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Exploring Catalan Independence (Watch Documentary): Spain’s Secret Conflict

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✨ "THIS ONLY HAPPENS IN THE US...WE ARE NOT LIKE THAT IN THIS COUNTRY" Seriously?!? This is another thing that is f-ing me off right now. I hear it on the UK & Spanish media, like it's a problem "over there, not here". Look closer to home... . It comes in the form of... People clutching their bags when you sit next to them, being told that the only way you made money is because of illegal or negative activity (example: an estate agent and lawyer in Barcelona told me I could afford it from arms deals just because I am half African!), it's assuming things about you just because of your natural hair while touching it like you are a zoo animal, it's treating people according to the box of where they come from (box level of the US/UK, another box if they are EU-Person of colour and another box if you are Caribbean/South American/African), it's being harassed because they think you are a sex worker because apparently all women of colour are, making fun of your name because it sounds "too foreign", people telling you that you are not really from "this country"/"where are you *really* from?" (I get this in Spain all the time as African-Spanish Uk resident, I know my Black-British friends get that too), it's being pulled over at the airport to make sure you are legally allowed to get in or that you don't have drugs on you while others walk pass looking at you like you are guilty... Too many more things to list - Point is, it's still very real. . Normally I use my hands for my healing therapy work and yoga mudras, this time it is to make a stand and send healing to everyone during these transformational times. Sharing these things is what creates change, even if it makes many people uncomfortable to hear. . This is NOT just a US thing. Silence is part of the problem, call BS out when you see it. Being pro-Black and anti-racist does mean you are anti-White - It is against a system that consciously/unconsciously allows for these sorts of things to carry on. And saying that it is not our problem because "it doesn't happen in this country" is an excuse. #blacklivesmatter

✨5 QUALITIES I ADMIRE IN A THERAPIST, YOGA TEACHER, MENTOR & COACH... Being part of and observing this world of expanding holistic business in the last 15 years has shown me a lot! . . TRULY HOLDING SPACE FOR THE OTHER. The ability to listen and share without making it about our own story. I remember one of my teachers saying that "when you enter your therapy/yoga room, leave your stuff at the door and just be truly present with the people you are working with". In other words, it's not about ME, it's about holding space for the other to just BE. Listen. Clients/students can spot this a mile off! . NOT BEING AFRAID TO REMAIN A STUDENT. This is a fast-growing space, where information (especially in the field of science studies) is out there When anyone says they have all the answers, its the ego talking - this is a red flag for me‼️‼️ I trust teachers/therapists who are open to questions and also open to saying that they don't know about something - while being happy to learn from other teachers/therapists and even their students/clients too. With this approach, there is an amazing exchange and trust that we can build with our clients/students. We remain a student who is open to evolving. . CONSCIOUS COLLABORATIONS & MARKETING. I value working with people who are honest about their intentions in working with you. Some people still think it's ok to approach someone to "make friends" when they only wanted to get connected to your studio owner, build their own email list with your client base etc. Honest intentions matter to build a 2-way connection. I find these people are no longer around when you don't have anything to offer them except for a genuine cup of tea & chat. . CONTINUE LAST 2 POINTS IN COMMENTS 👇👇👇. #yoga #meditation #yogateacherlife #business #coaching #mentoring #mindbodysoul #business #holistichealth #yogabusiness

🇪🇸 El racismo institucional,la violencia policial, los asesinatos policial/institucional no son sólo un asunto de EEUU. En España también pasa. #MameMbaye, #Manuel #FernándezJiménez, #MohamedBouderbala #soufianHnin, #MamadouBarry,#IdrissaDiall #AramisManukyan, #Mohamed Abagui#SambaMartine #allblacklivesmatter #justiceforgeorgefloyd #blacklivesmatter #endcolonialism #antiracismopolitico #disusnombres

✨ 2011 UK RIOTS I remember this so clearly, I had just come back from a trip to Berlin and headed down to my home e in East London. No one was on the streets in Liverpool street as I waited for my bus. I hadn't watched the news for a few days so had no idea what was going on. Got home and left my stuff to head off to my boyfriend’s place - Not knowing that I just had a close call from being locked in my apartment building as I left 30 minutes before the riots began outside my front door - to later watch the news and my building and street on the news later in the night. Luckily, no one set fire or burgled our flat - but the people around us were badly affected. We were part of the clean-up on the next day. Now the UK radio stations are talking about US riots - and saying that their issues did not happen in the UK 😠 Some people have VERY Short selective memories. And this is on-going, all over the world. Racism happens in different ways too - most of it is extremely subtle. .. so subtle that it can even make you question your own judgement while having your gut instinct screaming at you inside. Being pro-Black does not mean you are anti-White. Look at the crowds, it’s not just Black faces. It means that the oppressive system needs serious change and no one should be silent or think of this as not being their problem... No excuses for ignorance now. It affects all of us, directly or indirectly. #riot #blacklivesmatter #georgefloyd #racism #blacklivesmatter #policethepolice

✨ LONDON VIBES - FB gave me a reminder today. The city of London's financial district, where Yang & Yin meet... While I head to work in the evenings/weekends as a therapist and yogi, I always feel like I'm swimming upstream from all the cooperate office workers that are heading home. During the day, it's strong Yang and in the evenings and weekends, the strong Yin appears. Sometimes it feels like 2 extremes and sometimes I see how each side needs the other to thrive - and evolve. They need each other to work on progress. One of the main reasons I came here by instinct after the 2007/8 economic crash and everything that unfolded. 5 minutes within each other lies the financial powerhouse next to the creatives - a respectful space to learn from each other.. I also learned SO much in the last 12 years working here, so much more to learn too! A similar cycle has started, I embrace💖 #yoga #meditation #londonyoga #london #meditation #kundaliniyoga #cityoflondon

✨"I CAN'T BREATHE..." Fed-up of the systematic abuse, anger and fear. Tired of people getting away with their actions... Over and over again. It's not just the US - I have seen it in the UK and Spain too. Lockdown has seen many instances of police brutality on people of color in Spain, not reported but thankfully recorded by others on their phone. As Will Smith said: "Racism Is Not Getting Worse, It's Getting Filmed" - Our generation in this living moment is the first after the Apartheid and segregation generation, the large hangover of all it was as a historical built-up and still is today in many other forms... The way I see it, you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Zero tolerance for this BS. This goes deep - In psychology, we studied how trauma gets passed on through the generations, often subconscious - And in yoga we also talk about the karmic cycles (both good and bad) that have been a result of the last 7 generations before us - We also have the power to break the bad karmas and influence the next 7 ahead of us. It’s time! No more. #icantbreathe #racism #sosracismo

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✨ 12TH HOUSE MOOD They say the astrological month before your birthday is when you are in the 12th house in astrology (I am a Cancer Sun) - This is the energy of the unseen, the reset, the veil at its thinnest between the worlds/dimensions, the space of no energy boundaries, psychic and dreamy, the time when ancestors appear in your sleep with messages, the release, the build-up before a birth and a spiritual time when taking a step back is the best thing you can do. . LOCK-DOWN HAS BEEN AN OPPORTUNITY. Not an easy time, feeling wired up with the energy yet knowing that rest is the best way forward. Not taking too many actions, even when invited by others in my work or in personal life. Just taking each breath at a time. Detoxing a lot of old thoughts, ideas, connections, ways of doing, ways of being... . A WORLD-WIDE 12TH HOUSE ENERGY. I think in many ways, we are all going through this as we awaken to a new 1st House of Self in July/Summer. Let's not forget that we enter eclipse season in June, where things can literally be eclipsed out/in our life. Are you ready? Bring it on! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ . #astrology #yoga #lockdown #quarentine #meditation #locs #naturalhair

VENUS RETROGRADE IN GEMINI TUNE IN! #gemini #venusretrograde #astrology #tantra #love #relationship #divinefeminine #divinemasculine #goddess

✨ YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB RIGHT NOW! This New Moon in Gemini has been a good reminder that in these times, it is SO tempting to get sh*t done, the energy feels wired up for sure - BUT at the same time, it's a good time to take a step back and remind our Self that we are doing a great job - we're doing the best we can, take a deep breath... Step by step, let's be super gentle on our Self 💓🤗☕️ . Beautiful art by A L E X I S R A K U N A R T @alexisrakun . #art #newmoon #gemini #selfcare #selflove #lockdown #quarentine #yoga #meditation

✨ HAPPY NEW MOON IN GEMINI - We have a lot of Gemini energy in the air, probably explains why many of us are feeling wired up and mentally active. Gemini and all the retrogrades are asking us to - Observe how we communicate to our Self first and to others, in our reactions, clarity and needs - Travel local and support local businesses - Explore technology - Be mindful of our monkey 🐒 chatter in our mind - Feel lighter like its air element - Connect to what makes us inspired and keep being curious 🙃 #gemini #retrograde #kundaliniyoga #yoga #meditation #newmoon

✨ ON THE CHANGING WORK OF BEING A THERAPIST & YOGA TEACHER THERE IS A LOT OF LOSS RIGHT NOW. Of all kinds. In my work, I am seeing so many people closing their therapy/yoga centres. In sync with this energy, FB decided to remind me of a similar time. . THIS WAS MY OWN THERAPY CLINIC BACK IN 2009. When everyone told me I was crazy, I headed to work in the financial district of London right after the financial crisis in 2007/8. Who would care about this "hippy work" in the hardcore corporate heart of the city?!? My instinct told me to go there anyway and start looking for a space to start from a few years working in other areas of London. Within a year, I built enough regular clients to open my own therapy space on London Wall - and I watched how it evolved, working with other therapists (from medical to extreme alternative healing) and meeting people from all walks of life as clients. It turned out many of the bankers and cooperate faces of London were in the closet about their "alternative interests", this later became more obvious when many of them went on to quit the corporate world to open their own yoga/therapy spaces. The BOOM in this "mind-body-soul industry" started and became "mainstream" and it was no longer weird to go off to yoga during lunch hours! Long story short, the last 10 years has rapidly evolved in the way we worked in this field... for the good AND the bad things I was observing. Behind the scenes, running it as a business is not always full of incense sticks and deep breathing - Many of my clients are actually other therapists who had completely burnt out from the"business of yoga and healing". I then realised that this is exactly why the change had to happen. I left running a stressful therapy clinic behind after 5 years to really focus on my work with more freedom - I still work in Liverpool street where the corporates head home at 6pm and the therapists/yogis start their bookings. A strange place where 2 completely different sides meet. . NOW, WHAT? A deep transition. If ever there was time to re-evaluate what matters, now it will all be seen. #yogateacher #yogabusiness #business #yogateacherlife #holistictherapy #life

✨ WHAT IF YOU NEVER FITTED IN ANY OF THEM? My Venus Return with this Venus Retrograde is making me reflect on so many things! Especially the journey as women, exploring our Divine Feminine. . WHAT IF YOU DIDN'T IDENTIFY WITH ANY OF THEM? My thoughts on the Goddess when growing up... As an Aries Moon, I was a tomboy skateboarding girl who had an amazing group of guys/girls as friends - To this day, my oldest friend is a guy I met when I first moved to London and we have always been good friends only. I don't believe men and women can't be friends without extras. I never wore skirts/dresses/makeup. So the idea of "being feminine" as being a gentle, soft, dress-wearing classically beautiful image was not something I cared about - Then exploring some groups, I always had the feeling that many women had bad feelings towards the men in their lives - Again, I did not feel any negativity towards my male friends, in fact, I learned many things from them that I may not have known from my female friends. Many well-known Goddesses were not a person of color - My afro hair and darker skin did not feel celebrated in the main images of "Goddess". Today, I realise/real-I-rise that this energy is so much more - and does not fit any box. . 20 YEARS AGO, A BOOK THAT STARTED A MOVEMENT WITHIN. Queen Afua's book changed many women's lives at it did for me in the early 2000's. I later started to explore the different Goddesses around the world, finding which mixes I could relate to. I started my locs in 2001 as a declaration that I was going to honour my Sacred journey, no matter what - and if I was not accepted as a "beautiful woman" in mainstream society because of it. That was OK with me. . EXPLORING THE SOLAR FEMININE - Continue in comments 👇 #divinefeminine #goddess #sacredwoman #queenafua #yoga #meditation #bookstagram #feminism #divinefeminineenergy #bookstagram #books #womanofcolor

✨ GEMINI ENERGY IS BIG FOR THE LONG TERM! Not just for this season, but for the next year or so! Gemini + . Venus Retrograde is 40-day process where we will dive deep into our inner thoughts on: what love connection means, how you communicate to your Self/others, what you value, how you can use your hands - arms - breath in a creative way, what money/material needs are in your life, the feminine energy in a practical way, and how/what/who you truly value in your life. . North Node in Gemini - The direction of how we move forward is going to be in the Gemini qualities until 2022, it's the dharma to evolve in this time period. So, we can see how this is already working in this cycle as it began recently... Internet and communication has evolved over lockdown, the way we think may have changed, going local Vs global (South Node Sagittarius is the karma we need to leave behind). . REFLECTION Qs: Where is your Gemini energy in your natal chart? Where is your Venus in your natal chart? :ook for the house/sign and explore the qualities! This will be activated! . MY VENUS IN GEMINI IN THE 5TH HOUSE - This is a huge Venus return for me. As a woman, Venus is where women discover their Goddess / Divine Feminine energy. This has been a beautiful process already! I can't wait to see what this all reveals 💓 #Gemini #astrology #venusretrograde #oraclecards #card #energyreading #yoga #meditation #spirituality

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