Join Dr. Sheena Sood for Decolonizing & Democratizing Yoga and apply a critical lens to your relationship with Yoga. Rather than settle for the mere insertion of brown faces in yogic spaces, the “Decolonizing Yoga” framework examines the origins of yoga, and how colonization informs ethics and politics of today's yoga spaces.
This training breaks down identity politics and replaces it with a framework of anti oppression work, so that we can root the struggle to decolonize yoga in an ethics and politics of social justice and collective liberation.
This Weekend Engages:
Issues such as colonization and de-sacralization, cultural appropriation and syncretization
The roots of modern Yoga, and how Orientalism impacts the practice and commodification of the industry
The relationship to classical Indian traditions, texts, and cultures, and the caste system
How Yoga is used as a political tool, including influence, spiritual bypassing, and weaponization.
The role the settler story and ancestral narrative plays in each person’s relationship to Yoga and building interconnected and anti oppressive relationships
How to become interconnected and interrelational
SCHEDULE:
Fridays 6:30-8:30pm
Saturdays 12:30-7pm
Sundays 12:30-5pm
DATES
July 14
July 15
July 16
Investment: $275
Note: Discounted pricing is available for those with financial hardship. Please email for assistance.
Sheena Sood is a Philly-based activist, educator, and healing justice visionary. She earned my doctoral degree in Sociology at Temple University. Dr. Sood’s yoga programs and workshops are designed to encourage all of us to envision how yoga can be purposed toward a liberatory spirituality that centers all of humanity, all living beings, and Mother Earth. She works with adults to incorporate a framework of Decolonizing Yoga to their study and practice of yoga. Through her kids' yoga program, Yoga Warrior Tales, she teaches children how to use mindful movement to activate more love, peace, and justice in the world.
As a sociologist, Dr. Sood’s research topics of race and ethnicity, political solidarity, social movements and critical yoga studies. Her current project looks at a phenomenon I refer to as the "weaponization of yoga;" the weaponization of yoga refers to the tendencies of governments and leaders to use yoga to advance ethnonationalist & neoliberal agendas of militarized oppression.