By Stephanie Van Hook — 2019
Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”
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The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.
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