Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet Leah Thomas is a celebrated environmentalist based in Santa Barbara, CA. Coining the term ‘eco-communicator’ to describe her style of environmental activism, Leah uses her passion for writing and creativity to explore and advocate for the critical yet often overlooked relationship between social justice and environmentalism. With this intersection in mind, Leah founded and launched Intersectional Environmentalist in 2020, a resource hub and platform that aims to advocate for environmental justice, provide educational resources surrounding intersectional environmentalism, and p...2022-12-0652 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 4 Episode 01: Intersectional Environmentalism - Protecting People & The Planet With Leah ThomasLeah Thomas, Founder of Intersectional Environmentalist & Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet Leah Thomas is a celebrated environmentalist based in Santa Barbara, CA. Coining the term ‘eco-communicator’ to describe her style of environmental activism, Leah uses her passion for writing and creativity to explore and advocate for the critical yet often overlooked relationship between social justice and environmentalism. With this intersection in mind, Leah founded and launched Intersectional Environmentalist in 2020, a resource hub and platform that aims to advocate for environmental justice, provide educational resources surrounding intersectional environmentalism, and p...2022-12-0652 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 06: Access to Plant Medicines and Funghi Are Our Birthrights With Shante LittleShante is a Black & Indigenous psilocybin advocate and educator. She has a background in Eastern Woodlands edible and medicinal plants as well as entheogenic plants and fungi. She combines the two studies to explore the synergistic relationships and effects of herbal medicine. Shante also serves as a DEI consultant who specializes in integrating considerations for BIPOC and working class into entheogenic medicine and psychedelic healing. In This Episode: Shante shares her origins story from being a professional track and field athlete to being an educator and now a psilocybin advocate. Shante speaks about her Abenaki and Creole ancestry and how f...2022-06-141h 14The WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 06: Access to Plant Medicines and Funghi Are Our Birthrights With Shante LittleShante is a Black & Indigenous psilocybin advocate and educator. She has a background in Eastern Woodlands edible and medicinal plants as well as entheogenic plants and fungi. She combines the two studies to explore the synergistic relationships and effects of herbal medicine. Shante also serves as a DEI consultant who specializes in integrating considerations for BIPOC and working class into entheogenic medicine and psychedelic healing. In This Episode: Shante shares her origins story from being a professional track and field athlete to being an educator and now a psilocybin advocate. Shante speaks about her Abenaki and Creole ancestry and how f...2022-06-141h 14The WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 05: Liberation is Our Birthright With Syntyché FrancellaSyntyché Francella is a medicine woman and yoga therapist. Through Dehya Yoga, she offers group yoga therapy classes for BIPOC bodies. A trained diplomat and educator with over two decades in the field, she believes in the healing power of intuition, movement and community. Syntyché is trained in a range of modalities; from kundalini and yin yoga to trauma-informed therapies and practices which empower folks to embody freedom daily. In This Episode: Syntyché shares the significance of the year 1999 and the intuitive hits that led her toward her self-discovery and healing journey. How the pandemic helped her to slow down and lis...2022-05-3157 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 05: Liberation is Our Birthright With Syntyché FrancellaSyntyché Francella is a medicine woman and yoga therapist. Through Dehya Yoga, she offers group yoga therapy classes for BIPOC bodies. A trained diplomat and educator with over two decades in the field, she believes in the healing power of intuition, movement and community. Syntyché is trained in a range of modalities; from kundalini and yin yoga to trauma-informed therapies and practices which empower folks to embody freedom daily. In This Episode: Syntyché shares the significance of the year 1999 and the intuitive hits that led her toward her self-discovery and healing journey. How the pandemic helped her to slow down and lis...2022-05-3157 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 04: Coalition Building For An Equitable Future For All With Ericka JonesEricka Jones is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professional for over 12 years. In her current role, she collaborates with key stakeholders to develop comprehensive strategies that will increase diversity, build and sustain inclusive behaviors to generate equitable outcomes. Founder of the Yoga Coalition, an alliance for combined action bringing inclusion, equity, and diversity to the yoga community. Ericka is a 200-hr yoga teacher and lululemon brand ambassador. Bringing diversity, mindfulness, and inclusion into spaces is her purpose and passion. In This Episode: How co-host Brittany Simone and Ericka met and connected in a moment of discussion about the need for more...2022-05-241h 09The WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 04: Coalition Building For An Equitable Future For All With Ericka JonesEricka Jones is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professional for over 12 years. In her current role, she collaborates with key stakeholders to develop comprehensive strategies that will increase diversity, build and sustain inclusive behaviors to generate equitable outcomes. Founder of the Yoga Coalition, an alliance for combined action bringing inclusion, equity, and diversity to the yoga community. Ericka is a 200-hr yoga teacher and lululemon brand ambassador. Bringing diversity, mindfulness, and inclusion into spaces is her purpose and passion. In This Episode: How co-host Brittany Simone and Ericka met and connected in a moment of discussion about the need for more...2022-05-241h 09The WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 03: Empowered Yoga - Cultivating An Inclusive Community With Felipe GonzalezFelipe Gonzalez came to the practice 14 years ago when he first moved to New York City. After several years of practice, he took a leap of faith and completed his 200 hour teacher training at Laughing Lotus, NYC. His devotion to music, movement, story telling, and spirituality are embedded in all of his classes. Using the techniques of mythology, mantra, yogic philosophy, asana, and Katonah Yoga® theory, he guides practitioners through an experience of breath, vibration, movement, and reflection. Felipe is a 500 hour ERYT and Katonah Yoga® teacher based in Santa Monica, CA. He is a founding teacher at Ganes...2022-05-171h 04The WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 03: Empowered Yoga - Cultivating An Inclusive Community With Felipe GonzalezFelipe Gonzalez came to the practice 14 years ago when he first moved to New York City. After several years of practice, he took a leap of faith and completed his 200 hour teacher training at Laughing Lotus, NYC. His devotion to music, movement, story telling, and spirituality are embedded in all of his classes. Using the techniques of mythology, mantra, yogic philosophy, asana, and Katonah Yoga® theory, he guides practitioners through an experience of breath, vibration, movement, and reflection. Felipe is a 500 hour ERYT and Katonah Yoga® teacher based in Santa Monica, CA. He is a founding teacher at Ganes...2022-05-171h 04The WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 02: How to Create Equity in the Modern Yoga Industry with Jesal Parikh Jesal Parikh (she/they) is an Indian-American yoga teacher, movement educator, podcaster, author and disrupter working on creative solutions for equity in Yoga. She's co-host of the Yoga is Dead podcast and offers movement education through the lens of social justice. Through her work, Jesal aims to uplift those of us who are feeling isolated and marginalized by the yoga industry. Jesal is co-leading the Functional Anatomy course at Prema Yoga Institute this fall- November 1- December 10th. Jesal has co-authored a book for Yoga is Dead called "Original Godmothers of Yoga" that is avai...2022-05-1053 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 02: How to Create Equity in the Modern Yoga Industry with Jesal Parikh Jesal Parikh (she/they) is an Indian-American yoga teacher, movement educator, podcaster, author and disrupter working on creative solutions for equity in Yoga. She's co-host of the Yoga is Dead podcast and offers movement education through the lens of social justice. Through her work, Jesal aims to uplift those of us who are feeling isolated and marginalized by the yoga industry. Jesal is co-leading the Functional Anatomy course at Prema Yoga Institute this fall- November 1- December 10th. Jesal has co-authored a book for Yoga is Dead called "Original Godmothers of Yoga" that is avai...2022-05-1053 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 01: Leading With Love with Zainab SalbiZainab Salbi is a celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist. Oprah Winfrey identified her as one of the 25 women changing the world; People Magazine and Foreign Policy Magazine called Zainab one of “100 Top Global Thinkers”. Zainab is the co-founder for DaughtersforEarth.com, Chief Awareness Officer at FindCenter.com, and host of Redefined podcast. Zainab is also the author of a few books, including the national bestseller Between Two Worlds and her latest Freedom Is an Inside Job. She is also the creator and host of several shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS, and Through Her Eyes with Zain...2022-05-031h 03The WerkTHE WERK Season 3 Episode 01: Leading With Love with Zainab SalbiZainab Salbi is a celebrated humanitarian, author, and journalist. Oprah Winfrey identified her as one of the 25 women changing the world; People Magazine and Foreign Policy Magazine called Zainab one of “100 Top Global Thinkers”. Zainab is the co-founder for DaughtersforEarth.com, Chief Awareness Officer at FindCenter.com, and host of Redefined podcast. Zainab is also the author of a few books, including the national bestseller Between Two Worlds and her latest Freedom Is an Inside Job. She is also the creator and host of several shows, including #MeToo, Now What? on PBS, and Through Her Eyes with Zain...2022-05-031h 03The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 10: USA Pluto Return & Eris - A Cosmic Perspective on Our Collective Shadow Work With Divine HarmonyDivine Harmony is a mother, mystic, astrologer, mythologist, writer and teacher. With her background in Depth Psychology and Spirituality, she works to weave together the Dark and the Light, the mundane and the sacred, the depths and the heights in order to support personal awakening, healing and wholeness. She sees astrology as an amazing alchemical tool for self-understanding and living a more conscious, integrated life. Her work includes teaching at yoga and consciousness festivals, teaching beginner and intermediate astrology classes online, writing extensively and consulting with clients. She has a special interest in the Divine Feminine, the Dark Feminine, Shad...2022-01-251h 03The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 10: USA Pluto Return & Eris - A Cosmic Perspective on Our Collective Shadow Work With Divine HarmonyDivine Harmony is a mother, mystic, astrologer, mythologist, writer and teacher. With her background in Depth Psychology and Spirituality, she works to weave together the Dark and the Light, the mundane and the sacred, the depths and the heights in order to support personal awakening, healing and wholeness. She sees astrology as an amazing alchemical tool for self-understanding and living a more conscious, integrated life. Her work includes teaching at yoga and consciousness festivals, teaching beginner and intermediate astrology classes online, writing extensively and consulting with clients. She has a special interest in the Divine Feminine, the Dark Feminine, Shad...2022-01-251h 03The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 09: Shallow Waters and Yemaya - The Healing Power of Storytelling With Anita KopaczAnita Kopacz is the author of the Simon & Schuster fiction novel, Shallow Waters . It is the second title that Charlemagne tha God released on his imprint, Black Privilege Publishing. Anita is the former Editor-in-Chief of Heart & Soul Magazine and Managing Editor of BeautyCents Magazine . She is an award winning writer, a Spiritual Psychologist and a certified Tantra coach with a passion to see people thrive. Anita also created the nonprofit, Zero F's Given to raise awareness and help victimized and disenfranchised populations heal from sexual trauma, find their voice, and reclaim their power. She has helped thousands of victims throu...2022-01-1853 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 09: Shallow Waters and Yemaya - The Healing Power of Storytelling With Anita KopaczAnita Kopacz is the author of the Simon & Schuster fiction novel, Shallow Waters . It is the second title that Charlemagne tha God released on his imprint, Black Privilege Publishing. Anita is the former Editor-in-Chief of Heart & Soul Magazine and Managing Editor of BeautyCents Magazine . She is an award winning writer, a Spiritual Psychologist and a certified Tantra coach with a passion to see people thrive. Anita also created the nonprofit, Zero F's Given to raise awareness and help victimized and disenfranchised populations heal from sexual trauma, find their voice, and reclaim their power. She has helped thousands of victims throu...2022-01-1853 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 08: The Future is Bright - Collective Liberation Through Anti-Oppression Work With YK Hong YK Hong has been working with organizations around anti-oppression, learning, leadership, and organizational culture shift for over 20 years. Through talks, workshops, writing and coaching, YK works with organizations and companies across the globe to facilitate processes in strategic planning, organization development, and anti-oppression. They also specialize in digital security and machine learning, using algorithms and data to show compelling paths for transformation at all levels of organizational growth. More at ykhong.com. In This Episode: YK talks about their experience as a Korean immigrant moving to the Southern US. How protest culture within Korea and the LA riots shaped their...2022-01-1154 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 08: The Future is Bright - Collective Liberation Through Anti-Oppression Work With YK Hong YK Hong has been working with organizations around anti-oppression, learning, leadership, and organizational culture shift for over 20 years. Through talks, workshops, writing and coaching, YK works with organizations and companies across the globe to facilitate processes in strategic planning, organization development, and anti-oppression. They also specialize in digital security and machine learning, using algorithms and data to show compelling paths for transformation at all levels of organizational growth. More at ykhong.com. In This Episode: YK talks about their experience as a Korean immigrant moving to the Southern US. How protest culture within Korea and the LA riots shaped their...2022-01-1154 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 07: Live Hard and Love Loud - The Beauty of Taking a Stand and Calling Each Other-In with Soeuraya Wilson This episode is supported by The Class a cathartic workout experience that guides you to strengthen the body and notice the mind to restore balance. The listeners of The Werk Podcast are welcome to try The Class for ONE MONTH FREE. Click the link in the show notes. Soeuraya Wilson is a teacher of The Class. She also lends her experience to The Class's teacher training and their in-house podcast. Soeuraya’s class is described as a returning to the self. You will move through resistance, create contraction, and feel the release in expression as you engage in...2022-01-0456 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 07: Live Hard and Love Loud - The Beauty of Taking a Stand and Calling Each Other-In with Soeuraya Wilson This episode is supported by The Class a cathartic workout experience that guides you to strengthen the body and notice the mind to restore balance. The listeners of The Werk Podcast are welcome to try The Class for ONE MONTH FREE. Click the link in the show notes. Soeuraya Wilson is a teacher of The Class. She also lends her experience to The Class's teacher training and their in-house podcast. Soeuraya’s class is described as a returning to the self. You will move through resistance, create contraction, and feel the release in expression as you engage in...2022-01-0456 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 06: Decoding The Science of Social Justice with Ayesha Khan, Ph.D Ayesha Khan, Ph.D., (she/ they) is a neurodivergent Infectious Diseases Scientist, Germ doctor, grassroots organizer, writer, educator and abolitionist decoding the science of social justice, collectivism, neurodiversity & trauma. Dr. Khan is building the foundations of a novel field of study- Abolitionist Science, to use evidence-based science to drive anti-capitalist grassroots movement strategy and shape daily praxis (i.e. the application of revolutionary political theory in our daily life and relationships). A glimpse of her art activism is on instagram @wokescientist Ayesha also studies the impact of capitalism and systemic intergenerational oppression on ecological and community health outcomes. As an e...2021-12-211h 11The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 06: Decoding The Science of Social Justice with Ayesha Khan, Ph.D Ayesha Khan, Ph.D., (she/ they) is a neurodivergent Infectious Diseases Scientist, Germ doctor, grassroots organizer, writer, educator and abolitionist decoding the science of social justice, collectivism, neurodiversity & trauma. Dr. Khan is building the foundations of a novel field of study- Abolitionist Science, to use evidence-based science to drive anti-capitalist grassroots movement strategy and shape daily praxis (i.e. the application of revolutionary political theory in our daily life and relationships). A glimpse of her art activism is on instagram @wokescientist Ayesha also studies the impact of capitalism and systemic intergenerational oppression on ecological and community health outcomes. As an e...2021-12-211h 11The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 05: Healing Racism Through Spiritual Transformation and Race Literacy With Milagros PhillipsMilagros Phillips is a keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, four times author, and certified coach. She designs strategic learning programs for organizations seeking to enhance their Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives through race literacy. Her programs use history, science, research, and storytelling to create compelling, life-transforming experiences. For more than 35 years Milagros has consulted, designed, and facilitated programs across many industries. She is an artist, a Reiki Master and Teacher, a Sound Therapist, Teacher of A Course in Miracles, and the creator of Race Demystified, a compassionate approach to healing from racial conditioning. Her latest book, CRACKING THE HEALER'S CODE - A P...2021-12-141h 04The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 05: Healing Racism Through Spiritual Transformation and Race Literacy With Milagros PhillipsMilagros Phillips is a keynote speaker, TEDx presenter, four times author, and certified coach. She designs strategic learning programs for organizations seeking to enhance their Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives through race literacy. Her programs use history, science, research, and storytelling to create compelling, life-transforming experiences. For more than 35 years Milagros has consulted, designed, and facilitated programs across many industries. She is an artist, a Reiki Master and Teacher, a Sound Therapist, Teacher of A Course in Miracles, and the creator of Race Demystified, a compassionate approach to healing from racial conditioning. Her latest book, CRACKING THE HEALER'S CODE - A P...2021-12-141h 04The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 04: The Life Of The Land Is Perpetuated In Righteousness With Lily DiamondLily Diamond is a writer, educator, and advocate harnessing the power of storytelling to democratize wellness and empower women through accessible practices for inner and outer nourishment, and revolutionary acts of self-care for our earth and human communities. She is co-creator of What’s Your Story? alongside bestselling author and lifelong activist Rebecca Walker. Together they co-authored What’s Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution. Lily is also creator of internationally beloved blog Kale & Caramel and author of bestselling memoir-cookbook Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body, Heart, and Table, celebrated as one of the top cookbooks of 2017 by the New York Time...2021-12-071h 05The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 04: The Life Of The Land Is Perpetuated In Righteousness With Lily DiamondLily Diamond is a writer, educator, and advocate harnessing the power of storytelling to democratize wellness and empower women through accessible practices for inner and outer nourishment, and revolutionary acts of self-care for our earth and human communities. She is co-creator of What’s Your Story? alongside bestselling author and lifelong activist Rebecca Walker. Together they co-authored What’s Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution. Lily is also creator of internationally beloved blog Kale & Caramel and author of bestselling memoir-cookbook Kale & Caramel: Recipes for Body, Heart, and Table, celebrated as one of the top cookbooks of 2017 by the New York Time...2021-12-071h 05The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 03: Black Joy As A Form of Activism and Resistance With Troy BrooksTroy is a Husband, father, respected wellness professional, entrepreneur, and content creator named “best instructor in NYC 2019” Via class pass. Troy combines mindset, movement, and behavior change strategies focusing on a three-dimensional approach to wellness. He has coached high-profile clients and elite athletes. Now he focuses on content creation and wellness consulting, establishing partnerships with some of the biggest brands in the world. In This Episode: Troy shares his origin story and how being raised by strong Black women groomed him to be who is today. Troy discusses his wellness and spiritual roots and how he uses his platform to uplif...2021-11-301h 02The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 03: Black Joy As A Form of Activism and Resistance With Troy BrooksTroy is a Husband, father, respected wellness professional, entrepreneur, and content creator named “best instructor in NYC 2019” Via class pass. Troy combines mindset, movement, and behavior change strategies focusing on a three-dimensional approach to wellness. He has coached high-profile clients and elite athletes. Now he focuses on content creation and wellness consulting, establishing partnerships with some of the biggest brands in the world. In This Episode: Troy shares his origin story and how being raised by strong Black women groomed him to be who is today. Troy discusses his wellness and spiritual roots and how he uses his platform to uplif...2021-11-301h 02The WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 02: Dear Good White People With Dra Rocio Rosales MezaDra. Rocío Rosales Meza, is a Xicana/Mexicana Indigenous women in diaspora. She is a Seer, initiated medicine woman, on the ñusta paqo path in the Q’ero Inca lineage, & is a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. She is also an unschooling mama to a 5 year old child who also holds supernatural gifts. Dra. Rocio’s path is that of a medicine woman, she is not a Licensed Psychologist, as she is not aligned with the colonial Eurocentric field of today. She honors the traditional path, her ancestral medicine. She comes from a long line of healers on both her matern...2021-11-2542 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 02: Dear Good White People With Dra Rocio Rosales MezaDra. Rocío Rosales Meza, is a Xicana/Mexicana Indigenous women in diaspora. She is a Seer, initiated medicine woman, on the ñusta paqo path in the Q’ero Inca lineage, & is a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. She is also an unschooling mama to a 5 year old child who also holds supernatural gifts. Dra. Rocio’s path is that of a medicine woman, she is not a Licensed Psychologist, as she is not aligned with the colonial Eurocentric field of today. She honors the traditional path, her ancestral medicine. She comes from a long line of healers on both her matern...2021-11-2542 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 01: Decolonial Shadow Work - A Conversation With Medicine Woman and Seer Dra. Rocío Rosales Meza Dra. Rocío Rosales Meza, is a Xicana/Mexicana Indigenous women in diaspora. She is a Seer, initiated medicine woman, on the ñusta paqo path in the Q’ero Inca lineage, & is a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. She is also an unschooling mama to a 5 year old child who also holds supernatural gifts. Dra. Rocio’s path is that of a medicine woman, she is not a Licensed Psychologist, as she is not aligned with the colonial Eurocentric field of today. She honors the traditional path, her ancestral medicine. She comes from a long line of healers on both her matern...2021-11-2356 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 2 Episode 01: Decolonial Shadow Work - A Conversation With Medicine Woman and Seer Dra. Rocío Rosales Meza Dra. Rocío Rosales Meza, is a Xicana/Mexicana Indigenous women in diaspora. She is a Seer, initiated medicine woman, on the ñusta paqo path in the Q’ero Inca lineage, & is a Counseling Psychology Ph.D. She is also an unschooling mama to a 5 year old child who also holds supernatural gifts. Dra. Rocio’s path is that of a medicine woman, she is not a Licensed Psychologist, as she is not aligned with the colonial Eurocentric field of today. She honors the traditional path, her ancestral medicine. She comes from a long line of healers on both her matern...2021-11-2356 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 06: Continuing The Werk - Acknowledging What is In Order to Create What Can Be With Brittany Simone and Laura ChungIn This Episode: How Brittany and Laura met. Brittany and Laura's intention for starting The Werk Podcast. Our experiences in the wellness and spiritual industries and why speaking out against microaggressions, appropriation, and other harmful practices is a part of the work. The work that white people and BIPOC have to do in order to heal and evolve. How American history glosses over the contributions of BIPOC and important moments in history. The different types of privilege we all experience and why conversations regarding power and privilege need to include intersectionality. Fetishization and mysognoir that B...2021-11-2156 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 06: Continuing The Werk - Acknowledging What is In Order to Create What Can Be With Brittany Simone and Laura ChungIn This Episode: How Brittany and Laura met. Brittany and Laura's intention for starting The Werk Podcast. Our experiences in the wellness and spiritual industries and why speaking out against microaggressions, appropriation, and other harmful practices is a part of the work. The work that white people and BIPOC have to do in order to heal and evolve. How American history glosses over the contributions of BIPOC and important moments in history. The different types of privilege we all experience and why conversations regarding power and privilege need to include intersectionality. Fetishization and mysognoir that B...2021-11-2156 minThe WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 05: Spiritual Activism - Your Spiritual Practice As A Pathway To Create Social Change and Liberation With Michelle JohnsonMichelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle’s work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the...2021-11-211h 06The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 05: Spiritual Activism - Your Spiritual Practice As A Pathway To Create Social Change and Liberation With Michelle JohnsonMichelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle’s work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the...2021-11-211h 06The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 04: The New Earth Is Not The New Age - Reclaiming The Indigenous Prophecies With Marilu ShinnMarilu Shinn has held a private practice as a Shamanic Practitioner since 2012 Her formal training includes the Four Winds Society as well as an ongoing apprenticeship with the Nusta Medicine Women of Peru. Her own healing journey and reclamation of her Ancestral Wisdom brought her to embody the Ancient Wisdom Traditions of Peru and to share the Medicine and Beauty of this Lineage as a path towards Empowerment and Embodied living. Her mission and passion are to reconnect Women with their Authentic Selves; to awaken their somatic awareness through Shamanistic practices and to reconnect them with their innate...2021-11-211h 16The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 04: The New Earth Is Not The New Age - Reclaiming The Indigenous Prophecies With Marilu ShinnMarilu Shinn has held a private practice as a Shamanic Practitioner since 2012 Her formal training includes the Four Winds Society as well as an ongoing apprenticeship with the Nusta Medicine Women of Peru. Her own healing journey and reclamation of her Ancestral Wisdom brought her to embody the Ancient Wisdom Traditions of Peru and to share the Medicine and Beauty of this Lineage as a path towards Empowerment and Embodied living. Her mission and passion are to reconnect Women with their Authentic Selves; to awaken their somatic awareness through Shamanistic practices and to reconnect them with their innate...2021-11-211h 16The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 03: Creating Safe and Trauma Informed Spaces With Cassandra LamAs CEO and Co-Founder of The Cosmos, she creates experiences and content to help Asian women care for themselves, their community, and their world. Their work at the intersection of AAPI identity, somatic healing, and women’s empowerment has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Bustle, Paper Mag, and more. Cassandra’s teachings are informed by 9 years of practice in the healing arts, 300+ hours of training, and a lifelong commitment to social justice and decolonization. She has completed trainings in yoga, trauma-informed mindfulness, reiki, and activism movement trauma healing. In March 2021, Cassandra crea...2021-11-211h 15The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 03: Creating Safe and Trauma Informed Spaces With Cassandra LamAs CEO and Co-Founder of The Cosmos, she creates experiences and content to help Asian women care for themselves, their community, and their world. Their work at the intersection of AAPI identity, somatic healing, and women’s empowerment has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Bustle, Paper Mag, and more. Cassandra’s teachings are informed by 9 years of practice in the healing arts, 300+ hours of training, and a lifelong commitment to social justice and decolonization. She has completed trainings in yoga, trauma-informed mindfulness, reiki, and activism movement trauma healing. In March 2021, Cassandra crea...2021-11-211h 15The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 02: In Process - Deprogramming White Supremacy With Sara ClarkSara Clark began teaching yoga 11 years ago in New York City after leaving the world of television post production. She has had the honor of leading workshops and retreats globally, teaming up with top fitness brands and gracing covers of wellness magazines all while sharing tools to support healing the mind and the body. Sara views vinyasa yoga as a moving meditation, an act of resistance against the system and a salve for the soul. Her teachings weave together the practices of meditation, mindfulness and manifestation to support uplifting the spirit and awakening to one's limitless potential. I...2021-11-211h 17The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 02: In Process - Deprogramming White Supremacy With Sara ClarkSara Clark began teaching yoga 11 years ago in New York City after leaving the world of television post production. She has had the honor of leading workshops and retreats globally, teaming up with top fitness brands and gracing covers of wellness magazines all while sharing tools to support healing the mind and the body. Sara views vinyasa yoga as a moving meditation, an act of resistance against the system and a salve for the soul. Her teachings weave together the practices of meditation, mindfulness and manifestation to support uplifting the spirit and awakening to one's limitless potential. I...2021-11-211h 17The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 01: The Spirit of Supremacy - Breaking Down Toxic Paradigms With Amanda MichelleAmanda Michelle is a Spiritual and Holistic Wellness Practitioner currently based in Palm Springs, California. As a direct descendent of the Guarani people in Paraguay, Amanda has spent the majority of her life working with several Indigenous modalities including dream weaving, plant medicine and Indigenous Cosmology. As a transracial adoptee in the early 90's, it was a long and sometimes difficult process in understanding her Ancestral roots which ultimately created a deeper appreciation and connection to the Spirit realms. In 2015, Amanda created Activated Living and is focused on sharing her work in several formats (writing, visual, and audio) to...2021-11-211h 05The WerkTHE WERK Season 1 Episode 01: The Spirit of Supremacy - Breaking Down Toxic Paradigms With Amanda MichelleAmanda Michelle is a Spiritual and Holistic Wellness Practitioner currently based in Palm Springs, California. As a direct descendent of the Guarani people in Paraguay, Amanda has spent the majority of her life working with several Indigenous modalities including dream weaving, plant medicine and Indigenous Cosmology. As a transracial adoptee in the early 90's, it was a long and sometimes difficult process in understanding her Ancestral roots which ultimately created a deeper appreciation and connection to the Spirit realms. In 2015, Amanda created Activated Living and is focused on sharing her work in several formats (writing, visual, and audio) to...2021-11-211h 05The WerkTHE WERK TrailerWe are the duo behind our passion project, The Werk, a podcast and web series to inspire people to do the necessary work. As women of color in the spiritual and wellness spaces, we aim to create a safe space to learn and unlearn. In the first season, there will be 6 episodes airing every Tuesday starting September 7, 2021. Intention: Decolonizing spirituality and wellness for a more equitable future. In each episode, we will share wisdom, education, and storytelling to raise awareness of the harm placed on indigenous and people of color. With this awareness, we are better equipped t...2021-11-2118 minThe WerkTHE WERK TrailerWe are the duo behind our passion project, The Werk, a podcast and web series to inspire people to do the necessary work. As women of color in the spiritual and wellness spaces, we aim to create a safe space to learn and unlearn. In the first season, there will be 6 episodes airing every Tuesday starting September 7, 2021. Intention: Decolonizing spirituality and wellness for a more equitable future. In each episode, we will share wisdom, education, and storytelling to raise awareness of the harm placed on indigenous and people of color. With this awareness, we are better equipped t...2021-11-2118 min
Awaken and AlignTHE WERK Episode 06: Continuing The Werk - Acknowledging What is In Order to Create What Can Be With Brittany Simone and Laura ChungIn This Episode: How Brittany and Laura met. Brittany and Laura's intention for starting The Werk Podcast. Our experiences in the wellness and spiritual industries and why speaking out against microaggressions, appropriation, and other harmful practices is a part of the work. the work that white people and BIPOC have to do in order to heal and evolve How American history glosses over the contributions of BIPOC and important moments in history. The different types of privilege we all experience and why conversations regarding power and privilege need to include intersectionality. Fetishization and mysognoir that BIPOC women experience. The work...2021-10-1257 minAwaken and AlignTHE WERK Episode 05: Spiritual Activism - Your Spiritual Practice As A Pathway To Create Social Change and Liberation With Michelle JohnsonMichelle Cassandra Johnson is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, and yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has a background and two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle’s work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of William and Mary and a Masters degree in Social Work from the University of...2021-10-051h 06Awaken and AlignTHE WERK Episode 04: The New Earth Is Not The New Age - Reclaiming The Indigenous PropheciesMarilu Shinn has held a private practice as a Shamanic Practitioner since 2012 Her formal training includes the Four Winds Society as well as an ongoing apprenticeship with the Nusta Medicine Women of Peru. Her own healing journey and reclamation of her Ancestral Wisdom brought her to embody the Ancient Wisdom Traditions of Peru and to share the Medicine and Beauty of this Lineage as a path towards Empowerment and Embodied living. Her mission and passion are to reconnect Women with their Authentic Selves; to awaken their somatic awareness through Shamanistic practices and to reconnect them with their innate...2021-09-281h 16Awaken and AlignTHE WERK Episode 03: Creating Safe and Trauma Informed Spaces With Cassandra LamAs CEO and Co-Founder of The Cosmos, she creates experiences and content to help Asian women care for themselves, their community, and their world. Their work at the intersection of AAPI identity, somatic healing, and women’s empowerment has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Bustle, Paper Mag, and more. Cassandra’s teachings are informed by 9 years of practice in the healing arts, 300+ hours of training, and a lifelong commitment to social justice and decolonization. She has completed trainings in yoga, trauma-informed mindfulness, reiki, and activism movement trauma healing. In March 2021, Cassandra crea...2021-09-211h 16Awaken and AlignTHE WERK Episode 02: In Process - Deprogramming White Supremacy With Sara ClarkSara Clark began teaching yoga 11 years ago in New York City after leaving the world of television post production. She has had the honor of leading workshops and retreats globally, teaming up with top fitness brands and gracing covers of wellness magazines all while sharing tools to support healing the mind and the body. Sara views vinyasa yoga as a moving meditation, an act of resistance against the system and a salve for the soul. Her teachings weave together the practices of meditation, mindfulness and manifestation to support uplifting the spirit and awakening to one's limitless potential. ...2021-09-141h 17Awaken and AlignTHE WERK Episode 01: The Spirit of Supremacy - Breaking Down Toxic Paradigms With Amanda MichelleAmanda Michelle is a Spiritual and Holistic Wellness Practitioner currently based in Palm Springs, California. As a direct descendent of the Guarani people in Paraguay, Amanda has spent the majority of her life working with several Indigenous modalities including dream weaving, plant medicine and Indigenous Cosmology. As a transracial adoptee in the early 90's, it was a long and sometimes difficult process in understanding her Ancestral roots which ultimately created a deeper appreciation and connection to the Spirit realms. In 2015, Amanda created Activated Living and is focused on sharing her work in several formats (writing, visual, and audio) to he...2021-09-071h 06Awaken and AlignThe Werk TrailerWe are the duo behind our passion project, The Werk, a podcast and web series to inspire people to do the necessary work. As women of color in the spiritual and wellness spaces, we aim to create a safe space to learn and unlearn. In the first season, there will be 6 episodes airing every Tuesday starting September 7, 2021. Intention: Decolonizing spirituality and wellness for a more equitable future. In each episode, we will share wisdom, education, and storytelling to raise awareness of the harm placed on indigenous and people of color. With this awareness, we are better equipped to incite chang...2021-09-0118 min
Awaken and AlignEpisode 101: Be The Leader You Needed Growing Up With Brittany SimoneBrittany Simone Anderson is a New York based sound practitioner, ceremonialist, and movement guide. Brittany believes that well-being is our birth right, and as such, it is our responsibility to take an active role in our own wellness. Brittany combines a variety of practices that include sound, breathwork, coaching, yoga, and mindful eating. Brittany works one on one or in groups to empower people to take their health in their own hands. Together we can reconnect the mind/body/soul. In This Episode We Talk About: The course of events that led her to her wellness and spiritual journeys. She ta...2020-10-141h 42