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20/03/2023

spring season seeds🧚🏼‍♀️
[slide 1] black text on white background “Transitioning from knowing better to consistently doing better is a journey in itself”
[slide 2] black text on eggshell background with black floral art “Love sets boundaries. Love tells the truth. Love defends itself. But love does not punish.”
[slide 3] stick figure art of humans puking, pleading, beating, eating, heaving, and mouth covered on white background with black text “me when it’s time to set a healthy and reasonable boundary”
[slide 4] still lake surface at sunset background with circular map of the 4 seasons, elements, emotions, and cycle of life/death and yang/yin
[slide 5] white text on mustard background “ahimsa is not just taking care of yourself. It’s also interrupting harm wherever you find it.”
[slide 6] navy text on light blue background “white supremacy — and all the claims, accusations, excuses, and dodges that surround it — are a (emphasis) trauma response”
[slide 7] black text on white background tweet “heard someone say ‘accidentally spent all my life making sure everyone else around me feels comfortable, only to realize I never felt comfortable the whole time’ and wow I felt that”
[slide 8] white text on cloudy full moon sky background “I will no longer hide in the shadows of discomfort, for fear of disrupting white bodied peace” .in.om
[slide 9] black text on white background with yellow emphasis .patterson quote “gentle reminder: white folks - your main role in the pursuit of racial equity is to notice white supremacy, call it out, and the. Take action to dismantle it.”
[slide 10] art of a swan and dragonfly playing in cattails by with text “the people and water will flow free”

23/09/2022

As fall temperatures cool down, the warmer water of our many northern Minnesota lakes, rivers, and streams creates a mysterious looking morning fog.

This cloud that hugs the ground, makes it difficult to see clearly—the thicker the fog the worse the visibility.

In yoga, 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘢 speaks of the veil that sits between your perception and reality.

The foggy power of illusion that leads you toward unreality.

Most often the mist of 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘢 can be seen in the ways your biases and beliefs influence all that you perceive.

Collectively, there are times this dense fog of illusion has us believing we're better off individually.

After many months of focusing on my own inner healing, I’m once again ready to hold magical, healing virtual space for community.

New Moon Magic this Sunday! For more deets and to register click here https://www.ahamloveyoga.com/moon-magic

We can change our habits.

We can change our minds.

We can change our consumption.

We can change our trajectory.

12/05/2022

09/02/2022

“W𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘣𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘥, 𝘢 𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘷𝘦. May we be the wave of change this world so desperately needs.”

✅ Read the manifesto
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https://www.justinmichaelwilliams.com/thepledge

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22/12/2021

Ups and downs. Twists and turns. Highs and lows.

The cycles of healing spin round and round.

Beginning today—slowly—the darkness of the world around you lessens as the light gradually returns.

In the spirit of this light in the darkness, please pour some of your goodness into the collective cup.

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16/12/2021

So incredibly grateful for indigenous leadership. Prayers up! 🌊🌾🙏🏼

Oral arguments in Case 21-3050 will begin tomorrow, December 16, 2021, by the 8th Circuit Court in St. Paul in a dispute about whether White Earth Nation tribal jurisdiction in northern Minnesota binds the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to fight a novel Rights of Manoomin lawsuit in

14/12/2021

The fight continues to Stop Line 3! On December 14th, one year after the start of direct action to stop construction, we are renewing our calls to the US Army Corps of Engineers to order a federal Environmental Impact Statement. Please look on the above map to find or create a 12/14 action at your n...

08/12/2021

Can you find freedom to do some trudgin’ through the swampland of your soul?

Can you move through the muck of your dark and dismal places?

Can you gain permission to be more courageous and vulnerable—𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧?

Even if you don’t always like what you are summoned to acknowledge?

E𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯.

Because, 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘣 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦.

And if you can keep trudging,

step-by-dark-and-dismal-step,

YOU become enlarged.

More complex.

More conscious.

Let this be your permission to take up more space.
This creation by 🎯

02/12/2021

“I’m no longer trying to get clean. When I see healers prioritizing light over darkness, ascent over descent, purity over 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 and 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺, I want to ask:

When was the last time you consulted the land for advice?

When was the last time you sat in the woods at night without a flashlight?

When was the last time you invited everyone to the table?”

https://www.artpapers.org/i-will-not-be-purified/?fbclid=IwAR0CytmnPMjZsJWui7uXuK5EU4r6E97r6GrGzY7etxO232QZ5vesGbfIMQ0

This project follows author Sophie Strand through her experiences with chronic illness, through fixations on cleaning the body proffered by Western medicine and alternative healers alike, to arrive at radical acceptance of the impure nature of nature, of which our bodies are a part.