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Monique Sundree Rodgers

@monique.sundree

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✨ ecologist ~ ultra-runner ~ free-diver
♥️ all for JOY, Freedom & Love
🌿 @faunafloraint
🌍 @salzburgglobal fellow
✊🏾 @climateyouthresilience ambassador

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SALZBURG GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY FELLOW 🌊🌲👩🏾‍🔬🖤🎉

(👩🏾‍🔬 = researcher/fellow. It’s the closest thing I could find in the emoji selection).

I’m honoured & humbled (+ very excited) to have been selected as a Salzburg Global Public Policy New Voices Europe Fellow!

My fellows are a collective of incredibly passionate and visionary humans from 11 countries representing 21 nationalities. The intention of the fellowship is to use public policy to build inclusive communities where decolonisation and diversity are valued and prioritised not for the need to tick a box but genuinely listening, working through and putting in place frameworks of care. Because a different world is very possible. The resources, practices and most importantly the force 🔥 to want to make it happen actually exist, very prolifically.

My fellows are predominantly Global South citizens based in the Global North looking to collaborate and to learn what different organisations are implementing from an inclusive policy level, how that’s impacted respective communities and how to work with/ share those models in each of our communities.

EDI is the acronym for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity. In my work, I use: *Equity*, *Decolonisation* and Inclusivity. Equality and diversity are concepts that treat the symptom, they are only short-term solutions based. Equity and decolonisation are listening, opening to ugly truths, digging deep, weeding them out, and moving forward. It is ugly, challenging, confusing, requires time and there’s much resistance. But it is also life-giving, whole-making, healing, and regenerative and forms the foundation for real long-standing change.

📷: @winstonsussens 🙏🏾✨ by @monique.sundree

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Thank you for today. ✨

📷: @caramelslicesachy by @monique.sundree

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I was in forum with @winonaladuke and @kuminaidoo on a conversation on Designing an Economy beyond Capitalism and Colonialism.

It was an unscripted studio show for @aljazeeraenglish.

We spoke about recognising privilege in the climate justice space, the responsibility of privilege and civil agency.

Thank you to the show producer, Ahmed Madi for the compassionate way you work with people, it was an honour and a pleasure. taken in Studio B by @monique.sundree

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From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. 🇵🇸🍉🤲🏾

#ceasefire #ceasefirenow #ceasefireingazanow #freepalestine #freefreepalestine #makeitstop #makeitstopnow by @monique.sundree

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🇵🇸🤲🏾❤️✊🏾 #freepalestine #ceasefire

Protest art by @parushanaidoo___ 🙏🏾🙏🏾 by @monique.sundree

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I’m in📍Salzburg this week part of @salzburgglobal’s Advancing Together: Empowering Diverse Leadership in Public Policy.

The seminar is the culmination of a yearlong fellowship on public policy. I’m presenting on decolonisation with two other fellows from the UK.

This fellowship & seminar is hope-giving. I am in awe when I listen to my fellows — it is an honour to take up space with you here & now.

Thank you @salzburgglobal for the space & support. When organisations resource dialogue & action — it renews & fuels me. 🙏🏾✨ taken in Salzburg Global by @monique.sundree

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“When I put down what is not mine to carry, I am free.” these words are @octaviaraheem’s 🤍 from her collection of poetry & soulful sayings, Gather.

@octaviaraheem your words have been a soft place for me to rest my heart & head. nandri 🙏🏾❤️ taken in Salzburg, Austria by @monique.sundree

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#lakedistrict #lakedistrictnationalpark #lakedistrictuk #lakedistrictcumbria #swimuk# #coldwaterswimminguk #coldwaterswimming #coldwatertherapy #conistonwater #conistoncoppermines #waterfall #crystalclearwater #crystalclearwater #summeruk2023 #summer2023 taken in Lake District National Park by @monique.sundree

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Changing Seasons ✨

The next two Wednesdays will be my last classes @nirodhah.yogastudio. 🧘🏾‍♀️🤸🏾‍♀️Class times & signup in bio.

Teaching yoga the past year has been an enormous source of purpose, community and belonging. Thank you to @nirodhah.yogastudio and the community that manifested & breathed life into this part of who I am. 💖

Looking forward to the new chapter. 🎉🌈✨ taken in Ulverston, Cumbria by @monique.sundree

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ancestral map

when i wish i had more pictures of my mom & i,
i remember i look like her.

when i look at these images
i see my mothers eyes, her smile,
i see my grandmother’s nose,
my grandfather’s likeness,

when i long to see them, i look in the mirror,
i trace my fingers over the top of my nose, i feel over a bone in the middle, there it is, my grandpa’s bridged nose.

when i long to feel them close, i remember their legacy of love lives on in every cell in my body. by @monique.sundree

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daughter of the wind. 🌬️
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Gradually getting around to processing pictures from being on home ground 🇿🇦 (yup from almost 2 months ago…I had to hit the ground running this side 🇬🇧).

Expect short photo series’ hanging out with my nephews, surfing/skating videos and recommendations from our time up the Garden Route & general Cape Town magic.✨

series of images captured by @eemaanphotography @just_eemaan 🙏🏾 thank you for the way you held the experience. taken in Cape Town, South Africa by @monique.sundree

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The next Mindfulness and Meditation Training Course is at the end of the month. 💫

Saturday & Sunday | 27 & 28 May | 11am - 5pm

The 2-day course dives into how to integrate mindfulness and meditation into your practice and teaching. If you’d like to gain a better understanding of mindfulness and meditation for your personal practice, or if you’re a yoga teacher who’d like to teach mindfulness and meditation as part of yoga classes, workshops, retreats, corporate mindfulness and training.
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The course can be taken as a non-yoga teacher or as a 15-hour Yoga Alliance Continuing Education (YACEP) module for Yoga Teachers.
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Upon completion, students will obtain a Yoga Alliance Accredited Certification to teach Mindfulness and Meditation.
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What the next M&M Teacher Training will look like:
Day 1: Practitioner Foundations
✨ Philosophy and physiology of mindfulness and meditation
✨ How to begin, integrate and maintain a practice
✨ Introduction to Breathwork Techniques
✨ Mindful Eating: why & how to practice
✨ How to Teach Creative Mindfulness Practices
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Day 2: A deeper dive for both teachers & practitioners
✨ How to teach and integrate meditation and mindful tools into your teaching
✨ How to teach mindfulness online & in-person
✨ How to teach meditation online & in-person
✨ Mindfulness for Social Impact and Activism
✨ Inclusivity & Accessibility: What do inclusivity and accessibility mean? What does it look like? What is our responsibility as teachers in this sphere? How do we navigate our field mindfully?
✨ Workshop: Teaching Style
✨ Meditation and mindfulness Teaching Practicals
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Cost: R2500
Enquiries: goldenwildgoldenwild@gmail.com
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#yogasouthafrica #yogateacher #yogateachertraining #training #meditationcourse #mindfulness #yogateachers by @monique.sundree

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