The Restorative Pulse

Find the episode transcript here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1udQlZ880AQVGMd8mAfjAJnBXBsbakcr3UZph1sLAqRQ/edit?usp=sharing

Integrate has always been known for it's trainings, skill building and professional development so we are really returning to our roots to support your ability to be an inclusive space holder.  Here's what's coming up:

Sarah and Jess, sustainable farmers turned educators of Grounded Teaching are on the podcast this week talking about regenerating the education system as an ecosystem.

Topics covered:

Talking points for the podcast:

- What regenerative ed even means!

- Reciprocity in the classroom

- Place- Based Systems Design/ Edsheds

- How to set up a Living System while still being in "The System"

You can read the transcript of this podcast episode by clicking the link below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uZ9_p_o7e6J55kGQJp64beLlZZaDJIGSKTNhFxiaRU0/edit?usp=sharing

Who are Grounded Teaching

We focus on improving the quality of life for the teachers in our educational system, knowing that when human teachers are able to more healthfully re-connect within themselves, re-connect within their communities, and re-connect within their place on mama earth, they become the models for expressing their full potential and living fully, just as we hope our students will.

We want to empower teachers to become models of a whole, fully-conscious life in the classroom and out.

Jess Boeke

Jess is in her 16th year in the classroom in her third district and second state. She’s taught thousands of students and last year piloted the Regenerative Ed framework for her classes with great results. She’s a certified yoga teacher, movement/breathwork coach, and incorporates her understanding of these practices into her teaching practices. She co-founded the Rust Belt Fibershed with Sarah.

Sarah has personally coached hundreds of teachers through thousands of lessons and trained hundreds of teachers and leaders in high-quality, equitable instruction. Sarah also works as an advocate for regenerative farming and co-founded the Rust Belt Fibershed, which works to localize a regenerative fashion system within 250 miles of Cleveland, Ohio. The crossover between her work in ed, her work in agriculture, and her training as a health coach has led to this Grounded Teaching project.

Many of us know that networking is something we should do but how many of us know when we are networking with folks that are in alignment with us and keep equity in mind.  In this episode Integrate founder, Julie Johnson  discusses how Campain-Based or Solutions based networking can help us find the people that help us expand our skills and also leverage opportunity for folks radically under represented in our society.

You can read the transcript to this episode here.

One the best ways to begin authentic and inclusive networking.  Is through Campaign Based Networking. Check out these three strategies for authentic networking :

1) In campaign based networking you reach out to your community to find people who can help you with a problem you might need to solve

2) Prioritize folks of color, in the disability community or in LGBTQIA whose skills can help with your current need or problem

3)Continue to build relationships with these folks in live interactive, scheduled zoom sessions to see if you are in alignment with them.  Remember to ask about things other than work. Ask about their passion, self-care routines, favorite podcasts, etc.

Monica Milano is a yoga teacher specializing in yin yoga and gentle movement. She has been teaching yoga since 2014 and has been practicing for nearly two decades. Monica has trained in yin, hatha, vinyasa, restorative, prenatal and more, and continues to study yin yoga and somatic meditation extensively with Sally Miller. She is passionate about studying the history and philosophy of yoga and actively works to ensure that the practice she offers is respectful of all participants and of the source culture. Monica offers weekly yin yoga classes online through the Amate Society Collective, a group of individual teachers working together to offer accessible, inclusive wellness classes

A transcript to this episode can be found by clicking this link

In this episode Monica and I take a look at what building a connected yoga space looks like and how the term "yoga for all" can feel overwhelming to some yoga practitioners.  We discuss the following points in this episode:

1. What does accessibility mean?

2. Strategies for building an inclusive yoga class

3. Yolking yoga philosophy with accessibility and inclusion

You can find Monica's classes and blog posts at the links below:

Blog post: My Classes Are Not For Everyone

https://amatesociety.com/my-classes-are-not-for-everyone/

Weekly yin yoga classes: amatesociety.com/monica

Free resources and videos are available on my website, monicamilanoyoga.com.

In this episode Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Elisabeth T. Lilja, MSW, LCSW discusses the intersection of grief and attachment trauma and how we can access our spaces in psychologically sound ways as we move through grief and loss.

Dr. Chelze Zamani is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Southern California.  In this podcast, Chelze shares on the findings around her qualitative research around ambiguous loss and friendships.

Author, Psychotherapist, Yoga Therapist and Grief Activist, Karla Helbert, is on the podcast with us discussing how we can explore grief through the koshas (5 layers or "sheaths" of the body).  Karla leads us in a guided meditation and we discuss the difference between disenfranchised grief, traumatic grief, shadow loss and loss of a loved one.

Karla wrote the book Yoga for Grief and Loss, which you can purchase at the link here.

Amanda Hanna, founder of the Self-Agency Advocate Podcast and Trauma Sensitive Yin Yoga Teacher discusses how we can blend this concept of self-agency in a yin yoga practice to help us explore all different types of grief +loss.