Sacred Lessons in Mental Health: Art, Identity & Healing

In this episode of Sacred Lessons, host Mike de la Rocha sits with Ernesto Yerena, renowned movement artist, cultural storyteller, and truth-teller whose work has shaped a generation of organizers and creatives. Together, they explore how art can become both resistance and medicine, born from the frontera, ancestral memory, and the search for identity. Ernesto speaks candidly about anxiety and his health, offering a rare and vulnerable conversation about mental health among men of color. This episode is a powerful reminder that healing happens in community and that creativity, culture, and lineage can guide us back to ourselves.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.