Brew a cup of your favorite ORGANIC INDIA tea and make time to enjoy this insightful conversation.
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On Yoga on Country with Aunty Jacqui Jarrett
Aunty Jacqui Jarrett (she/her) is a proud Dharawal & Gumbaynggirr woman, elder & traditional owner of the Sydney Basin in Australia.
She’s the founder of Nura Yoga, a recent graduate of our Mental Health Aware Yoga training and she offers Yoga on Country classes which she shares all about in this fascinating podcast episode.
Aunty Jacqui’s yoga practice is intrinsically tied to her cultural obligations & responsibilities as a custodian of the land, and through the practice of yoga, she shows continual cultural connections, practices & knowledge of First Nations people.
As soon as Aunty Jacqui joined the Mental Health Aware Yoga training last year, I knew that I wanted to invite her on the podcast to speak about her life and work. In this episode, she shares about how it wasn’t until she found trauma-sensitive and Mental Health Aware Yoga that she finally started to see herself represented in contemporary yoga. She also shares about the ways that she brings yoga onto Country and how she has been applying the principles of Mental Health Aware Yoga in this space.
Aunty Jacqui also explores the similarities and differences that she sees between yogic practices and wisdom and the wisdom and practices of Australia’s First Nations people.
Truly it is an honour to have shared the teachings of Mental Health Aware Yoga with Aunty Jacqui and I’m excited to share this episode with you today.
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