Anneke Lucas - “Abuse of Power”
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.4 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Anneke Lucas was sold into a child sex-trafficking network at the age of six. Now she teaches yoga in prisons through her organization, Liberation Prison Yoga. J sits down with Anneke to talk about her journey of healing trauma and expanding consciousness, being groped by Pattabhi Jois, the Jivamukti scandal, a panel discussion on power in the yoga world, trauma sensitivity training, and how to create safer spaces and better support for victims. The conversation touches upon difficult topics, listener discretion is advised.
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hello, everyone. My name is Jay Brown. I want to welcome you to Yoga Talks podcast. Thank you for taking some time to give us a listen. |
| 0:22.0 | I really appreciate it. |
| 0:27.8 | Today's talk is with Anika Lucas from Liberation Prison Yoga. |
| 0:32.9 | And I want to warn you, it's a very intense talk. |
| 0:37.1 | Perhaps the most intense I've ever had. |
| 0:48.4 | Part of the reason is just Anika's story, which is incredibly powerful and almost unbelievable, as you'll hear. |
| 0:53.4 | I was really surprised. |
| 0:55.4 | I mean, I didn't know a lot about her, |
| 0:59.0 | and I had heard some things, |
| 1:01.9 | and she really opened up and gave a lot of intimate details |
| 1:05.2 | about very traumatic things that happened to her. |
| 1:11.3 | And another reason why it was so intense is that I personally was in a very fragile state when we |
| 1:20.7 | recorded. |
| 1:22.5 | For one, I was in a lot of pain, which those of you've been listening to the podcast recently |
| 1:27.0 | know that I've been having this problem which those of you've been listening to the podcast recently know that I've |
| 1:28.4 | been having this problem with pain and I've been sharing with you about that. |
| 1:33.0 | Maybe I should just take a quick moment to give you an update there. |
| 1:36.2 | I just want to let everybody know that I am continuing to get better. |
| 1:40.0 | I have less pain this week than I did last week. |
| 1:44.0 | I still have the pain, but it is, as I said, |
| 1:47.7 | moving in a good track. The one thing I want to say is that it does relate to the talk I had |
| 1:53.1 | with Neil Pearson, if you guys listen to that. I have clearly noticed that there is a relationship between my pain level and when my pain's going |
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