Episode 25: In Service of the Moment with Anjali Rao
If you’ve ever wondered about the connection between yoga and social justice, and if you’ve ever wondered how the teachings of yoga invite us into the work of activism, tuning into this conversation with Anjali Rao (she/her) is a must. Anjali is a yoga educator and social justice activist. She’s also a cancer survivor who began to connect with the practices of yoga in the aftermath of her cancer diagnosis. Now, years later, she can look back on her winding professional and personal path and see the ways in which it’s all connected, all interwoven, informing her current work in the world. This conversation asks, “how can we hold ourselves with accountability and with compassion; how can we remain hopeful while also staying committed to change?”
Tune in to hear us talk about...
The calling Anjali felt to make her life meaningful and her beginnings in outreach work and socio-political campaigning
The ways in which she saw the texts of yoga to be deeply problematic, along with her growing awareness that certain people have access to yoga spaces while others do not
Her determination to disrupt systems of oppression and how she leverages her privilege while also learning to call people in and up in an effort to make small ripples of change
How the Bhagavad Gita can be considered a story of social location, privilege, identity, and marginalization
...and more!
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