Beyond Trauma

In this conversation with activist and healer Reggie Hubbard, we discuss how to be real as a yoga teacher by using your true voice, sound bowls, gongs, and DJs. This truth (Satva) when the students experience it disrupts and creates real change which Reggie has termed “Active Peace”. Reggie illustrates this through his story and his actions. Tune into this episode to grow a deeper understanding of the chakra system and how it helps to express truth with love, how to find your community, get out of hopelessness, wake up, and make change.

Reggie is the founder/chief serving officer of Active Peace Yoga. His yoga and meditation practice has served as a sanctuary of peace and perspective while navigating the stresses of being a black man in the world, serving in pressure-filled jobs at the height of politics, and have helped him navigate complicated emotions (anger, grief, disappointment) to find and nurture peace of mind and ease of spirit.  

Reggie shares his practice in service to helping people navigate this thing called life with more creativity, authenticity, peace, and ease.  He has extensively studied with leading teachers in yogic, meditative, and dharmic disciplines while also remembering that the best teacher is an eternal student.  He is a graduate of the MMTCP (Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program) 2023 cohort and is always seeking new ways of sharing ancient wisdom with modern audiences.  

Through Active Peace Yoga, he offers asana and meditation classes to help others nurture peace of mind, creativity, and equanimity in spirit and physical health - helping people nurture well-being as foundational, rather than an afterthought. Reggie has taught Members of Congress, Congressional Staff, major labor unions, leading progressive organizations, and individuals from all walks of life - simple tools for managing stress and bringing peace to mind, body, and spirit.  Active Peace also offers strategic guidance on creating healthier cultures and organizational norms rooted in well-being, compassion, and results.

Reggie's life work sits at the intersection of bringing more peace and balance to activists; guiding the wellness community toward being more engaged, concerned citizens; and, enhancing the well-being of all walks of life.   Achieving this balance is how we catalyze transformative change in our society, which we are desperately in need of at this moment. He also is passionate about justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI); normalizing grief and loss; and, sharing healing rituals with marginalized communities to enhance our collective well-being.

He received a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA in international strategy from the Vlerick Business School in Belgium.

 You can find out more at www.activepeaceyoga.com. 

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I also wanted to let you know about my upcoming trauma-sensitive weekend - at Kripalu supporting survivors with embodied practices - for all to look into grief and trauma and stress held in your body and grow more compassionate toward yourself and others also holding these tensions and reacting from them- all about Kripalu- food, extra yoga classes, nature walks, quiet, etc. - June 20th - July 2nd so coming into July 4th time and a great gift to give yourself or come to the campus w a friend you will feel serene just arriving there. I'll also be leading a three-day retreat and trauma training workshop in the western Catskills. This ecological area is very healing and special to me. Details on that July 28th-30th.

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