Leaning Back, Accounting for Legacy: Reckoning with Conditioning and Seeking Deep Transformation with Kerri Kelly
In this second episode, we have the incredible Kerri Kelly joining us for an in-depth conversation on somatics, embodied transformation, and the importance of deep reckoning and personal growth.
Kerri shares her own journey of learning and unlearning, reflecting on the recent fires in Maui and her/our complicity in extractive tourism and colonialism.
This episode is rich with insights and invites us to embrace transformation, embrace complexity, and cultivate joy in the face of adversity.
Kerri Kelly
Kerri is the founder of CTZNWELL, a movement that is democratizing wellbeing for all. A descendant of generations of firemen and first responders, Kerri has dedicated her life to kicking down doors and fighting for justice. She’s been teaching yoga for over 20 years and is known for making waves in the wellness industry by challenging norms, disrupting systems and mobilizing people to act.
A community organizer, wellness activist and author of the book American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal, Kerri is recognized across communities for her inspired work to bridge transformational practice with social justice. She’s been instrumental in translating the practices of wellbeing into social and political action, working in collaboration with community organizers, spiritual leaders and policy makers to transform our systems from the inside out.
Her leadership has inspired a movement that is actively organizing around issues of racial and economic justice, healthcare as a human right, civic engagement and more. Kerri is a powerful facilitator, TED speaker and is the host of the prominent podcast, CTZN. You can learn more about her work at kerrikelly.co and ctznwell.org.
Connect with Kerri
@kkellyyoga on instagram
Resources from the episode
Kerri Kelly, American Detox: The Myth of Wellness and How We Can Truly Heal*. North Atlantic Books.
Vanessa Machado de Oliveira*, Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism, North Atlantic Press
Bobbie Harro, Cycle of Socialization and Cycle of Liberation
Article: Somatic Approach to Sites of Shaping
Cynthia Occelli, “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”
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