Hey everyone, my name is Rosie and I'm one of the new hosts of Radio Headspace.

I'm an author and a yoga meditation teacher and my new episodes are debuting February of next year.

I can't wait to share them with you.

In the meantime, I'd like to let you know about a new show from Headspace Studios called Dear Headspace.

It's a call and advice show where Headspace teachers answer questions each week about anything and everything.

We talk about family, relationships, mindfulness and so much more.

You can find Dear Headspace on the Headspace app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening.

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Greetings. My name is Kaisanga and I welcome you this Wednesday to Radio Headspace.

So needless to say, I am very passionate about mindfulness and meditation and their benefits for just living day to day.

I will never forget the first time I attended a mindfulness retreat.

Ironically, I was in a space of anticipating and expecting wonderful and great experiences to occur.

There are about 50 to 100 people at this particular retreat.

So it was a pretty larger treat. What I remember noticing immediately was how few people of color were present.

And what I was really shocked at was how I was the only black guy in the room, the only one.

I remember walking around the room just looking and looking.

If someone was to ask me what I was doing, I would have said, I'm looking for black people.

Now the retreat turned out to be absolutely fabulous.

But thinking about that experience reminded me of an inquiry that a headspace member recently sent my way.

They stated that they deal with feelings of helplessness due to racism and asked if I had any tips for BIPOC on how best to approach a situation with mindfulness when we experience racism.

This sickness of racism is something we've been dealing with for hundreds of years now and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

I can imagine that this feeling of helplessness is probably also accompanied by feelings of anger, frustration, rage and exhaustion.

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