Friends, I’m thrilled for this juicy invitation to explore and unpack access, power, privilege and race in yoga culture + spaces in this #embodyinclusivitychallenge organized by @eliana.chinea 🌿 it starts today but you can still sign up! (I just did, since I just now learned about it!) .
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Do you notice who’s missing from the room? Does it feel unnatural, uncomfortable, to be in a yoga class or other spiritual gathering where it’s mostly or all white? Where there’s no queer or trans folks? Where everyone is “fit”? What a great starting point for this important inquiry... .
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Great list of speakers. Excited!
#inquirewithin #yogachallenge #healingjustice #listentowomenofcolor
Ready to clear, cleanse, rinse away the debris of the past from your body and mind?
During this afternoon yoga workshop, we will journey deep within, re-establishing internal communication and the ability to sense subtlety. Clear out physical stagnation, anxiety, fear, fatigue, emotional heaviness, and other build up from our stressful modern environment. .
Through the lens of the koshas, or “sheaths” of our being, we will explore supported, long-held yoga poses combined with guided relaxation and gentle introductory pranayama as a way to release toxins, nourish, and heal.
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This workshop will leave you feeling deeply relaxed and freed from burdens of the past. Appropriate for every body. This is a great experience on its own, or as part of a cleanse. .
Purified water with organic lemon, chloroxygen water, and blood-purifying tea will be available for a Drinking Ceremony at the end of the workshop.
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Schedule Details
Saturday, March 30, 2019 2-5pm
Location: High Desert Yoga
Follow the link at @highdesertyoga to sign up! Register with a friend? You each save $5 🥰
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Wish could come but live far away? I’ll post the sequence this spring at averykalapa.com 🤲✔️
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Avery Kalapa is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), who has been practicing yoga for 20 years and teaching since 2004. She is grateful for extensive study with senior teachers, including the Iyengar Family, and has traveled around the US and to India to study yoga including therapeutic application, advanced practices, and embodied spiritual philosophy. The Iyengar method, anatomy, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Vipassana meditation, and healing justice are the foundation for Avery’s practice. She brings a depth of skill, rigor, compassion, and commitment that creates not only safety and accessibility, but inspiration and transformation. Avery is also registered with Yoga Alliance as ERYT500 and YACEP and holds a BFA.
#yogacleanse #organhealth #clearyourmind #abqyoga #yogawithavery
So many people are freaked OUT about a little armpit hair, genderqueer-ness and androgyny!
WOW. 🙄
It makes me even more glad to model and share my story in this amazing #adidasWanderlust collaboration and so happy that they decided to feature real, un-photoshopped strong diverse yoga women. .
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Yes, there’s a lot of supportive comments but I find it mega interesting (and tragic) that SO many people feel entitled to criticize, disapprove and basically police my gender expression in their comments. .
This reflects the hostility, judgement and violent cultural environment trans, queer, non-binary, gender non conforming folks face EVERY DAY. Does this affect how people feel entering a yoga class? You bet it does. How yoga teachers unknowingly dole out ideas and expectations about bodies + gender norms can cause real harm.
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Now, there’s ZERO doubt in my mind that my gender fluidity, and the way I’m embodied as a queer non-binary person is a ✨ precious, ✨sacred, ✨badass and ✨glorious thing. 🌟 It’s been a journey to get here though. I have white and other forms of privilege that have helped me feel welcome in yoga spaces, and still, it’s taken years of work (and the work is still in progress) I like to feel like I don’t have to hide or silence authentic aspects of myself in order to feel that I belong, in yoga, and in the world.
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I’m feeling massive appreciation for my queer trans community today, 🙌🙌🙌 for the delightful, creative intelligence specific to #queer experience that burns away so many heavy confines imposed by gender norms, and heteronormativity.
Shout out to @abq_queer_trans_yoga 🧡
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This stuff affects everyone, and so many people don’t even know the trap they’re stuck in!
Yoga can help us reclaim ourselves from the internal oppressor. May we all have access and ease to experience all the power, nurturing, emotional intuition, strength, tenderness, intelligence, sexual vitality, self worth, and every other aspect of humanity that has been divided into an oppressive gender binary. .
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#yogafreak #queeryoga #createdwithadidas
Feeling the surge of #equinox! Plus this libra full moon 🌕 yes, shifting & on the precipice, the husks of the old ways, old attachments, old paradigms (ya know, internalized oppression, corporate government, white supremacy, consumer culture, gender norms) clearing AWAY as something fresh new and unspoken is yet emerging.
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Little sprouts are TENACIOUS as they push up up through the earth to find the light. #PatriciaWalden talked a lot about Guruji’s #tenacity and determination in practice, especially in the early days when he struggled so much with illness, weakness, and poverty. .
May spring bring us the willpower and tenacity to shed our husks, to grow in the ways our world needs us to grow! .
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Here’s a #suryanamaskar in celebration of the longer sunnier days returning. One of many versions. So good to clear the inner fog. .
One of the first yoga practitioners I ever met did 108 EVERY MORNING! Dang she inspired me, talk about tenacious. We performed a sun salutation based dance act at a trance party at the #limelight in NYC, those were wild days...Sigaleet wherever you are, thank you and @leenabloom for firing me up, 20 years ago! So much love.
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I’ve been a bit bluesy so music = “I’m Blue” (the gong song) by the Ikettes. I love finding #rocksteady songs with a female lead! 🎶🔥
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#springhassprung #iyengaryoga #workinprogress
