Faith Hunter, "You can't be spiritual and not stand for something."
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, I’m joined by Washington, DC yoga studio owner and world-traveling yoga teacher Faith Hunter. You may remember Faith from episode 37 where she shared her story of coping with the loss of her brother. I wanted to check in with Faith to find out how she's doing, to ask her about her new projects, and to get her take on how the white yoga community can be more actively anti-racist and support the BIPOC community.
A few things we cover:
* Faith talks about her new online platform, Embrace Om and her new talk show, Spiritually Fly Lifestyle
* We talk about the tendency to bypass or ignore the problem of racism within the yoga community
* She shares how yoga studios can take steps toward supporting the BIPOC community
* We talk about the importance of representation, inclusive language, and collaboration
This is the first of many conversations I hope we have within our community.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti, and this is episode 198 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:04.4 | Today my guest is Faith Hunter. |
| 0:10.9 | Faith is a Washington, D. yoga and meditation teacher. She owns a studio there called |
| 0:17.3 | Embrace Yoga. She just moved that studio model online to her own live streaming and on-demand class platform |
| 0:28.0 | called Embrace Ohm. |
| 0:29.8 | And she just started a video talk show on her YouTube channel. |
| 0:33.3 | So we talked about that today. |
| 0:35.3 | You may remember that I've had faith on the show before. |
| 0:38.6 | She was on episode 79. |
| 0:42.1 | And on that episode, it's really beautiful if you want to go back and listen to it. |
| 0:46.2 | She generously shared the story of losing her brother and how she coped with that grief for a very long time. |
| 0:55.0 | So I was scrolling through Instagram and maybe like 10 days ago actually probably about two weeks ago by the time this |
| 1:06.3 | episode comes out I got to faith and she had an IG TV video linked from her |
| 1:11.4 | feed and I watched it and it was just her speaking about her |
| 1:16.2 | experience of what's going on in the world right now with the protests demanding |
| 1:22.0 | justice for George Floyd and for more equality for |
| 1:27.9 | black people and brown people in our nation and as usual I was just struck by her ability to express so much so genuinely and also in such a clear way. |
| 1:43.0 | So I reached out to her and I said, |
| 1:45.0 | hey, you want to come back on the pod? |
| 1:46.0 | And she said, sure. |
| 1:48.0 | So we talk about her new projects today |
| 1:50.0 | and then she also shares some thoughts on how Yoga Studios and teachers can be better allies |
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