Intersectional Yoga Teaching with Europa Grace

This module explores intersectionality, which is a framework for understanding how aspects of a person’s social and political identities combine to create different lived experiences. No matter our individual backgrounds, white supremacy culture negatively impacts us all, as it dominates many aspects of our society from education to housing to healing practices like yoga.

To dismantle this toxic culture and the trauma that is a systematic part of its design, we must commit to a process of decoupling our healing from capitalist, hetero-patriarchy, and to teach in an intersectional way. In this training, we’ll go back in time to fetch the true intentions of this ancient healing practice and carry it forth, along with our own personal ancestral practices.

You’ll gain a better understanding of how modern yoga often functions as a tool of oppression (rather than healing), and the ways in which we each play a part in this paradigm. This module will empower you to create more inclusive spaces of healing in your own classrooms. Our time together will include lecture and group discussion, as well as somatic exercises geared toward self-inquiry and ancestral healing.

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For more information on this program, click here.

Required Reading:

“My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies” by Resmaa Menakem

*Participants must complete Chapters 1-3 prior to the first day of training*

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