12. Akilah S. Richards on Unschooling as a Spiritual Practice
08/25/20 • 55 min
Since 2016, Akilah S. Richards has hosted Fare of the Free Child, a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting, particularly among BIPOC communities.
Parents, educators, unschoolers and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness.
Discussions center emotional wellness, learning and children, parenting, self-care, and self-love. The voice and work of this Jamaican-born, digital nomad have been featured on NPR, Forbes, NBC TV, Good Morning America’s blog, and in several literary and in-person spaces throughout the U.S., Jamaica, and South Africa.
During this conversation, Akilah shares her wisdom on:
- What it means to raise free people + be free adults.
- The indigenous, decolonized, legacy of unschooling.
- Unschooling as a spiritual practice.
- How unschooling helps children feel confident + capable their ENTIRE lives.
- The differences between unschooling, home schooling and letting your children run WILD!
Connect with Akilah online:
- Raising Free People — Raising Free People
- @FareOftheFreeChild [Instagram]
Work with Me:
- Sacred No, Divine Yes — My (free) abundance activation for living in ease and authenticity.
- Sacred Success Oracle Reading — A 45-minute session to align with your path to abundance, power, and prosperity.
- Goddess Frequency Mystery School — Join the revolutionary mystery school for effortless wealth, ease, and freedom.
- Quantum Legacy Private Mentorship — A six-month 1:1 experience for visionary leaders ready to leap into their calling.
- In-person Retreats + Intensives — Embody your divine potential in bespoke luxury retreats.
Stay Connected:
- Follow me on Instagram @theblackgirlmystic
- Visit blackgirlmystic.com for updates on in-person retreats, mentorship, and community offerings.
Since 2016, Akilah S. Richards has hosted Fare of the Free Child, a lifestyle and parenting podcast about the connection between liberation, learning, and parenting, particularly among BIPOC communities.
Parents, educators, unschoolers and entrepreneurs tune in weekly to connect about unschooling, deschooling, conscious parenting, and self-directedness.
Discussions center emotional wellness, learning and children, parenting, self-care, and self-love. The voice and work of this Jamaican-born, digital nomad have been featured on NPR, Forbes, NBC TV, Good Morning America’s blog, and in several literary and in-person spaces throughout the U.S., Jamaica, and South Africa.
During this conversation, Akilah shares her wisdom on:
- What it means to raise free people + be free adults.
- The indigenous, decolonized, legacy of unschooling.
- Unschooling as a spiritual practice.
- How unschooling helps children feel confident + capable their ENTIRE lives.
- The differences between unschooling, home schooling and letting your children run WILD!
Connect with Akilah online:
- Raising Free People — Raising Free People
- @FareOftheFreeChild [Instagram]
Work with Me:
- Sacred No, Divine Yes — My (free) abundance activation for living in ease and authenticity.
- Sacred Success Oracle Reading — A 45-minute session to align with your path to abundance, power, and prosperity.
- Goddess Frequency Mystery School — Join the revolutionary mystery school for effortless wealth, ease, and freedom.
- Quantum Legacy Private Mentorship — A six-month 1:1 experience for visionary leaders ready to leap into their calling.
- In-person Retreats + Intensives — Embody your divine potential in bespoke luxury retreats.
Stay Connected:
- Follow me on Instagram @theblackgirlmystic
- Visit blackgirlmystic.com for updates on in-person retreats, mentorship, and community offerings.
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11. How Goddess Briq House Left Church and Found God
Professional dominant, intuitive, and burlesque Goddess Briq House is the founder and owner of Briq House Entertainment.
Under this umbrella she produces All People of Color Burlesque Revues, Sexual Healing through Movement and Body Love workshops, spiritual gatherings, kink based anti racism trainings, and kink events exclusively for People of Color throughout the US and abroad.
Her monthly production (co produced with Sin de la Rosa) The Sunday Night Shuga Shaq is the longest running monthly all POC Burlesque Revue in the PNW.
As a proud Black Woman with a background in education, sacred intimate arts, entertainment, and LGBTQIA and Sex Workers rights advocacy; her Royal Thickness holds a deep understanding of intersectional identities. Briq’s mission is to harness the power of her bright light to stimulate and educate the masses to work towards a mutual goal of liberation.
During this conversation Ms. Briq House shares her wisdom on:
- How to use touch so that it nourishes + nurtures you in COVID.
- Creating POC burlesque performance space as healing + liberatory space.
- Practicing kink + BDSM for POC as ancestral magic.
- Polyamory as a form of liberatory loving.
- Her spiritual reclamation journey from abusive church trauma to true spiritual liberation.
- SO MUCH more!
Connect with Briq House online:
- www.msbriqhouse.com
- @Ms.briqhouse on all social media platforms
- Only Fans — https://onlyfans.com/briqhouse
Work with Me:
- Sacred No, Divine Yes — My (free) abundance activation for living in ease and authenticity.
- Sacred Success Oracle Reading — A 45-minute session to align with your path to abundance, power, and prosperity.
- Goddess Frequency Mystery School — Join the revolutionary mystery school for effortless wealth, ease, and freedom.
- Quantum Legacy Private Mentorship — A six-month 1:1 experience for visionary leaders ready to leap into their calling.
- In-person Retreats + Intensives — Embody your divine potential in bespoke luxury retreats.
Stay Connected:
- Follow me on Instagram @theblackgirlmystic
- Visit blackgirlmystic.com for updates on in-person retreats, mentorship, and community offerings.
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13. Sara Clark on Self-Discovery Through Yoga
Sara Clark is an international vinyasa yoga and meditation teacher. With nearly two decades of experience, Sara’s teachings merge the physical and spiritual practices of yoga with mindfulness and meditation techniques that help to ease suffering and liberate the soul.
She has been a Global Yoga Ambassador for lululemon and has graced the cover of Yoga Journal twice along with Prevention Magazine.
Sara has created a series of online yoga and meditation videos for Shape Magazine, Yoga Today, and Glo.
Known for her compassionate teaching style and fluid vinyasa sequences, Sara makes both the novice and the more experienced practitioner feel welcomed in her classes.
During this conversation Sara shares her wisdom on:
- Using yoga as a tool of healing after sexual trauma + an eating disorder.
- How she went from HBO to becoming a yoga teacher — despite being initially terrified.
- From home schooling to being the only Black girl at school to attending historically Black Hampton University — how school shaped Sara’s sense of self + belonging.
- How traveling the world solo is exhilarating + empowering.
- The legacy of the African diaspora as experienced as an American currently living in the Caribbean.
Connect with Sara online:
Resources mentioned in this gathering:
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Work with Me:
- Sacred No, Divine Yes — My (free) abundance activation for living in ease and authenticity.
- Sacred Success Oracle Reading — A 45-minute session to align with your path to abundance, power, and prosperity.
- Goddess Frequency Mystery School — Join the revolutionary mystery school for effortless wealth, ease, and freedom.
- Quantum Legacy Private Mentorship — A six-month 1:1 experience for visionary leaders ready to leap into their calling.
- In-person Retreats + Intensives — Embody your divine potential in bespoke luxury retreats.
Stay Connected:
- Follow me on Instagram @theblackgirlmystic
- Visit blackgirlmystic.com for updates on in-person retreats, mentorship, and community offerings.
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