Janae Dixon, a seasoned educator and lifelong student, meets with us to dive deep into the realm of education reform and restoration.

During this conversation you’ll hear about:

• The importance of being a life-long learner
• The power of joy and fostering creativity
• How trust and respect goes a long way between educators and students
• Advocating for professional development for your own interests
• Fostering wellbeing and mindfulness in the educators life
• Restoration being a year round experience, not just for the summer break
• How nutrition is a key part of education reform
• Fostering spaces for youth to be in positions of leadership

just to name a few :)

The links of the resources spoken about in this conversation are:

⁠Breathe for Change⁠ | a mindfulness and wellness journey for educators

⁠Vortex Vision⁠ | an episode about friendships and relationships

⁠The Boys and Girls Club of MetroSouth⁠

If you’re excited to stay in touch with Janae or reach out to her, you can do so by emailing ⁠jchnae6@gmail.com⁠

To stay in contact with ⁠Renée Jeanne Lemieux⁠ you can find her on the lands of:

Instagram ⁠@reneejeannelemieux⁠

Youtube ⁠@iamreneelemieux⁠

Emailing support@reneejeannelemieux.com

We're rising together as we brave forward individually and collectively. See you next time, on this streaming platform, as we dive deeper into the realm of education reform!

Trigger Warning: In this episode we talk about oppressive systems and briefly mention physical harm done to another.

In this week’s episode we meet with Selena Jaramillo, a licensed educator, yoga teacher, and Ethnic Studies advocate.

Selena's vision for the future of education is rooted in community centers and elevating the movement of Ethnic Studies.

In this conversation you will explore authenticity with youth, connecting with your inner wisdom, Social Emotional Learning and how SEL is often dehumanizing, Ethnic Studies, and so much more.

To stay connected with Selena meet her over at @nepantlahealingspace and/or @selenalaxicana

Season Two is ALL ABOUT Education Reform and we are honored to welcome you in as a listener and co-creator of this conversation.

It is our intention, prayer, and vision to have all the conversations taking place within this season to be seeds planted in the fertile soils of what is possible for education in America for the years to come.

To stay connected with Renée meet her over on Instagram at @reneejeannelemieux or YouTube at @iamreneelemieux

Tune back for future conversations!

Brave forward honnies, this is only just the beginning.

In episode two, of season two, we meet with our first guest speaker of the season Casey Deschene.

Casey is the owner of Lighthouse Yoga in North Andover, MA, a new mama to her newly born son, and teacher of yoga.

In this conversation we dive into the parallel similarities between teaching a yoga class/teaching students in a yoga certification program and teaching youth in an educational school setting.

Stepping outside of the box, the importance of structure, elevating life skills, safety in self, safety in environment is just a small bit of what is talked about in this episode.

To stay connected with Casey meet her over on her Instagram at: @caseydescheneyoga or @light_house_yoga

Season Two is ALL ABOUT Education Reform and we are honored to welcome you in as a listener and participator of co-creating this conversation.

It is our intention, prayer, and vision to have all the conversations taking place within season two to be seeds planted in the fertile soils of what is possible for education in America for the years to come.

To stay connected with Renée meet her over on Instagram at @reneejeannelemieux or YouTube at @iamreneelemieux

Tune back in for future episodes!

Brave forward honnies, this is only just the beginning!

Welcome to Season Two honnies! The red thread this season is all about Education Reform ... we know, we're stoked too :)

This introductory episode touches briefly on Renée's history with education and the ed system, along with the vision of what is possible for this coming season.

Sit back, open your heart, and get ready for a stellar season!

P.S. if you enjoy this podcast and the conversations that move through this space, we would love for you to scroll up and rate this pod 🫶🏼 .

PART TWO of the two part series to wrap up Season 1 of The Forward Movement Podcast.

Ke’oni, raised by his grandmother, a well known mystic on the island of Maui, has deep knowledge derived directly from the Hawaiian lineage and the ancient Mu lineage, spanning 1,017 generations.

Ke’oni’s body of work is the sharing of his lineage, in union with his own expressions. Ke'oni shares that the human is a consciousness based in movement.

Some golden nuggets from Ke’oni that came through from our conversation:

“Is that the trajectory of humanity is transhumanism, which would be the removal of the soul.”

“There’s a kind of completion that is happening. This calendar that Lyra wants to present to us is a calendar of completions in a way.”

“It does seem like that is an implanted disorientation, purposeful implantation of disorientation. Look at the result, we are a culture of war, that’s a result, that’s a consequence of disorientation.”

“There’s two primary laws of life, one is feminine, one is masculine. The masculine primary law of life is do no harm. The feminine primary law of life is consent.”

“Many of us are manipulated, and thus we offer consent.”

“What is one of the greatest things a calendar does? It reorients us.”

“What is a calendar of completion? What does that look like? What’s the behavior of that?”

“When I look in children’s eyes I see wonder, I see awe. They are available for wonder and awe. And conditioned humans, perhaps of our generation, are so saturated with suspicion. With this fixation on crisis, that you know, our eyes don’t reflect wonder and awe anymore.”

“Our emotions is really what determines our behavior, it determines our beliefs, our choices.”

“And we are reorienting ourselves to an evolved pattern.”

“We must evolve to the new calendar.”

“My perspective of the world has changed drastically, the world may be conducting itself in the same way, but my perspective of the world has changed drastically in my own affirmation of my own belonging.”

“Begin to have a conversation about what it means for you to belong.”

“I am allowed to tap into my sacredness to say, please inform me, how may I conduct myself today? I call this the free fall, you just free fall into your sacredness, it catches you. It’s called affluence.”

“It’s good to reinform that this world and this consciousness is really friendly. It’s really friendly. Allow it to be your friend, your ally. Begin to have conversations with it, begin to negotiate with it. And thus we take of this separation that we’ve implanted, which I feel has led to such incredible desperation in this planet.”

“Relax back into the friendliness of this universe … this is a playground, not a battleground.”

To join Ke’oni in community, you can find him over on Instagram: @pohala_hawaiin_botanicals or at www.pohala.net

Thank you brother for the consciousness expanding conversation!

We’re rising together dear ones … Season One is a wrap! See you all on the other side 😘

With Love and Gratitude,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

PART ONE of the two part series to wrap up Season 1 of The Forward Movement Podcast.

Ke’oni, raised by his grandmother, a well known mystic on the island of Maui, has deep knowledge derived directly from the Hawaiian lineage and the ancient Mu lineage, spanning 1,017 generations. Ke’oni’s body of work is the sharing of his lineage, in union with his own expressions. Ke'oni shares that the human is a consciousness based in movement. Some golden nuggets from Ke’oni that came through from our conversation: “The disruptions in my life were my unwillingness to move forward.” “Many people I think today, when they translate this word Affluence, perhaps it has a lot to do with money or wealth, but the true definition of affluence means to be in flow.” “One of the consequences of exhaust is revolt.” “This is an electrical experience that we’re all having and the greatest impotence of our electrical experience, as humans, is our emotions.” “My belonging has already been determined. There I am no longer reaching to be validated in that by playing out all these different parts, to get the validation from the exterior conditions…” “The great pivot is so incredibly important, because it can reorient us into our true nature.” “I negotiate. This means that nothing is overpowering me nor am I in the favor of overpowering anything else. I’m meeting things in equal measure.” “We’re here to make contributions.” “When agitation is so high, we’re going to react. The unfortunate thing about reaction is that it pretty much disqualifies me from quality.” “If it doesn’t have quality, it doesn’t have longevity.” To join Ke’oni in community, you can find him over on Instagram: @pohala_hawaiin_botanicals or at www.pohala.net Thank you brother for the consciousness expanding conversation! We’re rising together dear ones … keep your eyes peeled for PART TWO of this conversation! With Love and Gratitude, Renée Jeanne Lemieux

Know Thyself

Trigger Warning: In this episode we briefly talk about the cruelty and death that is taking place through genocides and war crime. The perspective shared here is simply one view, of many, that leans towards the belief that we individually have the power to create heaven on earth. May you receive all that feels good and may you let go of anything that doesn't align with your own belief systems. May this episode support the highest good of humanity across all space and time. And so it is.

In this week’s episode we meet with Colleen Lindstrom, an intelligently wise doctor who is currently reminding the collective that, YOU are the one you’ve been waiting for.

From Doctor of Chiropractic to Doctor of Divinity, here she comes! Colleen believes that we’re more than just our physical body and we can heal from anything.

Some golden nuggets from Colleen during this conversation:

“Forward movement for me is a spark inside that keeps me moving.”

“It’s always been me, it’s always been me choosing to educate and gain more wisdom and knowledge from what I already know or what I am hungry or seeking for.”

“Allowing for the heart to rise and speak and give the vision to the mind.”

“All of us came from Heaven. All of us came from, we all have the same, it’s just how many veils or traumas or untruths are we giving our power away to?”

“In the work that I do, first it’s the goal of the other…then my goal is to help them know to themselves. Know thyself, heal thyself, know thy energy, um know thy higher self be connected to that voice.”

“We all add like a symphony to the one song and when we are singing our song by showing up as the “I am” and authentically expressing we’re adding to the one song and that creates that God is good, it creates the harmony, it creates the truth, and the miracles, and the shift in consciousness.”

“The pulse of the higher self it, it has a boundary, and it’s usually more strong and solid.”

“My dream is to have healing hospitals and haven schools and these are places where individuals are healing through ancient and new medicine, energy medicine, detoxing…”

“We need the duality, we need the, it felt so good to be in the body and like working on the pain, like you can’t feel that if you don’t have the pain, you don’t feel the good.”

“How important it is to know thyself, and know thy energy, and have boundaries, and listen to that inspired action.”

Book Colleen referenced: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy

To be in community with Colleen and receive from her, head to Colleen’s IG: @colleenlindstromdc or head over to www.drcolleenlindstrom.com

Colleen’s signature program “Heal Your Energy, Heal Your Life” is now available!

To continue the conversation of what Forward Movement means to you, direct message me, Renée Jeanne Lemieux, on Instagram @iamreneelemieux

We are moving forward together, through the act of individual curiosity 🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux

The Roots of Humanity

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With a heart full of gratitude I am deeply honored to welcome Riona to the room today. Riona identifies as a queer woman, a medicine woman, a healer, a spiritual teacher, an artist, and so much more. Her life’s focus is to foster space for medicine and magic, while she enters this new chapter of joining in union with play.

Riona focuses on the depths of the shadows within her and others. She perceives her life as a series of medicine, healing, and growth opportunities that she gets to play with. Riona riffs on the expression of Queer Joy and how we all have access to experiencing the feelings of Queer Joy, regardless of how they identify.

Here are a few life changing statements from Riona during our conversation:

“Forward momentum, forward movement really for me is so anchored within my spirituality, my spiritual practice, my spiritual teachings…”

“How can I just be more of a light for the world and it is just it’s my North Star for sure, and just has me keep going in that forward movement um even why times are HARD and challenging....”

“When you suppress something so big within your identity for so long there’s so much grief that comes up, there’s so much heartache that comes up, there’s also so much joy and liberation that also comes up…”

“Within our human experience we are tasked to deeply feel, if we choose to, to deeply feel what’s within us.”

“There’s a big shift that’s happening … this really is the most potent modality of healing, is to go into the thing directly and hold space for it, not just try to put a bandaid over it or wave a magic wand over it and hope it goes away.”

“To have our own inner world, where we are just really getting to know it, and it’s expansive nature and the depths of it.”

“To be a human being and to be one who’s deeply spiritual, it asks you to be in the human realm. And in the human realm there’s a lot of shit that happens.”

“How am I leading in this world that ultimately creates more light, but what are the shadows that I have to sit with in order for me to create more light?”

“I will forever be a student of this, of understanding my humanity.”

“How are you leading for all of humanity?”

“Allowing the body to be a very sacred vessel. So this is creating a relationship with your body where you feel yourself.”

“To me the body is the bridge that allows us to explore the shadows, and not be in the downward spiral, and also allows us to ascend upwards and play up there for a little bit and then come back down.”

Head over to Riona’s Instagram page to receive nurturing loving guidance within the realms of shadows of yourself and the expansiveness of the Akashic Records.

Riona's IG: @rionarising

Riona's Offering for our community: Free Monthly Akashic Record Readings through her email list | https://little-bonus-57647.myflodesk.com/qhgozyztys

We are moving forward together, through the act of individual curiosity 🫶🏼

With Love,

Renée Jeanne Lemieux