Skill in Action Immersion: Honing our Skills and Creating Conditions for Justice
September 8-12th
11:00am-1:00pm EDT and 3:00-5:00pm EDT
online via Zoom
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 immersion will explain and explore the intersection of the two: contemplative practice and social justice. This immersion 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.
The Skill in Action Immersion is for yoga teachers and practitioners, spiritual practitioners, activists, and organizers. This immersion is for people who want to be in community with others working to create a just world. During the immersion, 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 immersion 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!
The schedule:
We will meet each day from 11:00am-1:00pm EDT, and 3:00-5:00pm EDT via Zoom. The first session each day will include asana, meditation, lecture, and discussion. Each day’s second session will include meditation, application of the concepts introduced in the first session, small group and large group discussion.
Each session will be recorded and available for registered participants one month after our immersion ends.
Payment — three- tiered sliding scale:
$375 Community Rate (discounted)
$475 Sustainer Rate (pays for you)
$575 Supporter Rate (supports others as well as yourself)
A limited number of scholarships are available for BIPOC people. Please contact me if you are interested in a scholarship.
Zoom links will be sent by email by September 6th.