Join Graduate Assistants Serenity Tedesco and Taina Rodriguez-Berardi for the inaugural season of the LMU Graduate Yoga Studies Podcast where they challenge the popular understanding of yoga and the field of yoga studies with critical questions about authenticity, race, social justice, appropriation, colonialism, power dynamics, accessibility, and more.
Read MoreIn the middle of a global pandemic and social unrest, with protests happening almost everyday in LA County, I chose to come back to an old friend, Japa meditation—which often includes the repetition of a mantra. It is no coincidence that my daily Japa mantra practice and the chants of protest were in parallel—both are striving for change, transformation, peace and the ultimate end of suffering in this manifest world that we all share.
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