Immersion Series: With the Earth as our Witness
A Body-based Practice Circle for Dismantling White Body Supremacy
- LIVE ON ZOOM -
In Partnership with Yoga Jubilee
Info and Registration: https://www.yogajubilee.com/with-the-earth
Fall Series: Wednesdays
October 6th - November 10th, 2021
6:30-8:30PM EST / 3:30-5:30PM PST
Tuition*: Sliding Scale $140 ($30/class) - $270 ($45/class)
Co-Led by: Deborah King & Rosa Vissers
This 6-part series is an opportunity for white identified people to practice somatic skills of resilience and resistance needed to dismantle our white supremacy. We will emphasize working with our body and breath, coming from the understanding that racialized trauma lives in our cells—as does our resilience. We will move, breathe, and pause together, drawing on therapeutic yogic practices that support trauma recovery and nervous system regulation. Through understanding and integrating our somatic responses as we explore our whiteness, we aim to increase our capacity to show up in a positive way for racial justice.
This is a space to practice body-based and internal tools that make accountability possible, so that we may become more capable of acting on and for our collective liberation. We do this work of unlearning our racism individually and collectively. There will be ample time for relationship building, reflection, and community.
We welcome the gift of the presence of any Black, Indigenous, and People of Color who would like to join us (free of charge). If any BIPOC folks are interested in joining (at no charge), please be in touch at the email below.
A note from the facilitators: We offer this series from a place of humility as white-identified humans dedicated to the practice of somatic abolitionism (credit: Resmaa Menakem). This is a lifelong devotion—it is a practice, not an identity, and there is no time that we will be done. We believe a world without white supremacy is not only possible; it is the only way forward. We present this work in relationship and community with the leadership at Yoga Jubilee. Also, for confidentiality classes will not be recorded.
*No one will be turned away for lack of funds-- it is important to us that this work is accessible to anyone who wants it. Please be in touch if you need to about the tuition. Please know that 30% of the tuition will go towards Yoga Jubilee and 40% to Black-led groups/organizations. Participants will collectively decide which organizations will receive these funds.
Questions and concerns: Email admin@yogajubilee.com