We Heal Together
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Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection
Shambhala Publications04/11/2023Pages: 224Size: 5.5 x 8.5ISBN: 9781645471073DetailsA hopeful, wise, and practical guide to help us move into spaces of individual and collective healing, community, and relationship building—with practices to shed our isolation, connect, and thrive.
In times of isolation, heartbreak, and brokenness, reaching out to each other, being in conversation, finding ways to connect with compassion and openness can help us heal and thrive. This powerful, positive guide coaxes us to go beyond our individual and collective grief and courageously re-enter and reclaim our sense of community—which then further strengthens our spiritual practice.
Through spiritual teachings drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, mindfulness practices, rituals, resources, and journaling prompts in each chapter, Michelle Cassandra Johnson shows us how we can heal and facilitate healing; reclaim what it means to hold space and build community; find joy; connect to and summon support from our ancestors; connect with nature to strengthen and restore ourselves; and love, alchemize, dream, and conjure in community.
Examples of practices include journaling on what community means to you; meditation with a ritual object; progressive muscle relaxation; Yoga Nidra; and many more—all adapted for use alone or in a group. Includes simple, evocative line drawings by Vashon Island, WA-artist, Ivan Moy.ExtrasAlso available as an audiobook! Listen to a sample here.
RelatedCheck items to add to the cart orAuthor BioMICHELLE CASSANDRA JOHNSON is a social justice warrior, author, dismantling racism trainer, empath, yoga teacher and practitioner, and an intuitive healer. With over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work and working with clients as a licensed clinical social worker, Johnson has a deep understanding of how trauma impacts the mind, body, spirit, and heart. She has led Dismantling Racism Trainings with large corporations, small nonprofits, and community groups, including the ACLU-WA, Duke University, Google, This American Life, The Center for Equity and Inclusion, Eno River Unitarian Universalist Church, Lululemon, and many others. She teaches workshops nationwide.Praise"Michelle Johnson offers her decades of experience, her listening spirit, and her open heart to this work. This book offers us tangible ways to act on our deep longing to hold each other and be held in transformation. This book lets us live inside a basic truth: we need each other." —Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Dub: Finding Ceremony
"This book is potent medicine, a balm for our times of division and disconnection. I am so grateful Michelle has offered this gift of transformative and healing practices. She is a brilliant teacher and compassionate healer." —Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times
"Useful, practical, and inspiring, We Heal Together will become a classic for change making and community building in all spiritual and secular spaces." —Susanna Barkataki, author of Embrace Yoga's Roots
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