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Cause the desert, she must be blessed. Welcome to Never Shut Up. I'm your host Rose Crass. Today is March 31st, 2026, and we are talking about Tori's song, Juarez.
This song is about bearing witness. It's about holding space for atrocities while understanding that we are blessed to be privileged to hold that space. We stand silent in our power and we are a guardian of spirit. So we don't let our spirit become dampened because there are atrocities around us.
Tori talks about this song as being the voice of the desert and the quote that really spoke to me the most about this song and made me dive in a little deeper into the song was that the desert was obviously the only thing that heard her last breath. And she's talking about traffic people. But how do you have the capacity to hold space for others when so much is going on? This is really where practice comes into play and we do need to develop our inner fortitude to hold space for other people.
So we've already done Kali pose, but there's a really nice posture, breath and mood drop mix that we're going to do. So you do need to be standing for this. So obviously not driving your car. We are going to use Kali Mudra in this.
So Kali Mudra you interlace your fingers so that your right thumb is on top. Allow the palms to remain in contact, but release your index fingers. So your index fingers are pointed up from here. You can release the mudra.
I just wanted to give you a sense of the mudra before we move into our practice. So coming to standing, we're going to step our feet wide apart for that Kali pose, which we've done before. So your feet are maybe three, four feet apart and the toes are angled out a little bit. We inhale here and then with the exhale, we come down into that wide-legged squat.
Inhale, rise up a little bit. Exhale, release down. So allow your body, the pose, to pulse with your breath. The breath is not just an undulation that moves through the spine.
It moves through the whole pose. We're not static individuals, so holding a static pose is not easy for the body. So we'll inhale here. Exhale, release into your deeper squat.
Bring your hands down in between, well, etch center. The palms touching, arms are straight. Then inhale, sweep the arms up out to your sides. Bring the arms all the way up overhead while maintaining your deeper squat.
Interlace your fingers into your Kali mudra. Release index fingers. And then with the exhale, sink that Kali mudra in a nice line. Down through center as you deepen into your squat again.
And then release the hands. Inhale, sweep the arms out to the side. Reaching up. Interlace your fingers for your Kali mudra.
Exhale, draw that mudra down through center. We're strengthening. Keep going. Inhaling, sweeping out and up.
Interlacing, Kali mudra. Exhale, drawing down through center. Keep going. We're embodying embracing that energy of the desert, the strong, silent power, the guardian of the spirit.
Kali, guardian of the spirit, the strength, the fortitude to bear witness to know that, yes, things do have to be torn down. Destruction does need to happen so that new things can be built up. It is the process of life. Is it devastating?
Yes, it's also devastating. But to be in the desert, to live in the desert, it takes a certain amount of fortitude to be in that energy, that energy that's tearing down a little bit. It's not an easy life living the desert. Even if you do live in a city, it's not an easy life.
When you're ready, when you're good and strong, step your feet together. Stand for a moment with palms open, receptive to your energy, noticing that strength that you've awoken in your legs. And with that, I thank you for joining me and Tori for Little Mental Yoga today. Remember, five minutes a day, so much better than 60 minutes once a week.
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