Join guest presenter Taina Rodriguez-Berardi at Loyola Marymount University for the 11th Annual Yoga Day - free celebration of Yoga traditions, experiences, and its many expressions.

Embodied Intersectionality -- An Accessible Yoga & Social Change Practice

As intersectional beings yearning for connection and community, it is through the shared lived experience that we cultivate a sense of belonging and become bound in a solidarity of empathy and compassion. Though, we also find ourselves bound by systems of inequality based on historical, political, and cultural social constructs that deepen the dynamics of difference. In this embodied yoga and social change practice, we will examine how one’s multifaceted identity, with regard to the intersection of gender, race, gender expression, sexual orientation, class, age, ability level, geographic location and other key social identifiers, determines one’s proximity to power and privilege, or disenfranchisement towards marginalization and oppression. Together we will hold ourselves accountable for action and advance the realization of accessible, just, and equitable embodied practices for all. With a concentration on education, advocacy, and community building, Yoga & Social Change incorporates Yoga philosophies and practices as tools for personal growth and powerful instruments of individual and communal transformation. This will be an all-levels, restorative, and gentle physical practice that will otherwise challenge and stimulate the connective tissue of the mind-body-spirit complex. Bring your yoga mat, props, journal, and an open heart.

New Virtual Workshop— Unpacking Appropriation in Wellness on Sunday, August 21 from 5-7PM PT

ABOUT: Social justice change-making operates on shared values of challenging limiting beliefs, breaking-down divisive barriers, and repairing harm when possible.

In this workshop, we will use a social justice framework to consider the sources, emblems, and power dynamics of cultural appropriation within wellness spaces.

We will also investigate the embedded nature of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy that creates separation and harm within our lived experience.

To sign-up and for more info: ReikaYoga.com

Join One Love Movement for our fundraising event to help make wishes come true this holiday season!

Super excited for Loyola Marymount University’s 10th annual YOGA DAY 2021 — Saturday, October 2nd!

This year’s FREE event will take place on-campus for LMU students, staff, and faculty, as well as on Zoom for the wider global community! We will continue our conversation about how Yoga can be a vehicle for social justice, specifically exploring the paradox of singularity and plurality. We are also honored to welcome Rev. James Lawson to receive the Doshi Bridgebuilder Award on International Nonviolence Day, Gandhi's birthday.

I’ll be facilitating two virtual offerings this year!

Taina Rodriguez-Berardi is a guest lecturer in the Sojourn Healing Collective Fall 2021 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training. Taina will be teaching two advanced modules: Introduction to Sanskrit and History of Modern Yoga for Social Change. If you are interested in learning more: https://sojourn-healing-collective.mykajabi.com/yoga-teacher-training

Join Loyola Marymount University Yoga Studies Graduate Assistants Serenity Tedesco and Taina Rodriguez-Berardi for the inaugural season of the podcast where they challenge the popular understanding of yoga and the field of yoga studies with critical questions about authenticity, race, social justice, appropriation, colonialism, power dynamics, accessibility, and more.

In Yoga Collective 300-hr Yoga Teacher Training will feature guest teacher Taina Rodriguez-Berardi for a workshop focused on her advanced training modules: History of Modern Yoga and Yoga + Social Change.

GRAD SKU 2 IS HERE! Presented by Dr. Kiona and @HowNotToTravelLikeABasicBitch

Taina will be presenting a talk on untapped resources and her experience as a grad student government leader, or “How to Look For & Secure Untapped Resources Like a Smart Ass Bitch!”

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A mini-course for yoga students and teachers, wellness practitioners, and allies wanting to help cultivate accessible, diverse, and equitable sacred spaces and be a catalyst for social change. Social justice change-making operates on shared values of breaking-down divisive barriers and challenging limiting beliefs about intersectional identities such as ability, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, body image, and criminal background.

Learn How to Embody Yoga Practices as Means of Achieving Individual AND Collective Liberation. With a concentration on decolonization, advocacy, and community building, we will learn how to engage Yoga philosophies and practices as tools for personal growth and powerful instruments of communal transformation.

Yoga and Social Change Workshop

with Taina Rodriguez-Berardi, MBA, E-RYT 200

12 pm – 3 pm PT

An Intensive Workshop on Accessibility, Diversity, and Equity in the Yoga Studio and Beyond. Social justice changemaking in sacred spaces operates on shared values of breaking-down divisive barriers and challenging limiting beliefs about intersectional identities such as ability, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, body image, and criminal background.

Learn How to Embody Yoga Practices as Means of Achieving Individual AND Collective Liberation. With a concentration on decolonization, advocacy, and community building, we will learn how to engage Yoga philosophies and practices as tools for personal growth and powerful instruments of communal transformation.

A Workshop Designed to Educate Yoga Students and Teachers on What it Means to Center Social Justice in Their Yoga Practice. This is an immersive workshop for yoga students, teachers, wellness industry entrepreneurs and allies wanting to cultivate accessible, diverse, and equitable sacred spaces and be a catalyst for social change.

Includes:

· Guided Conversations: assumptions, agreements, shared language, introspective journaling

· Critical Analysis of: historical texts, philosophy, Sanskrit, “ancient” & “modern” yoga practices

· Yoga as Radical Care: embodied āsana, prāṇāyāma & meditation

What to Bring:

· Yoga Mat

· Journal

· Water

· Comfy clothes you can move and breath in

· An open mind and heart

Investment: $50 per person

· This workshop qualifies for 3 Yoga Alliance CE hours.

· This is a virtual offering.

· The Zoom link will be sent out the week of the workshop. Recording of the session will be available for one month afterwards.