Join Tara Sonali Miller and the 2025 Yoga Teacher Training cohort for a deep dive in decolonizing yoga. In this series, we will touch on topics such as yoga history, colonialism, caste, Brahminism, cultural appropriation, and spiritual bypassing, and how these systems relate to yoga practice and teaching.
Included are two sections led by guest experts:
- Danielle Jones guides an experience of embodied liberation - examining how yoga can be a resistance practice for the ways white supremacy culture permeates our mind-bodies.
- Anjali Rao facilitates a section on yoga history offering insight into the stories and histories that have been obscured by heteropatriarchy and colonization.
As we dive into this material together, we will lean on our yoga practices to be with the complexity of two seemingly opposite impacts of yoga in our world: liberation and harm. The yogic concepts of satya (truth) and ahimsa (non-harming) can be guiding lights that invite us into truth telling and seeking, repair, and transformation of the complex harm that has come from yoga’s appropriation and proliferation around the world.
Rather than reviewing do’s and don’ts or checklists, this section will support you to hold many questions that yoga teachers and students who aim to practice yoga for liberation navigate on a daily basis:
- How can I teach or practice yoga with cultural appreciation rather than appropriation?
- What does it really mean to decolonize yoga?
- How can I/we acknowledge, repair, and transform harm that is done in the name of yoga?
- How can I facilitate yoga as a practice for liberation?
This series includes the 5 classes plus articles, podcasts, and reflection prompts.
This series is an introduction to these topics and will likely prompt further study and research of these vast topics.
Playback will be available for up to one week after each section.
Dates / Times / Format
Fridays in 2025
1/24, 2/7, 5/2, 5/9, 10/3
5:30pm - 8:30pm PST
Livestream
Investment
$259
About Tara Sonali Miller
Tara (they/them and she/her) is Co-Director of the BYMC and the Soma School of Yoga and Somatics. Tara has completed multiple yoga teacher trainings and has most recently been deepening their practice and study through advanced trainings with Khushi Malhotra. They are excited to share these deep healing practices with you.
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