Day 1: December 12 from 7-9pm ET | 4-6pm PT
Day 2: December 14 from 11-2pm ET | 8-11am PT
Full Investment is $60 for the 2-day training. We highly recommend attending both days.
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Capacity for this event is limited so be sure to reserve your spot ASAP!
Join Dr. Sheena Sood for Foundations of Decolonizing Yoga: A Conversation and Training and apply a critical lens to your relationship with Yoga. Rather than settle for the mere insertion of brown faces in yogic spaces, this Foundations training examines the origins of yoga, the weaponized tentacles of the practice, and how the colonial and imperial layers of yoga are infused in contemporary practices and spaces.
This training disrupts the frameworks that equate decolonization with representation and identity politics and replaces it with an anti-oppressive and anti-imperial framework.
You will be guided to understand the significance of rooting the struggle to decolonize yoga through an ethics of social justice and collective liberation.
In this workshop, you will be invited to:
Relate the framework of decolonization to your own ancestral lineage.
Consider how orientalism, coloniality, caste-based supremacy and other structures of oppression are infused in contemporary yoga practices and spaces
Contemplate how the decolonization of yoga is not simply about race/representation/identity; it is also about its weaponization by imperial and neoliberal structures
Learn how to push back on homogenizing and & monolithic narratives of a cultural practice
Learn how to integrate your yoga practice to movements that advance decolonial and and healing justice ethics
Dialogue around examples of “colonized/weaponized yoga.”
Build your capacity to thoughtfully engage in your daily practice.
Develop a decolonized workshop series that’s tailored to your ancestry/community
You will be invited to co-create this learning space by building community agreements, participating in group work, engaging in reflective practices (such as meditation and journaling), learning through lecture and popular education activities, participating in embodied yoga practices, and interacting with other participants through breakout rooms and assignments.
Please sign up in advance to have ample time for all suggested pre-work.