Learning Encounter 2: Seeing.
Required activities prior to Learning Encounter 2:
Reading:
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race Based Stress and Trauma by Gail Parker Ph. D
Complete the journal questions at the end of the chapters.
Watching:
Yoga Alliance Men’s Yoga for BIPOC
Yoga Alliance Anatomy: Ablelism and Accessibility for BIPOC
Yoga Alliance Kemetic Yoga
Yoga Alliance Professional Essentials for BIPOC
Yoga Alliance WE are Not the Same: Working Practices for Engaging with LGBTQ2SIA+ and BIPOC
Learning Encounter 2 Schedule:
We begin this encounter with a non mainstream yoga sequence, typically done by underrepresented communities. We then follow that with journalling and a short education about that type of yoga and its origination. We then do introductions of ourselves to each other, from the lens of where I was and where I am going. We then start to discuss who the underrepresented communities are and why they are not present or comfortable in traditional yoga studios. We continue with additional meditation case studies and vignettes, journalling and small and large group discussions. We then allow space for “word vomit,” sharing how we feel in the rawest form either in a journal or verbally, and end with a restorative practice and meditation. Time estimation 3 hours.
Learning Encounter 2 Objectives:
The objectives of this encounter are:
to see and feel a different type of yoga
to see how underrepresented communities experience yoga
to discover what we knew, thought we knew and didn’t know about how underrepresented communities experience yoga
to see the barriers traditional yoga has in place for underrepresented communities
to start to see what we can do in our own yoga circle to begin to create the change we want to see.