Our first event was so well-received, we’re hosting two more: upcoming on September 30 in Carrboro, and Friday November 4 in Raleigh.
What is the relationship between your practice and the suffering of the world?
The tools of yoga are designed to foment liberation, resilience, and connection; we can skillfully use them or we can sorely abuse them. Our practice is either essentially selfless or it is utterly senseless. It either serves everyone or it serves no one.
We have to choose. We get to choose.
Which choice will we make?
Which side are we on?
NEW LOCATION: ADF BUILDING, 721 BROAD ST IN DURHAM
If possible, we will accommodate drop-ins, but will give preference to those who signed-up.
By Donation – All proceeds will support local, people of color-led efforts to reduce violence, increase accountability in policing, and preserve and protect Black and Brown lives.
The purpose of spiritual practice is to increase our capacity for compassionate action. Now more than ever, we are invited to flex our heart muscles and answer the call to reclaim our shared humanity; our practice can support us in showing up fully in this work. In holding compassionate space for our own and others’ feelings. In sticking with it even when it seems hard, uncomfortable, even overwhelming. We are called to use all our tools and skills to co-create the world we want to live in, one in which we can fully inhabit our whole selves and complex identities One in which we are all truly free, one in which we all get to thrive, one where everyone can feel connected.
Join Patty Adams and Michelle Johnson in a two hour anti-racist yoga convergence. As a multiracial teaching team, Patty and Michelle collectively have 38+ years working to dismantle racism and oppression, as well as 26+ years studying and teaching yoga.
This space will weave together the tools and practices of yoga and anti-racism, combining physical yoga (asana/postures) with other practices including life-giving breath work, self-reflection and collective conversation. You’ll also be given tools and resources to support your own commitment to the work of dismantling racism and white supremacy, to building a world without police violence, and to supporting the fullness and freedom of the black people and people of color in our communities.
We ask that you come prepared to be honest with yourself and others, to be vulnerable, and to deeply listen; no yoga or anti-racism experience required. Advanced Sign-Up Encouraged: http://goo.gl/forms/e5PKfIdXU3Ne1X953
Show up and answer the call of your own heart to move beyond fear, discomfort, and a sense of scarcity into your rightful place as a potent warrior of the heart, a liberationist, a radical catalyst for transformation.
*https://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/we-charge-genocide-FINAL.pdf
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