The Heart of Yoga EP 11 - Belonging to Yourself with Litiana Lagibalavu and Mark Whitwell
Litiana returns to the podcast for part two of this conversation on how yoga helped her throw out colonial and religious legacies from her body and embrace her own indigeneity, and truly feel at home in her body.
Mark and her discuss her experiences, her vision for teaching dissociated world leaders, and their shared relationship with the Indian High commissioner and her poetry honouring Fiji.
“You can't change anybody until you love them first.”
- Her conflict between feeling at home, but never fully belonging to her own self
- Yoga as a process of belonging to yourself
- Stepping into your power amidst traditional indigenous and religious society
- How people reacted to her process of freedom — the labels, the family expectations, and the struggle
- Is it possible to be at peace with societal patterning?
- The undeveloped mind of humanity that assumes separation
- Feeling at home in the world and in our bodies wherever we go
- An indigenous perspective on healing the dysfunctional inheritance of colonialism
- Rethinking the meaning of “poverty” and “wealth”, and how we use this language
- Litiana's blend of yoga and activism and vision for teaching dissociated world leaders
- How Yoga transformed her Christian faith
- Meeting the Indian High Commissioner Padmaja on her last day of her diplomatic career in Fiji and translating her poem into Fijian
Connect with Litiana @yoganesian on Instagram or Facebook, or practice with her and Mark inside our “Yoga for Activists” online course.
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