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Good Trouble: Decolonizing Yoga and Dismantling Racism (DYDR) Practitioner Training

- LIVE ON ZOOM -
11am - 8:30pm EDT / 8am - 5:30pm PDT

SPRING 2021: February 20, 27, and March 6, 2021
$300.00 Early Bird* ($350 after 1/20)

FALL 2021: September 18, October 2, and 16, 2021
$400.00 Early Bird* ($450 after 9/6)

Co-led by: Nya Patrinos and Riley Skye

Do you want to make a difference but are not sure how? Are you ready to explore your racial biases and blind spots? This training is open to everyone who wants to elevate themselves and fight against injustice. No matter your race, you have a role to play in the alleviation of human suffering. Learn yoga and meditation techniques to undo racism and decolonize yoga. Explore embodied practices to heal personal, historical, and inter-generational racism. Join us as we plot, plan, strategize, organize, and mobilize the yoga community toward a culture of inclusion, equality, social justice, healing, and transformation. Change the world one body at a time starting with your own.

This training is open to all people interested in deconstructing racism and decolonization. Formal yoga study or certification is not required to take this course. However, If you are a yoga teacher and would like to receive continuing education units this training is registered with Yoga Alliance for 24 CEUs. Click here for the December Yoga Alliance page.

Need-based and BIPOC/POC scholarships available. Click here for more information.

Other questions and concerns: Email admin@yogajubilee.com

TOPICS THAT WILL BE COVERED

  • Yoga's history of resistance and revolution

  • Yoga's history of exclusion, inequality, and classism

  • How to teach inclusive yoga classes, retreats, and workshops

  • What is Racism and White Body Supremacy and how does it affect my practice and/or teaching

  • What about being a White Ally - how can I help

  • How to language yoga with a body-positive perspective

  • Creating a yoga studio that embraces diversity 

  • How to use group agreements when teaching retreats, classes and workshops

  • How to be an Anti-Racist in the Yogic Context

  • How and when to use Sanskrit 

  • Whose alignment is it anyway

  • Investigating Race-Based Traumatic Stress through Yoga

  • Yoga and Cultural Appropriation - what should I NOT be doing

  • How do I work through my biases when teaching and practicing yoga

  • What does it mean to be post-lineage and why would I consider it

    * A 25% non-refundable deposit is required to reserve your spot. Pay by January 20th or September 6th to receive the early bird discount. On January 21st or September 7th the course price increases to $350 or $450, respectively. The remaining balance is due February 19th or September 8th respectively.