“I feel like when we gather to sing–when I call it like a little bubble of a universe–to me it’s like, we have to know what it feels like to then know how to bring it in the greater bubbles, the greater ripples until it becomes something that we know how to feel as an entire global community.” -Shireen Amini Continue reading LESSON IS LOVE PODCAST S1E8: Feeling Into the Possibility of a Different World | Shireen Amini →

“For me when I think of consent, particularly black bodies and animals and touch and the violations that have been historically in place and how we’re finding new language and new ways to be together, I feel like the question I often have is: can we slow down and acknowledge what’s happened? Can we see all the levels of choice that are given to folks, and all the ways that choice is not given to folks?” -Aaron Johnson  Continue reading Lesson is Love Podcast S1E7: Tender Touch, Practice vs Performance, and The Skill of Tracking | Aaron Johnson →

“We are whole mind, body, soul beings. And so to just do therapy with the frontal part of the brain is doing the rest of the body a disservice. It’s doing the rest of your healing process a disservice. And not saying that for some people, traditional talk therapy might be their thing–and I love it for you–and our bodies hold so much valuable information as well, and I think it’s important to acknowledge the messages that our bodies hold too.” -Damon Silas Continue reading Lesson is Love Podcast S1E6: Tapping, Embodied Healing Practices, and The Value of Re-Membering | Damon Silas →

“How might I take as good of care of myself as I took care of [my dog] Lily? How might I give myself as much grace as I gave her?” -Lisa Moreno  Continue reading Lesson is Love Podcast S1E5: Collective Culture, Systems Change and Choosing Ourselves | Lisa Moreno →

“We should always be our own safest person; it would be really alarming if we were not. But creating that safety takes some work. I know so many people do not have safety with themselves. If I had a mission that would be it, to just help people be safer with themselves.’” -Karen Faith  Continue reading Lesson is Love Podcast S1E4: How To Be With Every Part of Yourself | Karen Faith →

*Content warnings: mentions of African diaspora slavery at 13:35-14:50 and 36:27-37:25, the Holocaust at 19:00-21:00, and CSA at 25:35-26:00*

“This is why these things are happening, because it’s only through the embodiment of these knowings do you carry the wisdom as an elder. And so the song came through: ‘Move at the speed of trust and breathe…what kind of elder do you want to be?’” -Alexandra “Ahlay” Blakely Continue reading Lesson is Love Podcast S1E3: Practicing Grief and Practicing Pleasure | Alexandra ”Ahlay” Blakely →

“I felt like I was out of control and I didn’t want anybody else to think I was out of control. So that was just young Justin not being comfortable with: ‘I don’t know.’ Just being comfortable with, ‘this dog sometimes does stupid stuff and it’s not my fault, it’s something we should be working through together.'” -Justin Farren Continue reading Lesson is Love Podcast S1E2: It’s OK to Not Know (Yet) | Justin Farren →

“I love songs that will give me the emotional reality of something I want to live into, so that I can feel it present tense and anchor that experience…and hold that experience as irrefutable proof of: ‘it’s possible to be there. It’s possible to get there.’” -David Wilcox Continue reading Lesson is Love Podcast S1E1: Emotional Balance is as Easy as Riding a Unicycle | David Wilcox →