Shankari Goldstein is a Program Manager at the Mind & Life Institute. Trained in the lineage of Integral Yoga, Shankari has spent years connecting to breath, body, strength, movement, and energy. She is a Certified Yoga of Recovery Instructor, an Accessible Yoga Ambassador, Activist and a founder of The State of Union (Yoga) Address series, Shensara Yoga Festival, The Black Female Farmers Network, and the Black Yogis of Virginia group. An avid Social Justice activist for over a decade, she continues to find ways to help propel the voices of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) forward and share their embodied practices. Shankari lives on a regenerative farm, with her husband and more than 60 animals and livestock.

In this very informative and generative interview with Shankari, we discuss:

• Regenerative Farming and regeneration of all kinds
• Black liberation
• Our ancestors as radical seeds
• Our work as living ancestors
• The critical nature of this very moment of reckoning with white supremacy
• The State of Union (Yoga) Address Series
• How the practice of yoga allows us to dig deeper and develop more compassion
• Our relationship with the earth
• Practices to deep our relationship with the earth and ancestors

You can learn more about Shankari on her website, and be sure to check out her State of Union (Yoga) project.

Podcast music by Charles Kurtz

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