Earth Talk: Mindfulness, Healing And Racism: Cultivating Right Relations with Lyla June Johnston

Lyla June shares a speech, poetry and music that gives her perspective on race as an Indigenous (Diné/Navajo) person and ways that we might come into right relations as a species.
From the vantage point of a Diné person, she shares historical context which can guide us in how we show up today for racial healing and justice.
About the speaker
Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her dynamic, multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing.
She blends studies in Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree, focusing on Indigenous food systems revitalization.
lylajune.com
Postgraduate courses at Schumacher College: www.schumachercollege.org.uk/...
Short Courses at Schumacher College:
www.schumachercollege.org.uk/...

[@cristobalchristopher]

Your words are medicine, Lyla June 🙏🏽

[@nativedoll3557]

I am Cree and Gros Ventre and currently residing in Central Eastern Georgia and my Mother was from Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Harlem Montana although I was not raised in the Native way which saddens me but I am learning of my wonderful heritage and my ancestors I came across Lyla June from cousin who is 100% Native and have been following her on you tube videos my heart is warm when I hear her music and poems

[@irispicks3750]

Thank you again Lyla June. mixture European ancestry myself...from Oregon US. I love Lyla June so much.

[@caseytithof]

Amazing. Forever indebted for this incredible life saving knowledge. Thank you Lyla June. ✌🏼💘💡

[@philliptyreman9009]

Lyla June - Aho Mitakuye Oyasin with the most greatest of respect 🙏. I’m British North East of UK (Saltburn by-the-sea). Lyla has so much learned & spiritual knowledge to share even before you see her talented musical ability 💜5⭐️💎. She is a leader, healer & visionary. Phill Tyreman 🙏

[@janetwolfe4751]

I am am older white female from Indiana, USA and am glad you have Lyla June Johnson on I love hearing her on environment

[@wethepeople2206]

I hear very little about Native American in Indiana and I've been living here for 30 years it's great to hear from you I'm Navajo

[@hallowelt2673]

Thank You Dartington Trust and thank You Lyla June, to share this view of the world we are all living in. To know more about us. I am from Germany ☘✋

[@josephschaumberg4136]

Thank you for uplifting my spirit.

[@anitainmo489]

Thank you Ms Lyla June. We are people.

[@user-ik3bp2gh5d]

I enjoy very mutch listening. Through all the things you do on media/Internet, I realised that I have no ancesters known by me and my siblings. Just know ouer farher and mother, the names of ouer grandparents and thats it. Lost all ouer roots, througt World War 1 and 2. Ouer parents both refugees from Pommern & Schlesien, met after the war in Munich and maried in December '48. Today I tried to imagine, how life has been looked like, at the place ouer parents are origin from, tree generation before us. It seems to be quite imposible. It' so sad. What war did with whole lot of folks like us. Beeing, and living without the deep roots of such ancesters, like you have. You' are blessed there in the US/Turtel Island, as you call it, never hat such a war on your continent as the World War 1 and 2. With total destruktion, of all and everything. We have nothing left exspecially here in germany: no music, but klassik, no dance, no cuklture of us own. Only some of us like the bavarien, the Sorben, Friesen, and . . . I don't know. I am a Berliner (Kindle), all we hat here in the American Sector (the south-western Berlin) was AFM , American Forces Radio. Everything here in my youth was made by USA. EVEN the names of the streets and places: Clayallee, Truman Place, Andrew & Mc Nair Baracks . . . Now I realise that we have been realisiert occoupied. And the history is written by the winner . . . I learned through all my youth, that Inhad to be thankfull for the USA . . . And that they brought us (german sub-human) democracy. 😂😢😮😅

[@jandunn169]

I have been listening to Lyla's talks in these troubling times......Half of my European ancestors were chased out of many countries for being Jews....and somehow met people from many other nations, including some indigenous peoples in America. Jews were forced out of Spain in the early 1500's at the same time that Columbus came to the Caribbean. I am mourning both my Jewish ancestors who were shot in Ukraine by the Nazis and my Taino ancestors killed in Puerto Rico by the Spanish. There is a lot to move through.....and I feel like Native peoples hold the key to finding a new way that will work for all of us. Thank you for explaining Coyote....

[@karynwade-grayowl]

This is such a good conversation Lyla, i needed to hear this. We all need to!!!!!

[@JohnWilmerding]

You are a great gift, LJ !!!

[@caimccray7]

Listening from southern California. Mother adopted by my grandparents who immigrated from Mexico. Grandfather came from a small village and is part of the Raramuri people, my grandmother comes from primarily Spanish. Unsure of my mother’s origins we did dna testing found she is Nahua, Maya, and Spanish and myself. My father was mixed African American/Mexican I am African American Nahua, Maya and Spanish .

[@Merlin-ur1dz]

You are one of great ladies women and I pick up on words quickly quick it's good for all to hear you greatly repeated with Blessing from Merlin.

[@terry63lee]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 prayers for all who have been forced to believe in the Holiness of capitalist greed and the predestination of drunken ignorance

[@margaretmcleod4259]

I am lakota "The People" ONE LOVE LOVE ALL

[@philliptyreman9009]

Best description of grace can be found in M.Scott Peck ‘The Road Less Traveled’ . A New Psychology of Love Traditional Values And Spiritual Growth (Classic Edition) Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World (Includes Free CD with Guided Meditations) Mark Williams & Danny Penman

[@Merlin-ur1dz]

Thanks much for you two great joy are feeling of love words coming out to touching Dine means people hearts 💕 lives life

[@valemerine3676]

thank you.

[@gerilujan1051]

Listening from Seattle

[@johnwhitehouse7577]

Come to Australia 🙏✊✌

[@allanthompson9695]

Excellent.

[@Merlin-ur1dz]

Understandable how you feel about others Dine and how they see you when we are all one family tree should be like a Christmas tree 🎄 with stars ⭐ shine for all good health for everyone around the world globe 🌐 ❤

[@Threadbow]

🪶 🪶 🪶 🪶 🪶 🪶 🪶 🏹 🌎 ✌️ 🕊

[@scotttinsley7622]

I love your music and respect most of what you said. I only disagree with the part that superiorism/racism is mainly a European/white thing. It is found through out history no matter what race , nationality, ethnic group, etc. it may be. Every race at some point in history has been a slave to another as well have owned slaves including the first nations. Most were sold into slavery by their own. The root of the issue boils down to Classism. As white male I have no need to apologize for anything since I have done nothing to anyone and won't apologize for the crimes of assholes just cause they share the same pigment.

[@umpireofthefenceless3520]

I listened to a podcast by someone who expressed irritation at the term "Turtle Island," because not all Indigenous people call it that. I'm just reporting something I encountered, not in a place to make a judgement.

[@johnwhitehouse7577]

Leo snake 😇 soul name faith 🤔 anyone know her

[@andrewoberhoulser5849]

Oklahoma - alliance

[@umpireofthefenceless3520]

Anthropocentrism is a synonym of human supremacy