The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

The colonizer would love to see you give up.

Don't give them the satisfaction.

There's so much happening in the world...so quickly...and it's easy to get taken with the current of the chaos.

Now more than ever its important to be rooted so that we can offer ground, visions, and prayers instead of replicating colonial chaos.

Discernment beloveds.

There's a difference in speaking truth to power and dismantling vs. contributing to chaos.

This is why we need the spiritual TOO.

Why we need the spiritual FIRST.

I’m aware of the spiritual bypassing that happens a lot in western yoga. That’s simply not yoga. And it’s not the kind of yoga teachers we need and deserve.
You’re taking in an overload of information and being gaslit to think that everything is “fine”. Please stay connected to your humanity.

“The world is not transformed primarily by what we think of it. Transformative change happens when we are willing to build the things that we know must exist.” —Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You

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May you be healthy
May you live a life of ease

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