Over 6 weeks, we will work to:
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Overcome isolation
Be seen, be heard and feel validatedÂ
Reclaim our own power and decolonizing our own mindsets
Find our voices and use them to uplift ourselves and others
Unpack Anti-Blackness, Casteism and other types of Supremacist Culture
Own our individual stories and reframe them to serve us.
Connect to our roots and ancestral wisdom
Celebrate the diversity of our cultures and connect with like-minded community
An Indian yoga practitioner in the Hatha yoga tradition, Susanna Barkataki helps you lead, live and honor yoga’s roots. Founder of Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute, E-RYT 500, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), she runs 200/500 Honor Yoga Trainings. She has an Honors degree in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Education from Cambridge College. Barkataki is a diversity, accessibility, inclusivity, and equity (DAIE) educator who inspires impactful leadership with yoga. And author of the forthcoming book Honor Yoga’s Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice. She sees a world where yoga is a liberation practice that unites us all and excludes no one.
Lakshmi Nair is a yoga educator, engaged in reclaiming the pre-patriarchal, non-hierarchical indigenous resilience and resistance of her ancestral tradition of yoga and creating spaces for herself and others to authentically engage with the practices of yoga for self and collective healing and liberation. Lakshmi created a yoga immersion and teacher training program exclusively for BIPOC in Denver, Colorado that has since grown into Satya Yoga Cooperative, the first BIPOC owned and operated yoga co-op in the country.
Jesal is a yoga teacher, movement educator, podcaster, author, and disrupter working on creative solutions for equity in yoga. She is one of the co-hosts of the Yoga is Dead podcast and is the Co-Director of Yoga Teachers of Color. Jesal's mission is to uplift those of us who are feeling isolated and marginalized by the yoga industry.Â
Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization founded in 2012 that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. Our mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.
