Practice You with Elena Brower
194 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 394 ratingsContent and conversations for times of transition and change.
Join me in discussion with renowned luminaries and dear friends to explore life's myriad transitions, our understandings and our responses. What does it mean to be present, to shift our perceptions, to engage with the world meaningfully, with dignity and care? With respect for the ancient practices and the modern wisdom that continue to inform and elevate our exchanges, each episode is an invitation to Practice You.
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Episode 93: SuChin Pak
July 03, 2021 16:00 - 44 minutes - 60.4 MBOn vocalizing the pain of generations, standing up to ensure safe spaces, and crafting the conversations that need to be heard.
Episode 92: Yung Pueblo
June 19, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBOn managing reactions, creating structural compassion and walking the middle path.
Episode 91: Hiro Boga
June 12, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MBOn the ecology of your business; creating a world of your work that feels like a sanctuary for yourself and others.
Episode 90: Shannon Algeo
June 05, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MBOn releasing rage, growing up, and the steady vibration of truth.
Episode 89: Miki Agrawal
May 22, 2021 08:30 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBOn being an architect of community, social entrepreneurship and creating businesses straight from your heart. Permission to be creative [3:12] Confidence. Creating products that are taboo [6:28] Miki’s experience of being sexually assaulted [9:41] Lessons learned from professional hurdles [18:30] Launching Tushy. Three questions Miki asks herself before starting any business [31:21] Conceiving and letting go [44:33] RESOURCES Miki Agrawal Thinx Tushy Do Cool Sh*t, Miki Agra...
Episode 88: Dr. Edith Eger
May 15, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBOn resolving victimhood, transforming fear, freedom from resentment, curiosity as hope, and delivering deep love to yourself, no matter what. The listening that is required to help others heal [4:21] Empowerment in the face of life’s deepest hardships [8.31] Creating family constitutions [15:35] Forgiving yourself [17:09] Nobody heals in a straight line [20:39] Practicing your low frustration tolerance level [27:36] The calamity theory of growth [30:52] Living to enrich the p...
Episode 87: Sah D'Simone
May 01, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 58 MBOn recalibrating your nervous system, dancing with fear, and the smallest acts of forgiveness. Sah D’Simone is a spiritual guide, meditation teacher, international transformational speaker, and best-selling author who has dedicated his life to helping others to live in alignment and achieve their highest potential. He is pioneering a Spiritually Sassy, heart-based healing movement rooted in science-backed, tried-and-true techniques, in which joy and authenticity illuminate the path to enl...
Episode 86: Tracee Stanley
April 24, 2021 10:00 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBOn prioritizing our inner world through the practice of Yoga Nidra; the clear benefits of Radiant Rest. Brain waves and Yoga Nidra [2:30] Om, Maya and Turiya [6:56] Yoga Nidra explained simply [16:40] The mind merging in its source [18:05] Awareness and honoring of trauma [21:51] Octavia’s story. Remembering our ancestors. The birthright to rest [26:14] Pratyahara [33:03] Pratyahara practice led by Tracee [36:53] Weaving in your practice when you can [46:43] The value of ...
Episode 85: Kathleen St. Ours
April 17, 2021 10:00 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBOn resilience through harrowing childhood assault, sharing pain as a service to others and the medicine of the story.
Episode 84: Richard Freeman and Mary Taylor
April 03, 2021 08:33 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBRICHARD FREEMAN began studying yoga in 1968, focusing on hatha, contemplative Buddhism, and the Ashtanga and Iyengar methods. He teaches throughout the world, and his video series, Yoga with Richard Freeman, set the gold standard for modern Ashtanga Yoga. MARY TAYLOR has studied and practiced yoga since 1972 and teaches throughout the world. She co-founded the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, Colorado in 1988 with Richard. The importance of not casting people out of our hearts [3:12] Letting g...
Episode 83: Erin Clabough
March 27, 2021 04:57 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBOn using neuroscience to raise caring, compassionate, creative humans. Creativity [3:04] Empathy and self-control [7:40] Stages of brain development [20:14] Using brain plasticity to parent better. Experiences as a toolkit [24:03] Offering choices to children [30:42] Parental scaffolding. Offering a framework to kids for any given scenario [33:45] Conflict resolution. Teaching your kids to communicate clearly [41:40] Role playing. Learning to set boundaries [44:23] Fosterin...
Episode 82: Marnie Nir
March 13, 2021 08:14 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBOn evolving and resolving generational patterns and misunderstandings. On loving ourselves enough to be a safe space for others; on great communication. Inner.U LOVE. Writing dreams for love, relationship to self and body [6:07] Looking to yourself rather than blaming others [7:53] Noticing when we’re trying to make our partners more like us [10:32] Identifying the relationship sports you’ve been playing [12:42] How outing our issues can help others [15:16] Sex and relationships....
Episode 81: Claire Ragozzino
March 06, 2021 16:36 - 36 minutes - 50 MBOn Ayurveda as a practice of deep listening, strengthening our ability to be resilient, present, and respectful of the rhythms of Nature. Claire Ragozzino is a certified yoga instructor and Ayurvedic counselor with a background in holistic nutrition and natural cooking. Her work is dedicated to bringing yoga, Ayurveda, and nutrition to a modern lifestyle. She is the author of the popular site, Vidya Living, and also writes and photographs for online and print publications surrounding topic...
Episode 80: Quddus
February 20, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 94.9 MBOn true allyship, the names we need to keep repeating, the necessary healings and breaking through Quddus (Q) is a veteran TV host, acclaimed celebrity interviewer and breakthrough media coach. Q is a former host of MTV’s iconic show Total Request Live (TRL), has produced projects with the likes of AOL, Yahoo, and YouTube, and worked in artist development for Interscope Records. Q has spoken for audiences at the United Nations and Global Citizen Festival but a trip to his father’s homeland...
Episode 79: Katie Hess
February 13, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBOn the subtlety and majesty of the flowers, and their capacity to bring our human bodies back to Nature. Katie Hess is an expert of flower alchemy - using the healing power of flowers to awaken our true potential. She is the author of Flowerevolution and founder of LOTUSWEI, the world’s leading flower elixir apothecary. She travels in search of rare flowers with the healing qualities most needed by today’s world, from the forests of British Columbia, to sacred sites in India, rainforests ...
Episode 78: Dr. Anthony Lyon
January 30, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MBOn the harrowing reality from the hospital floor, two actions we can take to stop the spread, and the stories we craft to help us cope. Being open to learning. Basing recommendations on scientific data [06:08] Considering what it feels like to be unable to breathe easily [07:40] There are still no consistently effective treatments for Covid-19 [8:42] Why earlier hospitalization can make a difference [9:36] Dr. Lyon’s experience of treating Covid-19 patients [11:21] Doing what we ...
Episode 77: Kerri Kelly
January 23, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBOn a new definition of politics, and caring for ourselves through this. Sustainability vs growth [3:26] Bridging personal transformation and politics [5:22] The origins of CTZNWELL [9:31] White supremacy and the wellness community [12:20] Reckoning. Staying curious. Expanding your practice to include staying informed [14:15] Questions to ask about the governance of wellness [20:45] Considering wellbeing on a national level [22:48] Holding uncertainty [25:05] Building commun...
Episode 76: Judith Hanson Lasater
January 16, 2021 07:45 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBOn the core of communication, and some myths we can release. Approaching yoga poses with questions rather than rules [1:50] Non-violent communication. Connecting with ourselves. Recognizing mutuality [8:33] Communicating as a parent [17:36] Trust. Telling the truth with empathy. Saying no while staying in connection [22:37] Self-empathy practice [27:24] A common yoga myth about the pelvis in seated twists [32:44] Body leading, mind following [40:36] Sweet Body poem reading [4...
Episode 75: Justin Michael Williams
January 02, 2021 11:00 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBJustin Michael Williams works at the intersection of music, mindfulness, and social justice. With his groundbreaking book, Stay Woke, and over a decade of teaching experience, Justin has become a pioneering voice for diversity and inclusion in wellness. Ending Racism Manifesto [1:40] The five assumptions we make about why racism persists [8:33] Justin’s process of writing the Manifesto [15:40] Racism is learned [18:30] Questioning the idea that racism can not end [21:29] Race is n...
Episode 74: Julie Wald
December 27, 2020 11:00 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBOn the vital ways in which we approach practice for mental health. Julie Wald is the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, Inner Wealth: How Wellness Heals, Nurtures, and Optimizes Ultra-Successful People, and the founder of Namaste Wellness. Julie has over twenty-five years of experience as a clinical social worker, yoga and meditation teacher. She’s committed to serving not only Namaste’s elite clientele of high performing companies and families, but also to delivering complimentary welln...
Episode 73: Jodie Patterson
December 19, 2020 06:23 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBOn womanhood, excellence, Blackness, and our crucial collaborations in parenting, partnership, and creativity. Rebirthing many times throughout life [3:57] Women, Southern culture and power [5:15] Demonstrating Black Excellence [12:10] Seeking out Black culture [18:14] Not letting the dominant culture confuse you [21:52] A different kind of leadership [24:55] Detaching from things that define us. Coming back different [29:51] Finding the upside of the split [38:11] Represent...
Episode 72: Johanna Nichols and Martha McAlpine
November 28, 2020 06:42 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBOn homeschooling as reclaiming learning, prioritizing in a busy household and the gifts of boredom. Making the decision to homeschool [2:03] Keeping rhythms with non-attachment [8:57] Being driven by children’s interest. Choosing. Focusing [12:31] Reclaiming our learning. Giving ownership to the children [21:48] Interoception. Subtracting and letting kids get bored [23:14] Surviving as a family. Choosing values and saying them out loud [27:15] Being generous with yourself so tha...
Episode 71: Latham Thomas
November 21, 2020 02:23 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBOn the history of black maternal health, how we can change the story, and parenting our kids as actualized beings. The Black Maternal Health crisis [1:58] Gynecology and its origins in slavery [6:09] The need for a reckoning. Reenvisioning a holistic view and a service model [10:17] Ways to be involved [14:51] Mama Glow Doula professional training program scholarship fund [30:19] Learning and unlearning [34:07] Parenting teenagers. Leaning into resilience and using our tools [36...
Episode 70: Reggie Hubbard
November 07, 2020 07:13 - 47 minutes - 64.6 MBOn compassion in the context of activism, building a culture of care, and cultivating enthusiasm to save our democracy. Being radically human [2:42] Sharing peace in a way that incites action [4:24] Our responsibility to each other. Information and discernment [6:21] Planting seeds of love and compassion [12:52] Changing our opinions over time [18:00] Immigration detainment camps. Focusing on human values [22:28] Leading with what inspires us [27:13] Operating from our humanit...
Episode 69: Albert Flynn DeSilver
October 31, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBOn showing up for your writing with devotion. On reading as writing; writing as reading. On humility as wisdom. Albert Flynn DeSilver is a poet, memoirist, speaker, master mindfulness meditation teacher and workshop leader teaching nationally at the Omega Institute, Spirit Rock, 1440 MUltiversity, Shambhala Mountain Center, the Esalen Institute, and at writing conferences nationally. Albert has read and shared the stage with International bestselling authors Cheryl Strayed, Elizabeth Gilbe...
Episode 68: Jody Levy
October 17, 2020 06:29 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBOn clearing biotoxicity and creating work that heals. Biotoxicity [2:17] The Milk Cleanse [7:07] The genesis of NeuroPraxis [11:21] The importance of knowing your own body [19:46] Ayurveda and balance [23:10] Slowing down and appreciating time [23:43] Prayer [28:04] Jody Levy is an artist, designer, director, educator, entrepreneur, executive and investor from the Detroit area who lives between Denver and New York City. Jody is the founder, creative director and Chief Executi...
Episode 67: Jacy Cunningham
September 26, 2020 06:44 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBOn the life-changing conversations of race, the majestic presence of lineage, and the vital, daily work of loving yourself. The birth of The Jacy Method [2:15] On feeling alone in a community [7:01] The importance of expressing joy and showing up as yourself [9:39] Jacy’s morning marriage practice [16:42] On living multiple lives as a Black person [24:52] The opportunity to have conversations about racism [32:57] Eye gazing [39:01] Whiteness in the wellness space [41:50] Kno...
Episode 66: Chloé Valdary
September 19, 2020 05:59 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MBOn transcending our instincts, practicing what scares us, seeing where we coincide, and choosing our state. After spending a year as a Bartley fellow at the Wall Street Journal, Chloé Valdary developed The Theory of Enchantment, an innovative framework for social emotional learning (SEL), character development, and interpersonal growth that uses pop culture as an educational tool in the classroom and beyond. Chloé has trained around the world, including in South Africa, The Netherlands, ...
Episode 65: Erin Douglas
September 05, 2020 06:07 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBErin is a travel, culture and lifestyle documentary photographer, creative culture consultant, writer and founder of Black Burner Project. After discovering her love for photography on a solo trip the Philippines, she has placed travel photography at the center of her personal work. Erin's first experience of Burning Man [3:17] What moved Erin to create the Black Burner Project [10:01] The feeling of being one of few [14:08] Inspiring potential burners by making people feel seen [20:0...
Episode 64: Pixie Lighthorse
August 29, 2020 06:39 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBOn connecting to Nature, our wisest innermost council, and our deepest compassion. Managing chaos [2:44] Understanding the need to project chaos outwards [6:23] Tools that Pixie is using and sharing right now [10:13] Asking for help and managing resources [17:07] Disassociation and discernment [19:04] Shamanic arts. Returning to the core of peace within [21:30] Building your council. Releasing control [27:59] What needs healing [36:54] Favourite view [38:09] Prayer [39:29...
Episode 63: Jeff Burroughs
August 22, 2020 05:44 - 47 minutes - 65 MBOn 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 s...
Episode 62: April Dawn Harter
August 08, 2020 06:58 - 1 hour - 147 MBOn 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 r...
Episode 61: Jesse Johnson
July 25, 2020 15:29 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBOn 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 figu...
Episode 60: Nadine McNeil
July 18, 2020 07:12 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBOn 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...
Episode 59: Jeff Krasno
July 11, 2020 06:55 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBOn 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...
Episode 58: Kiese Laymon
June 27, 2020 05:16 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBOn 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 tende...
Episode 57: Biet Simkin
June 20, 2020 17:58 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MBOn 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-renown...
Episode 56: Toko-pa Turner
June 13, 2020 06:54 - 41 minutes - 56.8 MBOn 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, h...
Episode 55: Seane Corn
May 16, 2020 07:20 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBOn 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] Resources https://www.seanecorn.com/ Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through ...
Episode 54: Paavo Siljamäki
May 09, 2020 13:29 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MBOn 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 th...
Episode 53: Laura McKowen
May 02, 2020 07:34 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBOn the road to sobriety, the questions we need to ask, and the ways we need to listen. Laura McKowen inspires people to say yes to a bigger life after addiction. She’s the author of the forthcoming memoir, We Are The Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life (January 2020), and has been featured on WebMD, The Guardian, The New York Post, Bravo, and the TODAY show. She writes an internationally recognized, award-winning blog, is the host of two Top 100 iTunes podcasts, and leads sold-...
Episode 52: Sierra Campbell
April 18, 2020 06:05 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MBOn intentional death and dying, elder and hospice care, and the conversations we need to have to help our elders die beautifully. Over the past 20 years, Sierra Campbell has worked with the elderly suffering loss of independence through health crises such as illness, a fall, operations, and facing the great unknown, death. After a decade of owning and operating a successful home care agency, Sierra burnt out and took time to reflect on her time helping more than 100 (mostly elders) people ...
Episode 51: IN-Q
April 11, 2020 16:44 - 46 minutes - 64.2 MBOn poetry that transforms our ways of seeing, listening and being. IN-Q is a National Poetry Slam champion, award-winning poet, and multi-platinum songwriter. His groundbreaking achievements include being named to Oprah's SuperSoul 100 list of the world's most influential thought leaders, being the first spoken word artist to perform with Cirque Du Soleil, and being featured on A&E, ESPN, and HBO's Def Poetry Jam. He's inspired audiences around the world through his live performances and s...
Episode 50: Elena Brower and James Benard
April 02, 2020 06:26 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBOn communication in quarantine, with courageous openness. Prioritizing the team [1:47] Assuming that your partner's freak out is a coping mechanism [3:50] The importance of knowing yourself first [5:30] Moving together [7:01] Family meetings, being present [7:40] Checking in every day [12:14] Practicing courageous openness and mutual respect [19:07] RESOURCES Esther Perel podcast Hiro Boga The Mirror dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky The African Queen dir. By John Huston Angela C...
Episode 49: Nick Ortner
March 21, 2020 06:56 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBOn the efficacy and daily magic of EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, to recognize, release and heal ourselves. Tapping as a way of letting go of the physical grip of old emotions [2:24] Nick’s early encounters with tapping [8:03] Making The Tapping Solution documentary [11:16] Tapping as a bridge to meditation [16:00] The power of acknowledging how we actually feel [17:48] The Tapping Solution App [23:49] Tapping session with Nick for anxiety [26:57] The practical insights ...
Episode 48: Scott Schwenk
March 14, 2020 17:38 - 47 minutes - 65.7 MBA hybrid of laser-like practicality and cutting-edge visionary insight, Scott Schwenk has been catalyzing the inner evolution and leadership development of individuals, relationships, and larger groups and organizations for over 25 years. His work and teaching is a blend of stillness, unexpected expansion, laughter, discovery and potent actionable insights revealing dynamic inner freedom and a thriving outer life. Resources http://scottschwenk.com
Episode 47: Kim Krans
March 07, 2020 06:43 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBDrawing as living energy [2:22] Turning towards the pain [4:44] The power of acknowledging and sharing our struggles [6:35] The characters of ‘Both’ and ‘And’ [12:48] The spectrum of addiction and handling infatuation [15:35] Drawing The Marquee [21:30] Honoring miscarriage through drawing, healing the Mother archetype [28:11] Mercy [31:25] Letter to the reader [37:07] Kim Krans is a visionary artist, author, and creator of The New York Times bestseller The Wild Unknown Ta...
Episode 46: Desiree Delunae
February 29, 2020 06:29 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBOn boundaries, magnetizing prosperity, and practices for releasing blocks and renewing your relationship to abundance of all kinds. Desiree Delunae is a Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, author and Blue Diamond Wellness Advocate. She provides a unique perspective of essential oil usage by infusing ancient principles of Chinese Medicine. Her work holds a core philosophy that emotions are a significant factor in creating health or dis-ease. Boundaries for healers [2:18] Tools for accepti...
Episode 46: Desiree Mangandog
February 29, 2020 06:29 - 48 minutes - 67.1 MBOn boundaries, magnetizing prosperity, and practices for releasing blocks and renewing your relationship to abundance of all kinds. Desiree Mangandog is a Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, author and Blue Diamond Wellness Advocate. She provides a unique perspective of essential oil usage by infusing ancient principles of Chinese Medicine. Her work holds a core philosophy that emotions are a significant factor in creating health or dis-ease. Boundaries for healers [2:18] Tools for accep...
Episode 45: Justin Michael Williams
February 15, 2020 06:24 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBOn the true history of "woke" culture, dismantling toxicity and meditation as a recipe for freedom. Justin Michael Williams is an author, speaker, and top 20 recording artist who is using music and meditation to wake up the world. By working at the intersection of music, mindfulness, and social justice, Justin has become a pioneering voice for diversity and inclusion in wellness. He has been featured by Billboard.com and Yoga Journal, shared the stage with Deepak Chopra, and presented at e...