In an era of modern yoga that is synonymous with privilege and whiteness, creating space for open and honest dialogue is valuable for yoga communities to recognize the separation they may cause or perpetuate. Separation can take many forms—ableist language used by uninformed yoga teachers, marketing materials that lack diversity or tokenize, studios that don’t provide props or aren’t designed for varied practice needs, yoga conferences or festivals that refuse to platform people of color, yoga teacher trainings that spend little time or effort teaching about diverse populations or yoga beyond āsana and/or content that contributes to the erasure of yoga’s South Asian roots or varied history.
Serenity @yogawithserenity and I will be going live on Instagram with our candid conversation series 𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 (Friday 5/29/20 at 12PM PST) to discuss yoga and social justice in the context of individualized and systemic trauma and injustice within yoga spaces and beyond. We look at this as an opportunity to create open conversation and learning. I hope you will join us!
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𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘨𝘢 & 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺!