NOTE: This is a virtual offering

Contemplative practices, such as yoga, mindfulness, self-study, and journaling, are designed for us to engage in over time, again and again. Creating conditions for justice is ongoing work, and our contemplative practices can equip us to continue showing up again and again to create a truly liberatory world. The Skill in Action workshop will explain and explore the intersection of the two: contemplative practice and social justice. This workshop will deepen our awareness of self, others, the causes and nature of suffering, and develop and hone skills to create conditions for justice and liberation. 

This Skill in Action workshop is for yoga teachers and practitioners, spiritual practitioners, activists, and organizers. It is for people who want to be in community with others working to create a just world. During the workshop, we will explore how patterns of privilege, oppression, and imbalances of power become internalized and embodied, how systems of oppression build grief in the individual and collective bodies, how dominant culture conditions and shapes our thought patterns, behaviors, and actions, how to engage spiritual and contemplative practices as skills to build social change, and how to move into collective action.

Michelle will share lessons from the 2nd edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World about the tenants of Skill in Action, being with the questions that emerge as we create social change, how to calm the nervous system during unsettling times, and how to find refuge in the teachings from the Bhagavad Gita. The workshop will include both asana and meditation practices as well as practice with new skills! It will also include journaling, self-reflection, small and large group discussions, and more!