Speaker 1: Welcome to Woke a F with me Danielle Moody. If
Speaker 1: you've ever listened to me before, and if you have not, welcome,
Speaker 1: then you know that I'm all about getting you woke
Speaker 1: and keeping you woke. This week, I want to get
Speaker 1: you yoke. What does yoke mean? Queer body positive yoga
Speaker 1: instructor Jessamine Stanley writes all about it in her new
Speaker 1: book Yoke, My Yoga of Self Acceptance, and she joined
Speaker 1: me on Woke a F Daily to talk all about
Speaker 1: it and hopefully introduce the concept to your life. You
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Speaker 1: you enjoy my chat with Jessimin Stanley and find the
Speaker 1: yoke in your life. How do you explain what yoke means?
Speaker 1: What is it like to practice that love and acceptance
Speaker 1: every day? Like? How do you start your day so
Speaker 1: that you are grounded in the right space? My goodness? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for happing. And what I will
Speaker 1: say in response to what is yoke? Yoke is like
Speaker 1: my American millennial translation of the word yoga yoga meaning
Speaker 1: you mean bringing together, and yoke is that it's just
Speaker 1: a union. It's bringing together all the different pieces of
Speaker 1: yourself and whether that be good or bad or really
Speaker 1: I think more specifically and more necessarily the ugly seeing
Speaker 1: every single piece of yourself and not trying to fix
Speaker 1: it or make it different or try to be good
Speaker 1: or not trying to to categorize anything, really just saying
Speaker 1: this is who I am, and I'm going to accept
Speaker 1: every single piece of myself. And that is what I
Speaker 1: have felt that my yoga practice, honestly has always been.
Speaker 1: But I think that yoga, when it's talking about in
Speaker 1: the mainstream, is always categorized as fitness at this point,
Speaker 1: and whenever we talk about it, it's always like yoga
Speaker 1: poses and sequences and like it's not about this connection
Speaker 1: to the truth of yourself and really needing to accept
Speaker 1: every single facet of yourself. And I think of yoking
Speaker 1: as a moment by moment journey that is always evolving,
Speaker 1: and that with time just becomes more complex and more decadent, honestly,
Speaker 1: but just becomes more the journey becomes more intense. And
Speaker 1: I think that on a daily basis. There are many
Speaker 1: different types of practices that I that are a part
Speaker 1: of how I am able to show up. And honestly,
Speaker 1: my yoga practice in and of itself is really how
Speaker 1: I'm able to show up in this world. It's how
Speaker 1: I'm able to be present, especially when the going gets tough,
Speaker 1: and how I'm able to deal with the constant rocking,
Speaker 1: the fact that, as Octavia says, God has changed, that
Speaker 1: there's always change coming. Really being present to that. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of different every day, and I'm really bad
Speaker 1: at keeping the same schedule every single day. I have
Speaker 1: to be able to just let my ship flow with
Speaker 1: whatever is happening in my day on that particular day today,
Speaker 1: for instance, So I'm transitioning to living full time in
Speaker 1: an RV with my partner, and so we are in
Speaker 1: this big period of just like we're in flux in
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways. And so this morning I
Speaker 1: drove to my office in Durham from staying in a
Speaker 1: kind of remote place in southern Virginia, and so and
Speaker 1: so I needed to wake up really early and just
Speaker 1: actually like plug in immediately. And a huge thing for
Speaker 1: me with that is just being able to feel water
Speaker 1: and feel a connection to the natural world, and that
Speaker 1: might mean drinking water. For me today, it especially meant
Speaker 1: bathing in water and just really feeling I was blessed
Speaker 1: to be able to bathe outside today and so being
Speaker 1: able to just be in nature and remember that like
Speaker 1: this is what I am. I'm a creature of this earth.
Speaker 1: I'm not above this earth. I am of the mud,
Speaker 1: I am of the water, the grass. That being able
Speaker 1: to actually remember that and not just be like a
Speaker 1: robot it would be in a box, Holliday, that feels pretty.
Speaker 1: That's not important for me today. You know. I can
Speaker 1: tell you that so many lessons that I have learned
Speaker 1: deeply over the course of this pandemic, but really about
Speaker 1: myself has been understanding when I feel out of flow.
Speaker 1: And what has happened is that I have finally learned
Speaker 1: like what works for me to get into alignment, which
Speaker 1: has been a daily meditation practice and daily walking that
Speaker 1: takes me out, you know, walking on the piers because
Speaker 1: I need to be by water and be outside and
Speaker 1: whether that is for you know, the luxury of two
Speaker 1: hours or if it's for twenty minutes, like I need
Speaker 1: that connection. I used to joke and tell people that
Speaker 1: I was a plant, right, Like, if you can see
Speaker 1: in the background, you see all of my plants. I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm a plant, right, like I need light,
Speaker 1: and I need the water and the air. Right. That's
Speaker 1: it's so bad, is that it's like we are plants literally,
Speaker 1: just like how a tree grows, just like how a
Speaker 1: flower blooms. That is the human experience and we need exactly.
Speaker 1: They are incredible teachers, legit nothing. I always think about
Speaker 1: my plants as being like they are showing me how
Speaker 1: to live. They're showing me how to weather the storm,
Speaker 1: how to get what I need when I need it,
Speaker 1: and how to keep quiet stick, stick to the ground,
Speaker 1: keep quiet anyway, please continue. I also one of the
Speaker 1: reasons why I had been following you and had been
Speaker 1: introduced to you and your work also was this sense
Speaker 1: of feeling so out of whack. Right. I came from
Speaker 1: the school of physical fitness, where I was taught to
Speaker 1: beat my body into submission, right instead of loving my body.
Speaker 1: And I've been talking about this un woke app as
Speaker 1: we are, you know, going on this journey of what
Speaker 1: it means to live consciously, right, not just for the
Speaker 1: politics of rage, which is where my work stems from.
Speaker 1: But also what does it mean to be in a
Speaker 1: state of rest and alignment? But what does it really
Speaker 1: mean to love yourself? And for me, exercise, right, the
Speaker 1: practice of yoga, the practice of any type of exercise,
Speaker 1: had always been about submission, submission into the pose, submission
Speaker 1: into the work. And I want to know for you, like,
Speaker 1: when did it become apparent that it was about the breath,
Speaker 1: that it was about the flow, and that it wasn't
Speaker 1: about the contortion, right, the contortion in our real lives, right,
Speaker 1: like in our everyday lives being contorted as black women
Speaker 1: into other people's boxes and images. But then also the
Speaker 1: contorting of yourself in this practice of yoga that became
Speaker 1: so glamorized for the complexity of the poses as opposed
Speaker 1: to the simplicity of the breath. M this is a
Speaker 1: word that you were serving for real? Like I literally, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so short answer is that not right off the back,
Speaker 1: not at all, Like I definitely did not understand my
Speaker 1: yoga practice as being something that I was experiencing on
Speaker 1: a spiritual level at all in the beginning. I very
Speaker 1: much understood it as a physical practice, and I think
Speaker 1: that that allowed me to feel as though sharing the
Speaker 1: yoga postures and the way that I practiced them, that
Speaker 1: that was the way that I wanted to share my
Speaker 1: yoga practice was like, yeah, this is I like yoga.
Speaker 1: I like moving my body. But even after my teacher training,
Speaker 1: I would say that I still was not that invested
Speaker 1: in the connection to the breath. But at some point,
Speaker 1: I don't even know that it was like an exact
Speaker 1: moment of clarity, but at some point I realized that
Speaker 1: the breathing is really all that was necessary From the beginning,
Speaker 1: the breathing was all that mattered, and ultimately each posture
Speaker 1: is just an invitation to breathe more it's it's just
Speaker 1: another way to breathe. It doesn't even matter what the
Speaker 1: posture is ultimately like, because you can be in as
Speaker 1: long as you are alive, you are assuming a posture.
Speaker 1: So if you are breathing and you're practicing a posture,
Speaker 1: you're practicing like it's not it's all the same. And
Speaker 1: so this came definitely after years of practice, and it's
Speaker 1: something that I would say I am still awakening a
Speaker 1: truth that I am still awakening too at to this day,
Speaker 1: and I think that there's so much in the way
Speaker 1: that we as black women are told that we are
Speaker 1: allowed to show up in this world. And I think
Speaker 1: that we are often told that our value and our
Speaker 1: merit only extends as far as it matters to another
Speaker 1: human being. It's not about actually accepting or respecting or
Speaker 1: even seeing yourself as as a individual light. It's all
Speaker 1: about how you can be used by someone else. And
Speaker 1: I have I mean, I would say that I am
Speaker 1: still awakening to the ways in which I am through
Speaker 1: my own practice and through what I share with others,
Speaker 1: am still playing into that over and over again. And
Speaker 1: I think that is my yoga, that is my posture,
Speaker 1: that is that's where the breath it is necessary, that
Speaker 1: that is the work of this life, is to have
Speaker 1: that experience and to grow from there. And I don't
Speaker 1: think that. I think the part of acceptance is not
Speaker 1: looking for the final destination and not looking for not
Speaker 1: looking for a right answer, just saying this is just
Speaker 1: what it is, and this is where I am. I
Speaker 1: think that it's so weird to have a yoga practice that, honestly,
Speaker 1: I feel like the yoga that I was sold in
Speaker 1: the beginning was very much like the white man's yoga
Speaker 1: very much like this way of understanding spirituality that had
Speaker 1: been co signed by white supremacy. And it's very interesting
Speaker 1: how the durability of the truth of yoga that it
Speaker 1: would it would be able to survive even that that
Speaker 1: ultimately you are still You're still being offered an opportunity
Speaker 1: to accept every single part of it, even when it
Speaker 1: is shrouded in something else, even when it's been made
Speaker 1: to look like something else, it's still the truth is
Speaker 1: still there. And yeah, how do you come back the
Speaker 1: commercialization of yoga, right, the commodification, the capitalist aspect of it,
Speaker 1: while staying grounded in the essential purpose of it? Right
Speaker 1: like you are extraordinary in one in your ability to
Speaker 1: make something so expansive right that I feel like capitalism
Speaker 1: and the mainstream has very much narrowed right like yoga
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. I think the beauty of
Speaker 1: what you bring in your perspective and your ideology of
Speaker 1: yoga is more expansive. But how do you balance that
Speaker 1: with you know, the need to live right like, you know,
Speaker 1: the more success you have, right, the more that you
Speaker 1: also have to feed into this structure that is unbalanced
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. So how do you stay
Speaker 1: grounded in that. I don't. I don't think it. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I try as much as I can, I
Speaker 1: try not to combat anything. Honestly, I don't want to
Speaker 1: combat because I don't think that. I think the commodification
Speaker 1: of yoga is just it's false. It has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with what yoga actually is. And and I think
Speaker 1: that it fizzles out. It will it's a trend that
Speaker 1: will be gone, and that we worry about it because
Speaker 1: it's not real. I think that it is very, very
Speaker 1: hard though, this line of like wanting to wanting to
Speaker 1: make money so you can eat, and also at the
Speaker 1: same time not wanting to be a part of some
Speaker 1: fakeshit And I think that just accepting that that complicated
Speaker 1: line is even there, and not trying to rest on
Speaker 1: one side or the other, just accepting, like, this is
Speaker 1: where the hard spot is. That to me is the yoga,
Speaker 1: It is the reason for living the practice at all,
Speaker 1: and so that feels like a worthwhile expression of it,
Speaker 1: to be in acceptance of this hard thing that does
Speaker 1: not make sense. But I think that like for me,
Speaker 1: just trying to try to find a final answer or
Speaker 1: trying to corral in a one particular direction. It just
Speaker 1: ends up not it doesn't create a sense of fulfillment
Speaker 1: at all. But I think that it's so interesting to
Speaker 1: me now because there was this point some years ago
Speaker 1: where I thought about not posting on social media anymore
Speaker 1: because I felt like, I feel like social media asks
Speaker 1: the opposite of what yoga does. Social media says, look
Speaker 1: outside yourself for answers, always show me exactly, show me
Speaker 1: and care what other people think, and yoga is literally
Speaker 1: the exact opposite. It is like, look within yourself only
Speaker 1: if you can get away from other people and do
Speaker 1: not really be Actually it's not really get away from
Speaker 1: other people, but we can. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: in the weeds. But I think that for me, it
Speaker 1: ultimately comes down to the impact that it can have
Speaker 1: on the lives of other people to see someone being
Speaker 1: honest and authentic and actually living their truth and not
Speaker 1: trying to share any one particular idea, being problematic, being contradictory,
Speaker 1: like doing all of these things. It's so it's like
Speaker 1: anti capitalists ultimately like to just be complicated and to
Speaker 1: say that that is enough, because capitalism really is at
Speaker 1: its best when we believe that we need something from
Speaker 1: someone or something else. And so if you say, not
Speaker 1: only do I not need anything from anyone else, but
Speaker 1: I am complicated. I rest at the center of all
Speaker 1: these different intersections that can inspire other people to accept
Speaker 1: themselves as well. And that me feels like what the
Speaker 1: world is really it's more people just being messy and
Speaker 1: being problematic and doing saying the wrong thing and being
Speaker 1: open about the fact that they've said the wrong thing.
Speaker 1: Because now we're coming into this time where like now
Speaker 1: that people are finally more comfortable using the word racism
Speaker 1: and talking about it, there's this desire to like point
Speaker 1: a finger at everybody other than yourself and be like, well,
Speaker 1: everyone else is fucking up, but like look at look
Speaker 1: at and I'm like, you are doing just the same shit.
Speaker 1: It's literally everybody else. Like you have all the same
Speaker 1: companies just like everybody else, and being able to just
Speaker 1: there's so much power in that, and there's so much
Speaker 1: opportunity for healing. And I think that all of that
Speaker 1: that's what yoga really is. So when we talk about
Speaker 1: like the commodification and talking about like trends and honestly
Speaker 1: people work shipping handstands and like being obsessed with leggings
Speaker 1: and coconut water. All of these things are just not
Speaker 1: like which I love someone literally I love, but I
Speaker 1: love it. I could talk for hours about leggings. Sand
Speaker 1: is an incredible substance on which to practice yoga, like
Speaker 1: I feel it. But at the same time, it's like
Speaker 1: all of that is just kind of like it's window dressing.
Speaker 1: It will, it will pass the time. But the reality
Speaker 1: is that we have this incredible opportunity as a society
Speaker 1: to heal, and we can do that through our individual
Speaker 1: yoga practices, and I just I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunity there. Can you talk to us about the
Speaker 1: healing properties that yoga provides as intertwined with marijuana and
Speaker 1: the understanding too. I mean, this is like a multilayered
Speaker 1: question because I find that the more obviously, the more
Speaker 1: places that we'd finally becomes legal and decriminalized, the more
Speaker 1: I talk to black people, varied black people about you know,
Speaker 1: how they have smoked weed and how it has differed
Speaker 1: now right then when we were younger, that it is
Speaker 1: actually more of It's not so much an escape. It
Speaker 1: is really about a healing and connection and a slowing down, right,
Speaker 1: And like removing ourselves from the grind and these things.
Speaker 1: And so I do I want you to talk about
Speaker 1: the spiritualness and the connectedness of your practice with marijuana,
Speaker 1: which some find like some you know, like with anything else,
Speaker 1: will find issue with. But I believe that there is
Speaker 1: a true there there. How did that come about for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely Okay. So the thing about yoga
Speaker 1: and weed is that they have literally always gone together. Honestly,
Speaker 1: weed has gone with every single spiritual practice, like indigenous
Speaker 1: spiritual practice in for time and memoriam, because human beings
Speaker 1: use this plant to be able to cleanse from the
Speaker 1: inside out so that you are balancing and regulating your
Speaker 1: stem and you're also I think if it's like sweeping
Speaker 1: out the cobwebs, it's like there's so much that happens
Speaker 1: in our life that is painful and it's difficult, and
Speaker 1: that we don't need to hang onto. And cannabis creates
Speaker 1: a world where you don't have to you don't have
Speaker 1: to hang onto things that are unnecessary, and it is
Speaker 1: a deeply spiritual practice and something again that like has
Speaker 1: literally always been used in tandem with one another. But
Speaker 1: I did not know that when I first started practicing yoga,
Speaker 1: or when I first started smoking weed, and like, I
Speaker 1: felt a lot of shame about smoking weed, like in
Speaker 1: I mean on a very deep level. And even now
Speaker 1: I think that that's so much of my own advocacy.
Speaker 1: It's coming from a place of wanting to accept from
Speaker 1: myself that I don't need to feel shame about using cannabis.
Speaker 1: And I think that the way that they work together
Speaker 1: is that specifically, thinking about yoga, like when you're practicing,
Speaker 1: when you're doing a really hard physical yoga practice, there
Speaker 1: it is so easy to be distracted by how hard
Speaker 1: the practice is, and cannabis makes it much easier to
Speaker 1: endure the difficulty of whatever the posture is, whatever the seriences.
Speaker 1: It makes it where you can just be present, you
Speaker 1: just get into it. It's like, yeah, this is hard
Speaker 1: and it sucks and that's okay. And honestly, that is
Speaker 1: so much of why black people have used cannabis for
Speaker 1: so long, as to be able to just deal with
Speaker 1: this world that we live in that does not want
Speaker 1: us to be whole and to be fully to be free,
Speaker 1: and it's an extension of that just being able to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is hard and it is a lot,
Speaker 1: but I can do it and I can bear it.
Speaker 1: And I think the same can be said for like
Speaker 1: understanding the practice is something that is more than physical
Speaker 1: when you think about your mental body and your emotional
Speaker 1: body being able to have that same application saying like,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is a lot right now. There's
Speaker 1: a lot going on for me mentally, and it's okay.
Speaker 1: There doesn't need to be less. It's okay that there's
Speaker 1: a lot and I can hold it and I can
Speaker 1: handle it. So like I had not known that, I
Speaker 1: didn't know about the thousands of years old relationship that
Speaker 1: yoga and we'd have. I didn't know about spirituality, and
Speaker 1: we'd just always haven't been linked. But when I first
Speaker 1: started practicing yoga, it was when I first started practicing
Speaker 1: yoga regularly, it was around the same time that I
Speaker 1: started smoking weed regularly, and I would just like always
Speaker 1: hot box my car right before going into the studio,
Speaker 1: and I just had so much I mean, talk about stigma.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want up in here smell.
Speaker 1: I'm like everybody knows I'm walking in Like, let me
Speaker 1: breathe myself real quick, like made somebody doesn't know, No
Speaker 1: everybody knows, and but I got to this place of like,
Speaker 1: I just don't care because I feel so good. It
Speaker 1: just makes me feel. It makes the practice. So there's
Speaker 1: a level of opening that can happen when you are
Speaker 1: not clinging on to things that you don't need to
Speaker 1: cling on too. And I mean maybe this is just
Speaker 1: me as virgo rising, like always wanting to have a
Speaker 1: list and check it twice, but like being able to
Speaker 1: let go of that list and just be in the
Speaker 1: present moment. Game changer, complete game changer. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: a great funny. I'm a Virgo rising as well. Oh
Speaker 1: I would. I'm like very interesting. But no, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think that there is so much to the letting go.
Speaker 1: And I've been having this conversation, you know, as we
Speaker 1: came off of Juneteenth, as we had just had you know,
Speaker 1: America's you know independence, whatever that means, this practice of
Speaker 1: understanding what it means to be free, right, like what
Speaker 1: freedom actually means, and you know, and for black people
Speaker 1: in particular, Like I was talking about how our ancestors
Speaker 1: in bondage created ritual understood themselves as free even while shackled.
Speaker 1: And so what does it mean to like live in
Speaker 1: this oppressive system, this state that doesn't want to see us,
Speaker 1: that doesn't want us to be free. What does freedom
Speaker 1: look like? It doesn't look like getting permission from other
Speaker 1: people to exist. It looks like deciding that I'm going
Speaker 1: to show up as who I am right And like
Speaker 1: that's it. Literally, it means saying that I was free
Speaker 1: the day out for that I am free, that that
Speaker 1: is inside of me. There is a light that shines
Speaker 1: so bright. Nobody can hold that. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: I am a physical bondage, nobody can hold that. And
Speaker 1: I feel so much gratitude to our ancestors for enduring
Speaker 1: and exhibiting the way that they have exactly what it
Speaker 1: is to be free. That no matter what happens, no
Speaker 1: matter who tries to someone can think that they hold
Speaker 1: a bill of sale on your name, but they don't
Speaker 1: own you. They don't own you, they don't know anything.
Speaker 1: That there is a power inside of each of us
Speaker 1: that again capitalism, white supremacy, they prop off of us.
Speaker 1: Not believing this, So like that's the whole point is
Speaker 1: that you do not feel this way. But there is
Speaker 1: a light that shines so bright it cannot be held,
Speaker 1: It cannot be contained by anyone else, and just being
Speaker 1: able to remember that is the most important thing because
Speaker 1: there's i think for everybody a moment coming in your
Speaker 1: life where you feel like you are not free, like
Speaker 1: you are not like you are in chained, enslaved, that
Speaker 1: you are not able to be express yourself fully, and
Speaker 1: ultimately it's the mind that is holding that. And if
Speaker 1: you can say, I know I'm free, I know I'm here,
Speaker 1: i know I'm present, But it does take I mean,
Speaker 1: it's something cannabis helps dramatically. It makes it makes such
Speaker 1: a difference. And it's always very interesting to me whenever
Speaker 1: people are anti weed, when they are not comfortable talking
Speaker 1: about it, because I'm like, yeah, I can see that
Speaker 1: all of these things are related. Like if you don't
Speaker 1: feel like you're free and you don't smoke weed, that's
Speaker 1: why these things are connected to one another. So it's
Speaker 1: all okay everything. I think that it just makes the
Speaker 1: makes the advocacy more important. It makes the work of
Speaker 1: each of us so much more important. Yeah, and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm curious what your son and moon's signs are. My
Speaker 1: son is a Scorpio and I'm a Leo. Absolutely, I
Speaker 1: love that. Oh, I love that. Oh you better come grout.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful balance on that. Very interesting. Do you
Speaker 1: have a like a air sign placement in a in
Speaker 1: a high like in a prominent planet? Do you do
Speaker 1: you have like a Gemini or a or a Libra
Speaker 1: or a um. I'm wondering. I'm like, I'm like, let
Speaker 1: me pull up. We don't become post our friends later. Actually,
Speaker 1: I'm always curious everybody chart. I love that, like, let
Speaker 1: me look at let me look at my chat reel
Speaker 1: because I you know again, these are things that I
Speaker 1: fully and totally connect you believe in? Yeah? Is all
Speaker 1: of that? Yes? Libra is in Pluto? Oh interesting? Okay,
Speaker 1: heard kind of far out. What year were you born?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I am or something? No, that's so cute.
Speaker 1: Seventy nine, seventy nine okay, heard very interesting Libra? Very interesting? Okay, cool, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't mind. Great, I would love to. I would
Speaker 1: love to the last question that I will ask you
Speaker 1: is this, you know, what does it mean to live consciously?
Speaker 1: For for you? What is what does that mean? Because
Speaker 1: this is again, this is where I'm trying to take woke.
Speaker 1: Af was from this place of political rage to also
Speaker 1: understanding what it just means to be conscious, right, And
Speaker 1: consciousness doesn't isn't just about being conscious of everything that
Speaker 1: is wrong, right, and this is this is where I'm
Speaker 1: trying to move to that. It also means being conscious
Speaker 1: of joy, being conscious of gratitude, being conscious of when
Speaker 1: you are feeling low vibration or high vibration, conscious of
Speaker 1: who you're sharing your energy with. So I'm curious as
Speaker 1: to what that means for you man so many different things.
Speaker 1: I think that consciousness is just being present for me personally,
Speaker 1: It's just like just being present to all that is
Speaker 1: and saying that, not ruling anything out, existing without barrier,
Speaker 1: without boundary, to just be and to feel all of it,
Speaker 1: not just the things that feel fun or or that
Speaker 1: look pretty when they're written down, the things that especially
Speaker 1: the things that look ugly, that feel hard and confusing,
Speaker 1: and just being really, really comfortable with the fact that
Speaker 1: this moment is fleeting, that the past is gone, that
Speaker 1: the future is always coming, and that all that really
Speaker 1: matters is what is happening in this exact moment. Self
Speaker 1: acceptance is a journey, not a destination. It is a practice.
Speaker 1: Yoga is one way in which we can get on
Speaker 1: that journey and stay on course. But even if yoga
Speaker 1: is not a part of your personal path, I do
Speaker 1: hope that Jessiman's teachings and her concept of yoking was
Speaker 1: able to touch or even awaken something inside you to
Speaker 1: help you on whatever form of your journey you're on.
Speaker 1: Part of why I do this podcast is for us
Speaker 1: to come together in pursuit of wokeness and and also
Speaker 1: work on bettering our yokeness. If you want to join
Speaker 1: the woke a F nation, you can support me on
Speaker 1: Patreon right now at patreon dot com slash woke f
Speaker 1: every day where you're having new conversations about the state
Speaker 1: of our world in all of its facets, and I
Speaker 1: would love for you to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: find your yoke, get woke, and stay woke as fuck.