Block by Block, Heart by Heart: Dr. Lyla June, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg & Rae Abileah

About this episode

This episode explores the integration of spiritual practice and community organizing in fostering mutual care and resilience during uncertain times.

Recorded from a live SAND Gathering (February 2026). From Los Angeles to Minneapolis, communities are turning toward one another in a time of uncertainty, remembering that care begins close to home. Beyond public action, quieter networks of support are taking root: block-by-block relationships grounded in land, lineage, and love. This gathering explores how spiritual practice, trauma-aware care, and neighborhood organizing are being woven together as living traditions. We ask what it looks like to shift our energy from reactive mobilization toward steady, proactive organizing that can sustain us for the long haul. Drawing from Indigenous memory, Black freedom traditions, diasporic Jewish practices of care, and contemporary grassroots work, we reflect on how mutual care—feeding one another, tending grief, protecting children, honoring the dead—can be reclaimed as daily sacred practice. This is a conversation about blending spiritual practice and movement practice; about thinking smaller, closer, and more relational; and about learning from quiet, resilient forms of organizing that move people from isolation into coordinated courage. This conversation invites attunement: How do we…

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Lyla June, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, Rae Abileah

Topics covered

• community care
• spiritual practice
• neighborhood organizing
• trauma-aware care
• mutual aid
• resilience

Keywords

• community
• spirituality
• organizing
• care
• resilience
• traditions
• support

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Los Angeles, Minneapolis

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