Resources for Anti-Racism Work

06/05/20 • 13 min

The Wild and Wise

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Clarifying Non-Attachment and Spiritual Bypass with Kaya Mindlin

ep. #9
If you've dipped your toe in the waters of yogic practice or philosophy, and you have if you've ever even googled "mindfulness", this conversation will deepen and clarify some of the common mistranslations and misunderstandings of how to live our lives while also walking a spiritual path. We especially explore the ways being a parent can often feel "in the way" of our spiritual goals and practices. The difficult distance between our ideals and reality. Kaya speaks so beautifully to the gift we can give ourselves and our children when we practice and live our spiritual journey as family.

In this episode, I share about my own personal upbringing, raised in a yogic intentional community. Kaya also has a deep and meaningful relationship with this community, and we both hold so much love and respect for the teachings, the people and the beauty that is present there. While I do speak to some of my personal experiences and interpretations, I am sure they were unique to my own experience, my own family system and the projecting we as humans do onto others. So I ask you to hold what you hear with the awareness of both being true: reality and projection.

Things we touch on:

The misconceptions of practicing non-attachment
The absolute and the relative realities we exist in
Spiritual bypass
Splitting of life into spiritual life and the rest
The four stages of life
How not to sacrifice your spiritual life
Accepting or rejecting mental/emotional reactions
We can model our humanity for our kids
What family spiritual practice can look like
Clarifying karma yoga and selfless service
I do my work so you can do yours
Where to start

Kaya Mindlin is a Yoga therapist and educator who has been teaching the “softer side of yoga” for 19 years.
Learn more about Kaya's work at YogawithKaya.com

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Midwife for the Psyche with Maude Davis

ep. #11
My intro to this episode dives in a bit more than usual, into my thoughts on the work I am doing with this podcast and with my family, particularly regarding the learning process of how to practice anti-racism with every step I take. Here is the episode with Kaya Mindlin that I mention in the intro. Clarifying Non-attachment and Spiritual Bypass with Kaya Mindlin
This episode with Maude Davis (episode 11) doesn't directly bring in race, trauma and how therapy can support activism and anti-racism, it could be deeply effective and healing for that work. Much of what we talk about is the landscape of inner material that is longing to be healed. The grief and trauma we hold in our bodies is crying out to be felt and moved through.
I have personally found drama and expressive arts therapy to be the MOST impactful approach to healing life-long - no, generational patterns.

Maude Davis is working with therapy clients at the Living Arts Counseling Center in Oakland, Ca. She uses her training in Expressive Arts Therapy and Jungian Analysis as a "Therapy Director" in the workshops she does with Armond Volkis, called Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance. Maude has training and background in theater in New York City, where she worked for years as an actor, director and teacher. She is a PH.D candidate and has studied at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich.

Topics covered in this episode:

Theoretical background of Maude's work
Getting into the therapeutic work
Being in relationship to our inner material
Therapist revery
The moment of change
Activation of something very old within us
Midwives for the psyche
Entering the play space
Processing through play (children and adults)
The profound letting go
The universal trickster
Revolution coming, a play revolution
At home drama therapy exercises you can do today

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Autobiographical Therapeutic Performance is an innovative short-term therapy approach that supports participants in identifying and transforming self-defeating “life scripts” through drama therapy processes. ATP incorporates acting, improvisation, drama therapy, psychodrama and Playback Theatre techniques. Find out more at the website: Living Arts Counseling Center
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