73. We Need a Secretary of Yoga with Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

If yoga means union, if we as practitioners aspire to see the interconnectedness of all, then how could it not be political practice? Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts’ most recent research explores the lived experiences of Black teen yoga practitioners and their use of yoga and storytelling for critical identity development. Today’s conversation doesn’t shy away from suffering, liberation, power, and privilege — and a call for a new cabinet-level position.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.
0:20.5	We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bridge. an online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.
0:27.3	We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together.
0:36.0	This is the commune podcast where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy, connected, and purpose-filled life.
0:38.6	You can check out our courses, our community, and everything we do at Onecommun.com. I've just popped back through the other side of the
0:45.7	wardrobe to sunny L.A. from a snowy Vancouver, where I spent a couple of days at the Lululemon
0:51.3	Leadership Conference, an interesting event, mostly dedicated to building corporate
0:56.5	culture around the concept of human potential. On the show today, I am thrilled to host my friend
1:03.3	Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts, who is also a global yoga ambassador for Lulu Lemon. Chelsea received her
1:10.4	PhD from Emory University in 2014.
1:14.5	Relying on ethnography and narrative inquiry as her primary research methods, Chelsea explores
1:20.5	the lived experiences of individuals across multiple communities. Her most recent research
1:26.9	utilizes the lived experiences of black
1:29.9	teen yoga practitioners who use yoga and storytelling as mediums for critical literacy development.
1:37.8	Chelsea is also a certified yoga teacher who studied under the guidance of her beloved teacher,
1:43.1	Ma Jaya.
1:49.1	Chelsea has also completed two additional yoga trainings in Atlanta and New York, specifically for instructors who work with children and teens.
1:52.5	And it was during Chelsea's most recent training on restorative justice at the University
1:57.4	of Wisconsin that she began making connections between the value of storytelling,
2:02.8	critical literacy development, and yoga. Funded by grants from Emory University and Spelman College,
2:09.4	Chelsea founded a yoga literature and art camp for teen girls in 2013. On the show today, we discuss
2:16.5	the meaning of yoga, the importance of re-instilling
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