I invite you to collaborate with me to:
Share Iyengar Yoga as a practice of personal and collective liberation, centering those who have been systemically marginalized.
Cultivate the limbs of yoga as practices to dismantle oppression:
Honor yoga and Sanskrit as pre-Hindu practices, and dissociate them from caste, class, and religion.
Honor the teachers who have come before me, especially BKS Iyengar and Geeta Iyengar, and channel their teachings to develop Iyengar Yoga for the current and coming era.
Dismantle oppressive pedagogical hierarchies, and to make the Iyengar Yoga classroom interactive, collaborative, generative, creative, and equitable.
Employ all the tools of Iyengar Yoga to liberate ourselves and each other, and create the culture we want to live in, in the classroom, in our lives, in this world, and beyond.
Share Iyengar Yoga as a practice of personal and collective liberation, centering those who have been systemically marginalized.
Cultivate the limbs of yoga as practices to dismantle oppression:
- Recognize the ways we have been colonized, traumatized, and oppressed in:
- our individual embodiment,
- intergenerationally through our families and genetic lineage, and
- culturally/historically through our nations and ethnicities
- Recognize the ways we have been perpetrators of colonization, trauma, and oppression, intentionally or accidentally.
- Reveal, examine, and heal these wounds.
- Transform the wounds and their lessons, to use as impetus for change, personally, interpersonally, systemically, and culturally.
Honor yoga and Sanskrit as pre-Hindu practices, and dissociate them from caste, class, and religion.
- Collaboratively learn and develop yoga as a contemporary practice for personal and collective liberation for our particular time and place.
Honor the teachers who have come before me, especially BKS Iyengar and Geeta Iyengar, and channel their teachings to develop Iyengar Yoga for the current and coming era.
Dismantle oppressive pedagogical hierarchies, and to make the Iyengar Yoga classroom interactive, collaborative, generative, creative, and equitable.
- Dismantle systems and structures that reward single charismatic leaders.
- Recognize and reverse the ways we have been trained, habituated, and colonized to seek and embrace such figures.
- Resist authoritarianism in all forms, including dominant narratives defining Iyengar Yoga pedagogy.
- Recognize and value multiple modes of ability, intelligence and contribution.
Employ all the tools of Iyengar Yoga to liberate ourselves and each other, and create the culture we want to live in, in the classroom, in our lives, in this world, and beyond.
