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Friday Yoga – Leave Your Corner of the World

August 21, 2015 | Oneika

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Dealing with a lot of anti-blackness and anti-queerness lately. I’ve had to navigate one specific aspect of white supremacy quite a bit, the ‘right to comfort’. This means that people who cause harm with divisive speech simultaneously want to stay in a bubble. That means no push back. I’m not supposed to tell you to stop it with your white nonsense (and yes, this extends to PoC folks and yes Black folks too). But if the path to interconnectedness means to explore and confront the cause of suffering isn’t it more harmful to stay silent? Asking for a friend. The more I follow the path, the more I see how I’m connected to folks who cause harm. This makes me sad and angry. This makes me frustrated and hopeful. This makes me open to hearing nonsense and more firm around setting boundaries so I am not harmed. This is compassionate living, friends. I’m tired AF because foolishness. And at the same time I’m aware how tied up I can get into my own identity when someone ‘others’ my experience. The system is perfect- I feel guilty around my shame of being othered. WTF? This was happening yesterday, old storylines around race clung to me like a wet white T-shirt AND I knew it. So I spent the evening being soft with myself- took a shower, made a yummy dinner, talked to @andyladyboi , squished Jett’s furry face, danced in my living room and went to bed. I realized that I did not have to soothe someone’s confused sadness. I don’t have to hang my hope to be seen by folks who won’t. I have compassion for myself, for my community and even for those who words cause harm. I mean we ain’t having tea or 🍷 but suffering is suffering. May we all be free from that shit. Last night I was joyful, lucid, sensual and present. You see, I can feel anger and happiness. Decolonizing my mind with meditation means that I keep the container large enough to hold all of my emotions with a gentle compassion. Healing takes time. So I’ll let things unfold- slow and juicy like. I’ll peel away the layers of this self one a time until embracing the exquisite center that is me and not me 😉 #blackmeditationteacher #decolonizingmymind #metta #compassion #boundaries

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