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 the @loyolamarymount 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. Join in person, or virtually.
ALSO, I’ll be facilitating two virtual offerings this year:
📌9:20 - 10:30 AM PDT
“Where Do We Go From Here?” A Reflection on The Graduate Yoga Studies Podcast [panel & live recording]
Featuring my Season 1 co-host Serenity Tedescao and panelists Tracy Tiemeier, Ph.D, Shyam Ranganathan, Ph.D, Marsha Banks-Harold, and Giri Bhai, MA (John Flicker)
This special episode will feature a panel of previous guests and LMU Yoga Studies community members to reflect upon how the world and subsequently the yoga industry has changed in the past year. This will be an interactive experience where the audience will be encouraged to engage with panelists, ask questions, and share their experiences. Together, we'll collectively contemplate the following questions:
How have things changed in the past year for yoga practitioners, teachers, and scholars in a post-pandemic/post-social-awaked world?
How do Social Justice and capitalism coexist in the modern yoga industry? Or, can they?
What is progress from yogic perspective? Is progress based on outcomes, effort, individual survival, collective liberation?
📌4:40 - 5:50 PM PDT
YOGA + SOCIAL CHANGE: Cultivating Accessibility, Diversity, and Equity in YOUR Yoga Community
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. 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. 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.
Workshop Includes: Critical analysis of historical texts, timelines, and “ancient” vs. “modern” yoga practices // Introspection on honoring the origins of yoga // Guided meditation, visualization, journaling, and group discussion