South Asian Healing Network (SAH)
British Columbia, Canada – Turtle Island
Our shop will be on a break between January 4th – January 23rd. All orders placed between these dates will be processed on our return. Thank you!
Our shop will be on a break between January 4th – January 23rd. All orders placed between these dates will be processed on our return. Thank you!
A remembering and returning to Love.
This pillar is our foundation — The root of all wave-making.
The selfless act of using one’s time to make impactful change is, within itself, a loving act of kindness.
It is leading with compassion and choosing to do the internal work so that we can always find our way back to love. It is filling up our own cup, so that we have enough overflow to share with others.
How can we make generosity and connection as present as the air we breathe?
#STWLove #STWKindness
A remembering and returning to Love.
This pillar is our foundation — The root of all wave-making.
The selfless act of using one’s time to make impactful change is, within itself, a loving act of kindness.
It is leading with compassion and choosing to do the internal work so that we can always find our way back to love. It is filling up our own cup, so that we have enough overflow to share with others.
How can we make generosity and connection as present as the air we breathe?
#STWLove #STWKindness
British Columbia, Canada – Turtle Island
Every Sunday we distribute 250 fresh meals and 250 street relief packs to our unhoused siblings. This includes water, food, snacks, narcan, safer use kits,
Chatham County, NC – Iroquoian and Siouan land
Queer Disability Aid (QDA) aims to empower disabled members of the LGBTQ2IA+ community to gain more agency over their lives and build support networks. The
Pueblo Nuevo, Ferreñafe, Lambayeque, Peru – Abya Yala
Nyota (which means star in Swahili) is a project that aims to improve the conditions of imprisoned women and the children who live with them
Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change. And yet its basic truth, its restorative power, has been forgotten. In Healing Resistance, leading Kingian Nonviolence trainer Kazu Haga blazingly reclaims the energy and assertiveness of nonviolent practice (utilized by the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter), and proves that nonviolent civil resistance remains the most effective strategy for social change in hostile
Documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan is determined to confront hate and prejudice by meeting some of the most extremist groups in the world. She has sat down with White Supremacists in the US and interviewed former Jihadists to further understand what drives people to join these groups. Her film “White Right: Meeting The Enemy” won an Emmy and is available on Netflix. We discuss the role politics, class, feminism and everything in between plays in relation to this
We all have work to do. Our work is in the light. We have no perfect moral ground to stand on, shaped as we are by this toxic complex time. We may not have time, or emotional capacity, to walk each path together. We are all flailing in the unknown at the moment, terrified, stretched beyond ourselves, ashamed, realizing the future is in our hands. We must all do our work. Be accountable and go heal, simultaneously, continuously. It’s never too
Kindness Is Contagious is a feel-good documentary by David Gaz, narrated by Catherine Ryan Hyde, the best selling author of the novel (and film) Pay It Forward. It’s a film all about being nice and the benefits of being nice. Kindness Is Contagious profiles cutting-edge scientists and best-selling authors from Berkeley to Harvard and everywhere in between as well as real life people from all walks of life whose lives illustrate their incredible
For generations, we’ve believed that man is driven only by ruthless self-interest. But over the past decade, this idea has been increasingly challenged. New research from fields as diverse as political science, psychology, sociology and experimental economics is forcing us to rethink human actions and
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform