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The One About the Hidden Link Between Black Wellness & Black Liberation

Feb 5, 2024

Rebeckah Price, a wellness advocate and yoga instructor, discusses the hidden link between Black wellness and Black liberation. They explore the impact of systemic oppression on well-being, the importance of representation in the wellness space, and their personal journey of advocacy and yoga. They also discuss the limitations of the resilience label, navigating life with multiple sclerosis, and the motivation found in community and motherhood.

38:30

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Quick takeaways

Breath work is a powerful tool for wellness, especially for racialized individuals living in survival mode.

Making wellness practices accessible and addressing systemic oppression are crucial for true well-being.

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Importance of Breathing and Wellness

Rebecca Price, a wellness advocate, emphasizes the significance of breath work and accessing the breath as a tool for wellness. She highlights how, as racialized individuals, many of us live in a state of survival, compromising our well-being, and often neglecting the breath. Rebecca urges the importance of acknowledging the breath and its role in guiding us through life. She encourages people to explore their breath in different emotional states and to use it as an anchor and a tool for creating space, expanding, and providing an opportunity to just be.

Introduction

3min

Wellness and Social Justice

12min

An Upbringing Shaped by Ancestors and Cultural Contrasts, Leading to a Journey of Advocacy and Yoga

5min

Exploring the Label of Resilience

15min

Finding Motivation and Purpose in Community and Motherhood

3min

Rebeckah Price is a wellness advocate, yoga instructor (RYT 200), and meditation teacher, and wellness entrepreneur that draws on her wealth of knowledge of working in underserved, marginalized, racialized, and immigrant communities in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. With a background and education in Community Development and Engagement she saw the ways in which the social determinants of health had direct impacts on one's ability to be well. As an avid yoga practitioner she saw a gap in the ways in which people had access to the necessary resources and tools to support their wellbeing. Paralleling the worlds of community development and wellness, she sought to find a more mindful balance between her work and community impact. In 2013 she founded irise yoga + wellness- as a way to connect, promote, bring awareness to and foster the inclusion of people of colour and other historically marginalized groups in yoga and wellness spaces.

In 2023 Rebeckah was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and is actively working on creating an inclusive platform to help support people with chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases with the resources to help them along their wellness journey.

Rebeckah’s work has been featured in: Refinery29, well + good, The Cut, Essence magazine and Reader's Digest. She has guest lectured at Universities across Canada, and taught for companies like Genuine Health, Nike, Shopify, Footlocker Canada, and many others.

Outside of teaching, mentoring, and contributing to her community, Rebeckah works to intentionally make wellness more accessible through her philanthropic work. When she is not busy wearing her many hats she can be found courtside at one of her three sons' basketball games or taking long walks in nature.

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Music:
Make it to Tomorrow by Andre Henry
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (Remix) by Andre Henry

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