Change the rhythm of the world.
The current world systems were created centuries ago by a group of people who decided that gaining power through greed and violence were more important than human life.
That is still happening. Right now. Today.
The speed and urgency of the world you are living in is not an accident. It is a strategy. A strategy that uses your body — your beautiful, wise, exhausted body — as a mode of production.
And if you literally never stop, you begin to believe that is all you are here for.
You are not here to be a machine for capitalism.
You are here to be human. Fully, messily, gloriously human. And that requires rest. Not as a treat. Not when everything is done. Not when you earn it.
Now. Regularly. In community. As a practice of resistance.
Wake up to how urgency and grind culture are living in your body right now — not as a shame, but as a starting place
Build a practice of nourishing yourself first — before the inbox, before the meeting, before the ask
Find an anchor in community you can return to every time the world speeds back up
Cultivate the sensitivity to receive what only comes in stillness — from your ancestors, from the earth, from your own deep knowing
Reclaim your relationship to pleasure, to ease, to your own rhythm
This rest space will support you to:
Our Practices Include
Yoga Nidra (sleep yoga) Rest Practice
story time
journaling to support reprogramming grind culture into nurturing our bodies
building personal rest rituals
discussions about sleep hygiene
night time stretching and gentle movement to wind down
Texts by Black women on the reclamation of rest i.e. Tricia Hersey, Tracee Stanley, Octavia Raheem
