Workshop:
Honouring the Cultural Roots of Yoga w/ Emmy Chahal
Saturday January 28th 1-4pm
Gratitude Yoga Salmon Arm.
$99
Scholarships Available
Limited space please register by email to gratitudehotyoga@gmail.com or 250-517-8747
Emmy Chahal is an international yoga teacher, educator, writer, speaker and intuitive healer. Learn more about Emmy and her incredible work at www.emmychahal.com
This offering is so important for our community and for EVERYONE who participates in yoga. Whether you are new to yoga, are a seasoned yoga practitioner, instructor, or someone who regularly practices yoga.
This interactive, discussion based workshop is about opening up the conversation around cultural sensitivity and decolonizing yoga.
The ultimate goal is to share why certain aspects of the yoga industry are harmful, which voices are left out, and how to respectfully engage with the spiritual, cultural tradition of yoga while being in right relationship to the land and people from where yoga originates.
NOTE: This workshop will be a prerequisite for the upcoming Gratitude Yoga Teacher Training (stay tuned). If you cannot attend live, a recorded video of the workshop will be available - please reach out to us for details + pricing.
This interactive, discussion based workshop is about opening up the conversation around cultural sensitivity and decolonizing yoga.
This workshop is for you if:
- you teach, practice, or participate in the yoga industry and you are not Indian or of South Asian descent
- you want to learn how to be more aware, sensitive, and conscious in the way you live and practice yoga in terms of healing racism, colonialism and oppression
- you are open to having difficult conversations and reflecting on your own social location and positions of privilege while working together for healing and collective liberation
- you are of South Asian descent and are keen to have healing conversations about how your own sacred cultural knowledge is being used in the yoga industry
- you have felt uncomfortable about the way Indian sacred knowledge has been shared/sold and wish to understand more about how to engage with it respectfully
What you will learn in this workshop:
- what the cultural appropriation of yoga is, why it is harmful and how it continues to be present in the mainstream yoga/wellness industry
- the significance of colonialism, commodification of culture, and privilege in terms of yoga
- what it is like to experience the yoga industry as a South Asian woman in the diaspora, and personal stories of how cultural insensitivity and appropriation causes harm
- examining representation of yoga in (social) media and what is missing
- how to respectfully teach, share and practice yoga as a non-Indian person
- uncover what active allyship looks like for people that are not Indian and why it is important
- how to teach and share yoga informed by anti-oppressive principles
- ideas on how yoga can be a site for ancestral trauma and ancestral healing
The workshop will be a foundational, introductory and basic overview of these cultural and social issues with plenty of time for discussion.
If you are of South Asian descent, BIPOC, or if finances are a barrier please contact us to access sliding scale scholarships.