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Join our live-online Open House to learn more about our first scholarship-based BIPOC Teacher Training (TT). Integral Yoga San Francisco has been leading trainings for forty years. This training meets the standards recognized by Yoga Alliance.

The training will be fully staffed by some of our most experienced BIPOC teachers and offered to BIPOC students on a scholarship-basis. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

The 2021 BIPOC TT primary teaching staff includes Rev. Kamala Itzel Hayward, Mia Velez, and Mukunda Marc Morozumi, and anatomy with Arturo Peal.

At the open house:

• Meet several members of the all BIPOC teaching staff
• Explore the importance of a program specifically to address systemic racism and lack of equity in the yoga community
• Discuss how this training has been effectively transitioned to online and how we use modern technology to support the ancient technology of the yogic teachings
• Have all of your questions about the training answered

This 200-hour Basic Yoga Teacher Training offers a path towards being a knowledgeable yoga teacher for in person or online classes.  We are committed to providing a safe, equitable and high quality program for all participants.

Please visit our BIPOC TT webpage for more details and to apply.

The BIPOC TT is by application only, deadline is May 15th.

Rev. Kamala Itzel Hayward, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT is a compassionate and fierce advocate for love. After serving as a public policy lawyer for 13 years, Itzel left her legal career and founded Attuned Living, a mindfulness and wellness organization that helps individuals heal the sense of separation they feel from others—or even from themselves. Her unique work—based on the teachings of yoga, mindfulness, and compassionate communication—ranges from promoting social justice work within organizations and communities to guiding individuals on their search for personal and professional fulfillment. Today, she holds retreats, classes, trainings, and private one-on-one sessions online, over the phone, and in person with people from all over the world. Her mission is to gently remind you of your individual wholeness and your interconnectedness with others and all of life. Learn more at www.attunedliving.com.

Mia Velez entered the Integral Yoga Sangha in 2016 through the kitchen by helping to cook Thursday community lunches and silent retreat meals. In 2018 she certified as an Integral Yoga teacher to learn more of the IYI approach and be part of the lineage. Mia is a disciple of the Moy Yat Ving Tsun Kung Fu lineage and is highly influenced by her martial arts training. After completing her first 200 hour teacher training in 2008, she began to see undeniable parallel in Yoga and Kung Fu. When she began teaching Kung Fu in 2014, she incorporated Yoga insight and principles in her classes. Her goal in teaching is to connect with the students and to facilitate a safe space for exploration and self inquiry. Yoga and Kung Fu is integrated into her daily life as a mother, a preschool teacher, and an advocate for gender, race and class equality through multiple non-profits groups.

Mukunda Marc Morozumi, E-RYT 500, CMT, Lead Yoga Teacher Trainer, began practicing Ashtanga yoga in 2001 while a full-time modern dancer with Joe Goode Performance Group in SF, CA. Due to injury, Mukunda retired from his 12 year dance career in 2004 and entered the events industry from 2004-2016. A 2-month personal trip to India in 2007 paved the way for landing in Yogaville in 2009 for his first teacher training with Swami Divyananda and staff. One month after returning from graduation, Mukunda began teaching a Saturday morning class at the SF IYI which he maintained for over 10 years. Mukunda has co-led Integral Yoga retreats since 2011 and has staffed or co-led Basic Teacher Trainings since 2013. He has opened and managed small group yoga studios in SF since 2017 and in early 2020, he opened and then reformed a yoga center post COVID-19: Mukunda Yoga – Activation and Well-being Center in SOMA, SF, CA.

Arturo Peal has spent over 30 years inspiring and educating yoga teachers, body workers, and movement specialists across the globe through his classes in Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Therapeutic Touch. With a unique gift for translating complex scientific concepts into tangible teachings for his students, he raises awareness of how the body works.
Arturo holds a Master’s degree in Chinese medicine, and has practiced therapeutic massage for over 40 years. He is a 5th degree black belt in Aikido, and is the Chief Instructor at Aikido of New Orleans.

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