WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?

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This workshop is for any person who:

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• Practices, teaches, or is curious about yoga and wants to go deeper into their personal experiences and reflections.

• Has ever been unsure, insecure, or curious about how to practice yoga without causing harm or unintentionally disrespecting the cultural elements of yoga.

• Is interested in learning from the teachers and Desi/ South Asian voices and traditions that add depth to our practice and bring yoga alive in our daily lives.

WHAT WILL I LEARN?

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Using a range of embodied, postural, and meditative practices and educational strategies, Sheena’s “Decolonizing Yoga” workshop gives practitioners of all backgrounds concrete language, examples, strategies, and ancestral homework to complicate and deepen their understanding of a challenging topic.

To the students who bring a sense of openness, humility, and willingness to detach themselves from feeling a sense of ownership and entitlement toward yoga, this workshop promises to move YOU and our communities closer to spiritual enlightenment and liberation..

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WHY DECOLONIZE YOGA?

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Yoga has never been a practice aimed at the physical mastery of postures or stress reduction so we can function as better producers and consumers in a capitalist society. A devoted practice of yoga, rather is intended to cultivate a deep inner awareness so that we can experience, practice, and live in unity with our mind, body, soul, and with the divine.

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Yoga means liberation from every construct, including that of race, gender, time, space, location, identity and even history herself. However, the current state of yoga in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world highlights the power imbalance that remains between those who have access to wealth, an audience, and privilege in contrast to those who have been historically marginalized.

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One of the most powerful ways we can work together to decolonize yoga is to reunite with its true aim and purpose of practicing self-inquiry, and learnig about the history and integrity of an authentic yoga practice.