Welcome to the Liberating Yoga Podcast. My guest today is Leah Saliter (she/her). Leah is a Death Doula, Digital Creator, Yoga enthusiast, and certified Yoga-Asana instructor who teaches Yoga as a source of healing for Black and Brown, abundant bodies.

She is the founder of Unity in Healing, an organization that creates safe spaces where folks can experience the power of healing in community through movement practice, tarot, divination work, and ancestral practices. Leah's mission is to create accessible healing communities that support the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual exploration of self.

Find Leah

https://www.joywork.online

https://www.instagram.com/leahlaughed

00:00 - Intro

01:17 - Meeting Leah Saliter

02:52 - What Yoga Means to Leah

04:02 - The Importance of Safety in Community

07:46 - Profit-Driven Wellness Spaces vs. Authentic Healing

10:04 - Reducing Yoga to Fitness

13:27 - Discovering Yoga as a Path to Survival and Peace

17:03 - Teaching Tools and Encouragement for Students

20:02 - Reconnecting to Accessibility in Yoga

24:05 - Teaching Restorative Yoga Amid Studio Resistance

29:00 - Letting Go of Capitalist Measures of Success in Yoga

33:00 - Body Acceptance and Embracing What Is

37:42 - The Violence of Beauty Standards

40:54 - Practising Ahimsa (Nonviolence) with Ourselves

43:04 - Speaking Kindly to Ourselves

47:04 - More Ways Fatphobia Shows Up in Yoga

49:01 - Disordered Eating "Perfect" Bodies

52:30 - Yoga as Stillness, Listening, and Deep Work

56:01 - The Challenge and Rewards of the Inner Work

01:02:51 - What Led Leah to Reach Out

01:08:56 - Working Together in Community, Not Hierarchy

01:10:49 - How to Connect with Leah and Unity & Healing

01:12:29 - Outro

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Thank you for watching this video and checking out the channel. My practice is rooted in my spiritual background of Sikhism and Buddhism and ancestral roots in Panjab, India - this informs my desire to teach yoga authentically as a spiritual practice. To learn more, please find all of our resources below.

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