[Watch] LMU Yoga Day: Yoga & Social Change - The Workshop

A Workshop Designed to Educate Yoga Students, Teachers, and Allies on What it Means to Center Social Justice in Their Yoga Practice and Beyond:
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. 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.

Embody Yoga Teachings and Practices to Achieve 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.

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

What to Bring:

  • Journal

  • Water

  • An open mind and heart

ABOUT LMU YOGA DAY:

Join us for the 10-year anniversary of Yoga Day, our free, annual all-day offering that makes Yoga teachings accessible to all. This year, 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.

Taina Rodriguez-Berardi