The Lesson is Love - From The Grisha Stewart Academy

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   1. Feeling Into the Possibility of a Different World | Shireen Amini

   Episode 8: Feeling Into the Possibility of a Different World | Shireen Amini  “I feel like when we gather to sing–when I call it like a little bubble of a universe–to me it’s like, we have to know what it feels like to then know how to bring it in the greater bubbles, the greater ripples until it becomes something that we know how to feel as an entire global community.” -Shireen Amini  Join us for the eighth episode of The Lesson is Love, as I speak with Shireen Amini, a community songleader, pe

   Jan 04,2024 41:58
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   2. Tender Touch, Practice vs Performance, and The Skill of Tracking | Aaron Johnson

   Episode 7: Tender Touch, Practice vs Performance, and The Skill of Tracking | Aaron Johnson “For me when I think of consent, particularly black bodies and animals and touch and the violations that have been historically in place and how we’re finding new language and new ways to be together, I feel like the question I often have is: can we slow down and acknowledge what’s happened? Can we see all the levels of choice that are given to folks, and all the ways that choice is not given to folks?” -

   Nov 09,2023 54:22
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   3. Tapping, Embodied Healing Practices, and The Value of Re-Membering | Damon Silas

   Episode 6: Tapping, Embodied Healing Practices, and The Value of Re-Membering | Damon Silas  “We are whole mind, body, soul beings. And so to just do therapy with the frontal part of the brain is doing the rest of the body a disservice. It's doing the rest of your healing process a disservice. And not saying that for some people, traditional talk therapy might be their thing--and I love it for you--and our bodies hold so much valuable information as well, and I think it's important to acknowledg

   Sep 26,2023 01:08:13
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   4. Collective Culture, Systems Change and Choosing Ourselves | Lisa Moreno

   Episode 5:  Collective Culture, Systems Change and Choosing Ourselves | Lisa Moreno  “How might I take as good of care of myself as I took care of [my dog] Lily? How might I give myself as much grace as I gave her?” -Lisa Moreno  Join us for the fifth episode of The Lesson is Love, as I speak with Lisa Moreno, one of my dear friends and a systems-focused community activist currently working as a Behavioral Health Strategic Planner.  In this episode, we explore the affirmations we need to hear th

   Jul 21,2023 51:59
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   5. How To Be With Every Part of Yourself | Karen Faith

   Episode 4: How To Be With Every Part of Yourself | Karen Faith  “We should always be our own safest person; it would be really alarming if we were not. But creating that safety takes some work. I know so many people do not have safety with themselves. If I had a mission that would be it, to just help people be safer with themselves.’” -Karen Faith  Join us for the fourth episode of The Lesson is Love as I speak with Karen Faith, an ethnographer, strategist, empathy trainer and founder of Others

   Jun 07,2023 01:00:35
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   6. Practicing Grief and Practicing Pleasure | Alexandra ”Ahlay” Blakely

   *Content warnings: mentions of slavery at 13:35-14:50 and 36:27-37:25, the Holocaust at 19:00-21:00, and CSA at 25:35-26:00* “This is why these things are happening, because it’s only through the embodiment of these knowings do you carry the wisdom as an elder. And so the song came through: ‘Move at the speed of trust and breathe…what kind of elder do you want to be?’” -Alexandra “Ahlay” Blakely Join us for the third episode of The Lesson is Love as I speak with Alexandra “Ahlay” Blakely, a song

   May 02,2023 54:39
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   7. It’s OK to Not Know (Yet) | Justin Farren

   Episode 2: It’s Ok to Not Know (Yet), with Justin FarrenSHOW NOTES:“I felt like I was out of control and I didn’t want anybody else to think I was out of control. So that was just young Justin not being comfortable with: 'I don’t know.' Just being comfortable with, 'this dog sometimes does stupid stuff and it’s not my fault, it’s something we should be working through together.'" -Justin FarrenJoin us for the second episode of The Lesson is Love as I speak with Justin Farren, a singer-songwriter

   Mar 15,2023 47:18
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   8. Emotional Balance is as Easy as Riding a Unicycle | David Wilcox

   “I love songs that will give me the emotional reality of something I want to live into, so that I can feel it present tense and anchor that experience…and hold that experience as irrefutable proof of: ‘it’s possible to be there. It’s possible to get there.’” -David WilcoxJoin us for the very first episode of The Lesson is Love as I speak with David Wilcox, a transformative folk singer-songwriter and lifelong learner. In this episode we explore the power songwriting and music-making has in teachi

   Feb 06,2023 42:08