Oneness, Interconnection and the Healing Wisdom of the Hive
What spiritual lessons can bees teach us about being aware, present and seeing the One in all? Today we are going to be discussing what spiritual lessons that bees can teach us about being aware, present and seeing the One in all.
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Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Michelle Cassandra Johnson is the co-author of the book that we discussed titled: The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing as well as many books on yoga philosophy and social justice. Michelle is an activist, social justice warrior, author, anti-racism consultant and trainer, intuitive healer, yoga teacher and practitioner. She has led dismantling racism work in many settings for over two decades and has two decades of practice as a clinical social worker. Michelle’s work centers on healing from individual and collective trauma, coming back into wholeness and aligning the mind, body, spirit, and heart.
WEBSITE: MichelleCJohnson.com FB: @Michelle C. Johnson InstaGram: @skillinaction
THE YOGA HOUR TEAM COMMENTS: I am so grateful for this conversation with Dr. Trujillo and her guest, Michelle Cassandra Johnson, the co-author of The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing. As I move in the world, I can remember to take time to slow down and be amazed by something bigger than me. I can show up differently in life and consider how bees can teach us about communal interdependence and attunement to nature. I can connect with what's amazing and enlivening. I can hum with the bees and imagine their dance. We all can hum and dance with the bees! Through the practice of yoga, we can be in attunement with the One in all. Paying attention to the teaching of the bees helps us on our path of awakening and healing.
DR. TRUJILLO’S COMMENTS: I so enjoyed discussing the many ways that studying honeybees has overlapped with Michelle Cassandra Johnson’s teaching on yoga. Looking at the honeybees as an example of both Karma Yoga, selfless service, and Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion, was inspiring. I enjoyed our discussion of the “more than human” world, and the seamlessness with which honeybees integrate with the outer environment. Their focus on the collective, and action as a superorganism, are beautiful examples of the Oneness that is at the heart of yoga.