Internal Social Justice™

Hello Everyone! I’m Reya (she/her). I’m an acupuncturist with 25 years of clinical experience, a cultivator of internal practice, an anti-racist facilitator, a writer, a mother, a partner, a weirdo who loves plants, birds, and beauty, and the founder of the field of Internal Social Justice™. I’m currently on the path to publishing my Internal Social Justice™ book. I’m so excited for this journey we are embarking on together. I hope you keep walking with me. All love and an edge for justice, Reya Born

- Reya Born

Overwhelm is the unhealthy terrain that feeds our ongoing social conditioning into racial-bias. When we operate primarily from stress hormones, we become vulnerable. Yet, you can breathe yourself out of overwhelm. Practiced breath becomes a remedy for vulnerability and increases our resilience. My husband, Maketa Born – a lifetime meditator – says “you cannot change your mind with your mind, only your breath can do that.” Since overwhelm is perpetuated by the mind, the intellect, we cannot think ourselves out of it. But we can use conscious breath as a preventive measure to keep overwhelm from landing in the body and increasing our susceptibility to the lie of racial hierarchy. In this way, breath practice is an essential anti-racist tool.

- Reya Born

Good morning to you! Here is where I do my morning contemplation. My “PONDerings” I call it. Wisdom drops in when I allow myself this time to be present to the beginning of the day, to the birdsong, to the ways my body receives information from this land and through my senses.

- Reya Born