Michelle Cassandra Johnson's Books

Finding Refuge

Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Finding Refuge

Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Learn how to process your own grief--as well as family, community, and global grief--with this fierce and openhearted guide to healing in an unjust world. In unsettling and uncertain times, the individual and collective heartbreak that lives in our bodies and communities can feel insurmountable. Many of us have been conditioned by the dominant culture to not name, focus on, or wade through the difficulties of our lives. But in order to heal, we must make space for grief and prioritize our wholeness, our humanity, and our inherent divinity. In Finding Refuge, social justice activist, social worker, and yoga teacher Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers those who feel brokenhearted, helpless, confused, powerless, and desperate the tools they need to be present with their grief while also remaining openhearted. Through powerful personal narrative and meditation and journaling practices at the end of each chapter that explore being present with your heart, Michelle empowers us to see that each of us has a role to play in building enough momentum to take intentional action and shift what is unsettled and unjust in the world. Finding Refuge is an invitation to pick up the shattered parts of yourself and remember your strength, wholeness, and sacredness through this practice of presence and attending to your grief.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

170

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0834843609

ISBN 13

9780834843608

Skill in Action

Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Skill in Action

Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Transform your yoga practice into a force for creating social change with this concise, eloquent manual of social justice tools and skills. Skill in Action asks you to explore the deeply transformational practice of yoga as a way to become an agent of social change and work toward a just world. Through yoga practices and philosophy, this book explores liberation for ourselves and others, while asking us to engage in our own agency—whether that manifests as activism, volunteer work, or changing our relationships with others and ourselves. To provide a strong foundation to begin this work, Michelle Cassandra Johnson clearly defines power and privilege, oppression, liberation, and suffering, and invites you to make changes in your life that promote equality and freedom for all. This revised and expanded edition offers journaling practices and prompts in each chapter; includes more material on how power and privilege inform the yoga industry; explains how to integrate justice into teaching the eight limbs of yoga; and offers ways to support people as they move through their resistance and discomfort in the face of injustice. This edition also offers a fuller look at how the yamas and niyamas—the ethical precepts of yoga—can be studied in order to create a more just world, and it offers more support for yoga teachers seeking to radicalize their yoga.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0834844044

ISBN 13

9780834844049

We Heal Together

Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

We Heal Together

Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

A hopeful, wise, and practical guide to help us move into spaces of individual and collective healing, community, and relationship building—with practices to shed our isolation, connect, and thrive. In times of isolation, heartbreak, and brokenness, reaching out to each other, being in conversation, finding ways to connect with compassion and openness can help us heal, and thrive. This powerful, positive guide coaxes us to go beyond our individual and collective grief, and courageously re-enter and reclaim our sense of community—which then further strengthens our spiritual practice. Through spiritual teachings drawn from the Bhagavad Gita, mindfulness practices, rituals, resources, and journaling prompts in each chapter, Michelle Cassandra Johnson shows us how we can heal and facilitate healing; reclaim what it means to hold space and build community; find joy; connect to and summon support from our ancestors; connect with nature to strengthen and restore ourselves; and love, alchemize, dream, and conjure in community. Examples of practices include journaling on what community means to you; meditation with a ritual object; progressive muscle relaxation; Yoga Nidra; and many more—all adapted for use alone or in a group. Includes simple, evocative line drawings by Vashon Island, WA-artist, Ivan Moy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0834845008

ISBN 13

9780834845008

A Space for Us

A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Space for Us

A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

“A helpful introduction to facilitating affinity spaces in an inclusive, emergent, and trauma-informed way to foster the communal healing spaces that in turn ignite community action and liberation.”—Resmaa Menakem, best-selling author of My Grandmother’s Hands and Monsters in Love The first comprehensive guide for leading BIPOC affinity groups for challenging white supremacy, healing racial trauma, and taking collective action Meeting in racial affinity groups is a common practice in anti-racist, social justice, diversity, and similar forms of educational endeavors. These groups provide a structured space in which participants can explore how racism personally impacts them, process specific experiences of racism, receive validation and support from their peers, heal, and strategize next steps for challenging racism, white supremacy, and internalized racial oppression. In A Space for Us, Michelle Cassandra Johnson brings her over 20 years of experience leading dismantling racism work to provide the first affinity groups guide made for BIPOC communities. This essential guide will: Provide an understanding of the racial hierarchy and how it has impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color differently. Define and share common manifestations of internalized racial oppression. Define anti-Blackness and provide skills to interrupt and address it. Share rituals, practices, and sample agendas for affinity groups. Explain when it is useful to meet as one BIPOC group and when it is useful to meet based on one’s specific racial identity. Provide rituals and tools for healing in BIPOC affinity groups. Provide information about how to come back together as BIPOC and white people to strategize and take collective action. Comprehensive and accessible, A Space for Us offers practical guidance for facilitating effective BIPOC racial affinity groups and will be an important resource for BIPOC communities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

210

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807007870

ISBN 13

9780807007877

Illuminating Our True Nature

Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Illuminating Our True Nature

Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Dissolve hurtful patterns and emotional hardship through the five yogic points of suffering, or kleshas. Includes powerful and practical meditations, mantras, asanas, reflection questions, and more, to reduce our suffering—and the suffering of others. We all get stuck in hurtful patterns that continue to create more suffering in our lives. In yoga philosophy, these patterns are known as the five kleshas. In this wise, practical guide, Michelle Cassandra Johnson offers us a path toward developing a deeper understanding of them and how they hijack us emotionally. The five kleshas are: ignorance (avidya); overidentification with ego (asmita); attachment to desire or pleasure (raga); aversion or avoidance (dvesha); and fear of death or letting go (abhinivesha). Each one leads us to create tendencies and karma that move us away from realizing and remembering our true nature and seeing ourselves as separate from one another and the planet. In yogic terms, this perpetuates a constant cycle of pain for us all. Readers will learn to: • deepen their connection with self and others; • look at their relationship and attachment to pleasure and aversion to discomfort; • notice more fully how their actions affect others; • meet each moment as it arises and ride the waves of life as they come; • and much more Johnson offers us a way to find a sense of clarity, groundedness, and equanimity within ourselves by working through the kleshas one-by-one using asana, pranayama, mudra, mantra, reflection questions, and meditation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

164547187X

ISBN 13

9781645471875

Finding Refuge

Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Finding Refuge

Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

170

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0834843609

ISBN 13

9780834843608

A Space for Us

A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Space for Us

A Guide for Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

210

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807007870

ISBN 13

9780807007877

Illuminating Our True Nature

Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Illuminating Our True Nature

Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

164547187X

ISBN 13

9781645471875

We Heal Together

Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

We Heal Together

Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

225

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0834845008

ISBN 13

9780834845008

Skill in Action

Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Skill in Action

Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World

By: Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Shambhala Publications

Published Date

ISBN 10

0834844044

ISBN 13

9780834844049

Book's by Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Finding Refuge

Finding Refuge

Skill in Action

Skill in Action

We Heal Together

We Heal Together

A Space for Us

A Space for Us

Illuminating Our True Nature

Illuminating Our True Nature

Finding Refuge

Finding Refuge

A Space for Us

A Space for Us

Illuminating Our True Nature

Illuminating Our True Nature

We Heal Together

We Heal Together

Skill in Action

Skill in Action

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email