Fabulous! Such good work and great actionable ideas. It is so important to reframe these critical issues as grounds for joy, humor, beauty, and possibility. Go team, go! Thank you for this share.
Thank you so much for this profile of Reggie Hubbard and how he is holding space for Black men's mental health as founder of Active Peace Yoga and how his work connects to climate justice. It's also an important piece for addressing how there needs to be a cultural shift within wellness more generally and within climate activism if we are to avoid burnout. I really appreciate his observations about the "psychological kinship" of those who "see" the climate emergency and those who don't. As a white woman involved in fitness and more recently climate justice, I've been reckoning with my privileges for a couple of years. I feel a lot of ambivalence about my canfitpro membership and fitness in general because the industry is not talking about the climate crisis, as if our health doesn't depend on the health of our local communities and ecosystems. What are we doing? I took inspiration from Music Declares Emergency's #NoMusicOnADeadPlanet and created my hashtags #FitnessDeclares a climate emergency and #NoFitnessOnASickPlanet and I share about my work at my Embodied Climate Justice Fitness project (not a fitness business). This year for CEC credits I'm taking a course from the Ottawa Heart Institute that includes a unit about the Air Quality Health Index. Previously I created a little activation video that uses fitness moves to symbolize climate justice solutions and presented it to my poetry club and a group of Unitarians. I've led a couple poetry walks featuring mostly Indigenous authors (with their permission). I also volunteer at a climate cafe by offering a little bit of embodiment. This work in fitness is lonely but I have community among climate activists. It's so heartening to read about Reggie's work at the intersection of racism, wellness and climate. I'm feeling the kinship!
A really inspiring man. Loving the way he advises holding hope and despair together. Thank you!
Fabulous! Such good work and great actionable ideas. It is so important to reframe these critical issues as grounds for joy, humor, beauty, and possibility. Go team, go! Thank you for this share.
totally agree! thanks for being here
Thank you for this thoughtful interview and for introducing me (and other readers) to Reggie's work.
Wonderful. Thank you!
Thank you for writing about this, Britt and team! 🫶🏽✨
Thank you for this brilliant piece.
Thank you so much for this profile of Reggie Hubbard and how he is holding space for Black men's mental health as founder of Active Peace Yoga and how his work connects to climate justice. It's also an important piece for addressing how there needs to be a cultural shift within wellness more generally and within climate activism if we are to avoid burnout. I really appreciate his observations about the "psychological kinship" of those who "see" the climate emergency and those who don't. As a white woman involved in fitness and more recently climate justice, I've been reckoning with my privileges for a couple of years. I feel a lot of ambivalence about my canfitpro membership and fitness in general because the industry is not talking about the climate crisis, as if our health doesn't depend on the health of our local communities and ecosystems. What are we doing? I took inspiration from Music Declares Emergency's #NoMusicOnADeadPlanet and created my hashtags #FitnessDeclares a climate emergency and #NoFitnessOnASickPlanet and I share about my work at my Embodied Climate Justice Fitness project (not a fitness business). This year for CEC credits I'm taking a course from the Ottawa Heart Institute that includes a unit about the Air Quality Health Index. Previously I created a little activation video that uses fitness moves to symbolize climate justice solutions and presented it to my poetry club and a group of Unitarians. I've led a couple poetry walks featuring mostly Indigenous authors (with their permission). I also volunteer at a climate cafe by offering a little bit of embodiment. This work in fitness is lonely but I have community among climate activists. It's so heartening to read about Reggie's work at the intersection of racism, wellness and climate. I'm feeling the kinship!