coming up, he kept saying, “Seane, you’re crazy, you’re nuts.” Well, it turned out he was cheating on me and I remember saying to him, that it was ultimately... the cheating was forgivable, but the part to me that was the biggest insult is that he knew that the thing I relied on more than anything else in my entire life was my intuition, and to look me in the eye and to ask me to second-guess my intuition, that to me was the bigger betrayal. And that to me, that hurt more than anything else, that you would make me second guess what I know in my heart is true.
This is my art, this
is my soul. I really trust my intuition. My intuition is everything to me.
It motivates me. It’s gotten me in trouble, because it’s often asked me to make choices that my fear necessarily didn’t want to make, but my gut was like “this is what has to happen.” It’s never misled me though, and the only time I’m misled is when I second guess that knowing. And to me, that’s crazy. I don’t really get called “crazy” though. I get called a lot of things: too much, too big, too loud. It’s that T-O-O word that I also think really blocks women. I always say that I’m really grateful to my mother that she always encouraged me to be too much, too big, too loud. To celebrate it, never change it. As a result, I feel really comfortable in my skin. Other people might not feel comfortable with me, but I’m okay with the T-O-O word. I wasn’t really when I was young, and I see a lot of other women block themselves from being too much or too big. As a result, they play too small.
You can ask me anything. There’s really nothing that I wouldn’t share… you know there’s that saying, “You’re only as sick as your secrets.” And I don’t have any secrets.
I’ll talk about anything. I want to be part of the conversation that breaks any kind of shame. It’s about empowerment. Life happens. Shit happens. It’s about what you do with it, that’s where the grace lies.
I don’t think of you as an activist, I think you’re a decent human being, and it sometimes is so strange that we have to put these labels on it.
I feel the same way. That term around me gets coined a lot that I’m an activist and I just think, I’m a f**king humanist. I’m just out there doing what I know should be done and using my voice to make this happen. But I don’t feel like there’s anything extraordinary to what I’m doing, I feel like I’m doing what I should be doing.
Look for Part II of this interview in our next issue.
Seane Corn is an internationally celebrated yoga teacher known for her impassioned activism and inspirational style of teaching. A strong and articulate voice for social change, she started her activism work by creating the yoga program for L.A. shelter “Children of the Night.” Since 2006, her work has been focused on training leaders of activism through the organization she cofounded, Off the Mat, Into the World® and bringing awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Over the last 20 years of her career, Seane has been featured in magazines,
Oprah.com, The Huffington Post, numerous radio programs such as NPR, and four self-authored dvd programs, and in 2005, was named the National Yoga Ambassador for YouthAIDS. She sits on the board of both the Cambodian Children’s Fund and the Engage Network.
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