Practice You with Elena Brower

On the past as fuel for the future, the realities of race, and the magic of making records.

• Jeff's earliest musical influences [3:37]
• His first experience of racism [6:40]
• Creating his own blueprint for life [11:10]
• Speaking to his children about what it means to be Black in America [15:16]
• Favorite moments with Bad Boy [22:16]
• The night that Biggie was murdered [26:22]
• Artists Jeff is most excited about now [31:39]
• Favorite view [38:06]
• Prayer [40:01]
• Delivering art to shift culture [42:00]

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Jeff Burroughs' leverages pop culture, bridging the gap to cultural relevance for brand initiatives and to build artist brands.

He's had the pleasure of working with some of today's most innovative brands and been fortunate enough to have developed successful brand strategies for award winning-world class artists like YG, P Diddy and 2 Chains, top rated television programs like the XFactor and a host of cpg companies. As Executive Vice President of Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy became one of the highest grossing conglomerates in the entertainment industry and shifted culture.

On racism recovery as psychological, individual and collective healing.

• How April came to her work [2:35]
• Racism from a psychological perspective [11:12]
• Narcissism and codependency [18:43]
• White privilege. Complicity [23:00]
• Treating perpetrators. Defense mechanisms [26:08]
• Co-dependent racist savorism and anti-racist education on Instagram [33:19]
• Racist rejection of whiteness and cultural appropriation [57:51]
• Building trust and being trustworthy [59:50]
• Psychoanalysing racism and evidence-based practices [1:10:55]
• Stages of change [1:33:25]

April is a former medical social worker, where she provided counseling to her patients and their family members to help them cope with the trauma of medical emergencies in the state of Texas. She later moved to Colorado and started her private practice to serve QTPOC patients with a history of racial trauma. After having worked with QTPOC, she decided to help prevent racism in society by working with white clients as a coach using the Racist Signature Theory. Finally, she opened up the Racism Recovery Center to provide psychotherapy for the treatment of racism.

https://www.racismrecoverycenter.com/ Racism Recovery Center Developing Self Trust Disparity in History textbooks All About Love, Bell Hooks The Courage to Trust, Cynthia Lynn Wall My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem Chloe Valdary, Theory of Enchantment Dr. Gabor Mate

On scarcity in schools, committing to our edification, wealth as activism, and standing back to back as we heal.

Jesse Johnson is a master sales and success coach, specializing in helping spiritual entrepreneurs build 7-figure businesses. An artist, activist, and educator, Jesse's career began with 12 years teaching math in NYC public schools. Frustrated by the limits of both bureaucracy and poverty, she founded her own personal development company and blew her own mind taking it to 7 figures in just 2 years. Jesse now teaches coaches, spiritual leaders, and healers to experience sales as a spiritual practice and match their income with their personal mastery - no compromise, no self-sacrifice, no mediocrity.

• Jesse's experience of teaching in NYC public schools [0:45]
• How Jesse came to start her own business [10:19]
• Wealth as activism [14:03]
• Lifting others up from a place of alignment [19:07]
• What needs healing [21:48]
• Favourite view [23:32]
• Prayer [26:03]
• Money and liberation [28:02]
• Integrating physical identity with spiritual truth. Conversations about race [29:55]

http://jessejohnsoncoaching.com/ Jesse's YouTube channel Mastering Sales eBook Kate LaBrosse This is Me, Bipolar-Free, Kate LaBrosse Erika Matos SriKala

On the voyage of service, what still needs our attention, connecting to Mother Earth, and majestic remembrance.

Nadine McNeil, is a yoga teacher, speaker, transformational coach and humanitarian whose mission is to ignite infinite possibility in people around the world and share yoga with diverse underserved communities.

Over the last few decades, Nadine has travelled the world in service of the UN, UNICEF, Global Volunteer Network and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. These and other experiences rooted Nadine's continued devotion to activism.

Inspired by her firsthand encounters with both the resilience of the human spirit and also its suffering, Nadine's talks, workshops, yoga sessions and retreats are continually described as powerful, moving and insightful.

• Trust, Truth and Dare. Choosing a word as a compass [0:45]
• Releasing trauma from the body. Connecting to the earth [8:51]
• Nadine's humanitarian work with the UN [15:25]
• Nadine's transition into yoga [24:14]
• How Nadine merged all of her passions and gifts [29:23]
• What needs to be healed [33:24]
• Favorite view [35:17]
• Prayer [35:56]
• What the body knows [36:50]

https://www.universalempress.com/ Nadine's 21-Day Reset Program Transformational Women's Circles Race Corona, On World Yoga Day My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem On Being podcast with Resmaa Menakem Michael Moore podcast Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

On whiteness in wellness, our responsibility, our clumsiness and our commitments.

• Creating Wanderlust [4:41]
• Spirituality and Civic engagement [16:30]
• Acknowledging complicity. The role of the wellness teacher [20:39]
• Black Lives Matter protests. Witnessing glimpses of Oneness [29:21]
• Grace for clumsiness. Taking moral inventory [36:33]
• Reframing the notion of separation [43:39]
• Shaping the world in small moments [47:59]

Jeff attended The Hotchkiss School and received his BA in 1993 from Columbia University. In 2008, Jeff created the concept for Wanderlust, a series of large-scale events combining yoga & wellness with the arts.

In 2018, Jeff founded Commune Media, an online learning platform for personal and societal well-being. As CEO, Jeff focuses on talent relationships, business development and building a stellar team. He also hosts the Commune podcast, interviewing a wide variety of guests from Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson to Brendon Burchard and Russell Brand.

Jeff serves on the board of Pure Edge, a non-profit organization dedicated to integrating yoga and mindfulness curriculum into the public school system. Jeff is a contributor to the Huffington Post and Fast Company. Jeff has written two books, Wanderlust & Find Your True Fork and pens a weekly newsletter called Commusings.

In 2016, he was selected by Oprah Winfrey to be part of the SuperSoul100 as one of the nation's leading entrepreneurs.

In 1995, Jeff married Schuyler Grant, his college sweetheart. Schuyler, a yoga teacher and director of Kula Yoga Project, served as the inspiration for Wanderlust. Jeff & Schuyler have three beautiful daughters, Phoebe, Lolli and Micah. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.

http://www.onecommune.com/ http://www.jeffkrasno.com/

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On studentship, using your art to heal, and becoming heavy enough to hold it all.

Kiese Laymon is the author of three books, most recently the NY Times bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir. He is a Professor of English born and raised in Jackson Mississippi.

• The places we stay [3:26]
• What inspired Kiese to write Heavy to his mother [5:05]
• The consequences of masking pain [7:18]
• How learning requires failure [11:31]
• Parenting and secrets [14:25]
• The importance of tender touch [18:25]
• What does it mean to repair damage done? [21:43]
• The overlapping problems with police [25:19]
• Gambling addiction and recovery [29:50]
• Kiese's Grandmother. Embodying love. Heavy enough [36:03]

Heavy by Kiese Laymon Kiese Laymon on Dani Shapiro's podcast Family Secrets

On choosing conscious shocks, conscious suffering and crystallizing your commitment to daily bliss.

• The Fourth Way [1:30]
• The law of divided attention [8:28]
• The law of aim [12:20]
• The law of identification [15:12]
• The law of shocks [20:54]
• The law of three [27:05]
• The law of self-remembering [30:55]
• Unnecessary vs necessary suffering [33:06]
• Buffers. How much joy can you stand? [36:45]
• The law of death [41:39]
• The law of crystallization [46:50]

Biet is the world-renowned meditation leader dubbed the "Lady Gaga of Meditation." As a musician, Biet weaves the world of pop culture and spirituality, teaching practical applications of ancient spiritual wisdom. The teachings are featured in Biet's best selling book, 'Don't Just Sit There!' published by Simon & Schuster.

Biet Simkin website Guided by Biet on Instagram Don't just sit there, Biet Simkin Biet Simkin music https://open.spotify.com/track/5WUQMoFM0zGfTmFfs3AoIL?si=4GaEP7muT_64_D7wUbAnLQ Views from the Real World - Gurdjieff Self Remembering - Red Hawk h The Overstory - Richard Powers Self-Remembering - Robert Earl Burton Hildegard non Bingen music The Lunar

On belonging, dreamwork, and welcoming aging as a privilege.

Toko-pa Turner is an award-winning Canadian writer, teacher, and dreamworker who blends the mystical tradition of Sufism with a Jungian approach to dreams. In 2001 she founded the Dream School, from which hundreds of students have graduated, and she speaks internationally on the subject of dreams and belonging. Sometimes called a "midwife of the psyche," Toko-pa's work focuses on restoring the feminine, reciprocity with nature, honouring grief, ritual, and beauty-making. Her book, "Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home" is the winner of multiple awards including the 2017 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2018 Readers' Favorite Gold Award, named Finalist in the 2018 Whistler Independent Book Awards, and Finalist for the 2019 Montaigne Medal in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. She lives on a small island in the Salish Sea of British Columbia.

• Our longing to belong [2:09]
• Toko-pa's early years [6:06]
• Honoring grief [10:12]
• Witnessing others in difficult times [12:11]
• Toko-pa's healing journey [19:25]
• Finding a place where our grief is welcomed [23:30]
• Dreams and the language of metaphors [26:35]
• Aging and our relationship to Elders [31:55]
• Prayer [35:34]
• Relocating Magic [37:07]

https://toko-pa.com/ Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home Belonging - Toko-pa Turner Toko-pa Turner on Instagram Rushing the redemption - Toko-pa Turner Birdwings - Rumi The Smell of Rain on Dust- Martin Prechtel A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

On the perpetual revolution of the soul, with the one and only Seane Corn.

• Becoming an elder [3:06]
• What Seane's friend Billy taught her [8:12]
• The role of therapy in processing trauma, speaking out against injustice [15:33]
• Grief [29:50]
• Dismantling the systems within, creating social change [40:29]
• Seane's main mentors and guides [50:48]
• What Seane would say to a young yoga teacher [53:52]

https://www.seanecorn.com/ Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

On music as medicine, listening carefully, and the relevance of surrendering.

• Paavo's early connection to music [2:37]
• Things that help Paavo in uncertain times [6:39]
• What inspired the making of the Flow State album [9:33]
• Questions about work life balance as an artist [14:34]
• Improvising [19:00]
• Not knowing and surrendering [21:07]
• What needs healing [30:08]
• Favourite view [31:03]
• Prayer [31:42]
• Preview of new Flow State meditations album [34:22]

Paavo Siljamäki, one third of Above & Beyond, has been at the forefront of electronic dance music for two decades.

Co-founder of the iconic Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep record labels, hosts of Group Therapy, a weekly radio show reaching millions of dance lovers every Friday, the trio have earned two GRAMMY™️nominations for anthems 'Northern Soul' feat. Richard Bedford and 'We're All We Need' feat. Zoë Johnston. In 2018, the band's fourth electronic album, Common Ground, debuted at number three on the Official Billboard Album Chart.

Described by UK music bible Q Magazine as "the world's biggest cult band," Above & Beyond's list of sold-out shows includes headline performances at historic venues such as NYC's Madison Square Garden, Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House, Royal Albert Hall London, Red Rocks Amphitheater and record-breaking turnouts for their own festival events on LA's Huntington Beach and at The Gorge Amphitheater in Washington State.

Songwriters first, producers second, Above & Beyond's unwavering commitment to their craft has fueled a career spanning four acclaimed studio albums, 14 compilation albums, two acoustic albums and an album for yoga and meditation.

Flow State Meditations - a new series of spoken word pieces by Elena Brower and three other inspiring women from around the world - will be released on the 11th of May on Above & Beyond's record label, Anjunabeats.

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