Michelle Cassandra Johnson on Integrating Spirituality and Activism [episode 138]

Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist and intuitive healer now based out of Winston-Salem. Her work uniquely blends spirituality with social justice training as a holistic approach to collective healing. Michelle’s book, Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World provides insight into the construct of white supremacy and guidance on how to dismantle it on an individual and community level.

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Making space for daily rituals
  • Cultivating sacred space and ritual objects
  • Shifting roles to make space for spirituality in everyday life
  • The construct of racism as a facilitator of oppression
  • Channeling ancestral guidance to move through the unknown
  • What happens when we create space to breathe
  • Devotion to self-care and justice
  • Spiritual practice in activist spaces
  • Workaholism as a white supremacist cultural value
  • Transitioning out of a scarcity mindset
  • The cultural scheme of blackness
  • Michelle’s book, Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World
  • Michelle’s personal vision for the world
  • How white people can call out and change white supremacy
  • Spiritual bypassing as an excuse to sidestep psychological wounds
  • Acknowledging shadow as a part of love and light

Bonus! Michelle talks about her spirit calling to create grief ceremony in this week’s secret episode! Michelle also pulls a 3-card reading from her TRANSVERSE Grief Tarot deck.

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