Race & Equity in Yoga: Disruption As a Practice
Race & Equity in Yoga: Disruption As a Practice Facilitated by Kelley Palmer
$125-250 sliding scale | Enrollment opens August 10th
Tuesdays and Thursdays: August 18 , 20, 25 & 27 | All 4 sessions are 9:00am-12:00pm PST (12pm-3pm EST)
Find detailed schedule below.
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About the Course:
This course, Race & Equity in Yoga: Disruption As a Practice, is not simply an intellectual conversation about racism that leaves you even more confused about what to do.
It’s not a list of resources and books to read that leave you even more confused about your lane and how to stay in it.
Get clear on your role in dismantling white supremacy and activate your yoga practice for social justice. Start working toward the future you believe in with practical tools for self-study, dealing with uncomfortable conversations, and finding your focus. An interactive, live, 12-hour training to help yoga teachers understand the mechanisms and impacts of systemic racism, work towards sustainable solutions, and take responsibility for dismantling white supremacy in yoga.
We’ve created a space where you can come as you are, have the space to make mistakes, and learn and grow with other folks on this path. You can shift and expand your perspective. You can step into your power and create change. You can lean fully into a more equitable future in and out of wellness spaces.
The murder of George Floyd during the global COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed the largest civil rights movement in America’s history. The movement for Black lives has become front-and-center news. Widespread demonstrations, protests, and uprisings are causing our state and local governments to take a hard look at the role policing and prisons play in our society and the ways that resources are hoarded and unequally distributed among our citizens.
It is clear. A shift is necessary. But let’s be real: this isn’t a new problem. And since the dynamics of society are always replicated in our institutions, every industry from fashion to wellness is reckoning with its issues around race, equity, and social justice.
And since the dynamics of our institutions show up in our relationships, maybe you are finding yourself here, just one person, a yoga teacher, knowing you need to be part of this shift toward a more equitable world, but unsure of how to move forward.
Kelley Palmer is a writer, wellness advocate and community organizer committed to using the tools and philosophies of yoga to cultivate liberation, joy and peace for herself and others. Her connection to the living practice of yoga, a path of mindful wellness and self realization fuels her work, impacts her life and propels her to want to share it with others through her writing, events and guest teaching opportunities. She remains focused on making this healing practice accessible to all, connecting to communities that are normally excluded or ignored in mainstream wellness circles.
Being a mother of two liberated souls has created a point of focus that brings these tools to the way she is mothering them and also calling her to share this with all parents. Through in person and online offerings, Kelley centers her work on making these connections with authentic and sustainable tool building. Her writing, offerings and more about her can be found at www.peacefilledmama.com.
Schedule details:
Tuesday, August 18
, 9:00am-12:00pm PST (12pm-3pm EST)
Community Creation
We will focus on building a collaborative community including:
• Introductions of the facilitator and participants
• Building community agreements
• Seated Movement
• Guided Meditation
• Tools to lean into discomfort
• Guided Writing Exercises
Thursday, August 20,
9:00am-12:00pm PST (12pm-3pm EST)
Systems of Oppression Within Yoga Communities
We will focus on deepening our understanding of systems of oppression including:
• Building understanding of key terms
• Examining how this manifests on our work/communities
• Examining our personal histories on this system
• Group discussions of our collective experience
• Identifying our privilege and access
• Seated Movement
• Guided meditation
• Self Study Invitations
Tuesday, August 25, 9:00am-12:00pm PST (12pm-3pm EST)
Understanding Our Responsibility
We will focus on understanding our responsibility to shift culture including:
• Examining strategies for dismantling systems of oppression
• Identifying our individual practices to lean into activism
• Deepening our individual connections to liberation practices
• Investigating our part on upholding systems of oppression
• Questioning our held beliefs and practices
• Guided Meditation
• Self Study Questions
• Group Discussion
Thursday, August 27
, 9:00am-12:00pm PST (12pm-3pm EST)
Sustainable Solutions
We will focus on cultivating sustainable tools to move us forward including:
• Setting individual and collective intentions
• Cultivating tools to continue our self study
• Creating language shifts for our spaces and lives
• Resource sharing
• Question and Answer for final review
• Guided Meditation
• Seated Movement
• Self Study Reflection
• Group Discussion
