Thatched Roof, No Walls
Thatched Roof, No Walls
What are the consequences when teachers carry our minds to one place (to work, the classroom, our desks), our bodies to another (to the gym, yoga studio, our couch), our spirits to another (to church, synagogue, mosque, mountains), our psychic healing to another (to the couch, the bed, vacations), and our activism to another (to prisons, borders, the streets)? Students sense and feel these splits. They are trying to learn amid these splits. A pedagogy of tenderness—embodied techniques of teaching that allow us to hold in our minds more complexity, paradox, and community than previously thought possible—requires new bridge work where contemplative practitioners, activists, trauma specialists, and feminist teachers listen to each other. Such bridge building is essential as we create ways of teaching that move us beyond individualism, consumerism, and militarism.
Keywords: Multiracial alliance building, Indigenous studies, decolonizing yoga, intersectionality, liberatory education, embodiment, spiritual bypass
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