Community Resources
Here’s what our community is learning, reading and tuning into right now to support our healing & transformation
what we’re digging….
PODCASTS
On Being - Guest: Resmaa Menakem
with Krista Tippett
The best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.”
CLASSES
Free Racialized Trauma Course
by Cultural Somatics
We can’t help ourselves even begin to heal racialized trauma if we don’t acknowledge that it even exists..
PODCASTS
Ten percent happier
Guest: Sebene Selassie
with Dan Harris
“You Can't Meditate This Away"
Race, Rage, and the ResponsibRace, Rage, and the Responsibilities of Meditators. There is fury in America's streets -- and we, as meditators, have the opportunity to use our practice to do the hard work of seeing things clearly and responding wisely. I'm incredibly grateful to my guest, meditation teacher Sebene Selassie, for agreeing to come on this show to discuss such a painful subject.
CLASSES
In this body
@ energeticjustice.com
A 12 day, self-paced mini course on the sacred responsibility of being in a white body in this time.
Getting into our bodies is really popular right now (breathwork, dance, somatics, womb work, energy healing, etc). We’re here for it. The thing is, embodiment practice isn’t getting us very far if we aren’t looking at how our bodies have been raced and politicized.
BOOKS
Gene Keys: Unlocking the Higher Purpose Hidden in Your DNA
Is our destiny written inside our very DNA? Richard Rudd suggests that humanity is on the verge of a major shift in consciousness rooted in a new understanding of our genes.
PRACTICE CARDS
Practice Gratitude
with Gratitude Blooming
Pick a gratitude blooming card and see what mesage you get.
Secret access code: bloom
art
Seeds of Inspiration:
Hestia Spring Zine 2020
We created this Zine as a space to give the Hestia community an opportunity to connect with what our Souls want to bring into the world in this next season of our lives.
RECIPES
Nourish Your Body-
2 Healthy and Simple Recipes
recommended by Melissa S
PODCASTS
Home to Her series
with Liz Childs Kelly
Join Home to Her podcast as we explore the lost and stolen wisdom of the Sacred Feminine.
Books
Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
Get inspired by the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts.
BOOKS
Belonging :
Remembering Ourselves Home
by Toko-pa Turner
Most people think of belonging as a mythical place, and spend a lifetime searching for it But what if belonging isn't a place at all? What if it's a skill that has been lost or forgotten?
BOOKS
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
by Adrienne Maree Brown
Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen.
BOOKS
The Abundance of Less: Lessons in Simple Living from Rural Japan
by Andy Couturier
The book captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary—yet exceptional—men and women who left behind mainstream existences in urban Japan to live surrounded by the luxuries of nature, art, friends, delicious food, and an abundance of time..
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