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Day 4
Day 4
Dr. Shani Om
Dr. Shani Om
Healer
Shadow Work
Shadow Work
Theme
Shadow Work Meditation
Shadow Work Meditation
Guided Practice
ON THIS DAY
ON THIS DAY
Meditation Practices
Meditation Practices
Today's Practitioner: Dr. Shani Om
Shani Ojukwu Mantenso is the Principal Movement Healer for Hadiya Movement Systems. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is both a certified yoga teacher and personal trainer, and vied for the 1992 Summer Olympics as an elite gymnast. While living in New York City in the early 2000s, Dr. Ojukwu Mantenso taught gymnastics and ballet at the Vanderbilt YMCA, apprenticed with premier modern dance choreographers Elizabeth Streb, Peter Pucci, and Bill T. Jones, and worked as a professional fitness model in Body By Jake infomercials and David Kirsch workout videos. She has also taught dance abroad, namely Cuba, Brazil, and as visiting faculty of West Afrikan dance at the Victorian School of the Arts conservatory in Melbourne, Australia on a four-month work visa in 2000.
Shani is a consummate movement specialist who provides instruction with compassion, rigor, professionalism, and joy. Having supported her body through cancer by “training her temple” from Stage 3 to Stage 1 in six weeks with vigorous exercise, strict veganism, and a focused yoga and meditation practice, she kicked cancer’s ass in 2012. From her own experience as well as that of the hundreds of students and clients with whom she has worked over the twenty-five years of teaching, Shani knows that a supported body is an effective one that can meet the greatest of life’s challenges. Whether through yoga, fitness, or dance, let her help you help yourself bring Spirit hOMe to the body with Hadiya Movement Systems.
Liberation Journal Prompt
Liberation Journal Prompt
“Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.” -Alice Walker
“Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.” -Alice Walker
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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
GDM_Day 4 Vocab [NO DATES].pdfWeekly Questions: What is my relationship to my breath? My physical body? How connected is my sense of self to the land that I live on? Who were the original stewards of this land? How have things gotten so twisted? How can I see my own self more clearly? How will identifying my biases help me? What work will I do to excavate my shadow self? What do I believe I need to live safely? What do my neighbors need to live safely? What do the people who live cross town need? What is the relationship between my safety and my breath?
Song of the Day
Song of the Day
Listen to the full 28 Day Meditation for Black Liberation playlist made by Mark Gutierrez on Spotify.
“Strange Fruit”
“Strange Fruit”
By Billie Holiday
By Billie Holiday
The song “Strange Fruit” juxtaposes idyllic images of the Southern United States with the cruel, dehumanizing realities that Black Americans faced there. It was a controversial song and sent shockwaves through the jazz music world, which, from an economic perspective, was still largely supported white, wealthy patrons. Billie Holiday, who was once quoted as saying, “You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation,” fought back against public disapproval of this song to continue spreading awareness in protest against systemic racism and violence.
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