Please join Wendolyne Omana
Saturdays from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm (10:00-11:15 am yoga practice and 11:30am-1:00 pm lecture)
An interactive conversation between yoga students and advocates in rural areas
Although there is evidence of body postures and breathing exercises as a method of healing in Mesoamerica, it was until the 1940s when the series of practices called Yoga and includes asanas, meditation, and pranayama; reached the public and/or the academic attention in parts of Mexico, and the United States of America.
In the beggining when Yoga was introduced in these two countries, its outreach knoked only the door of privileged classes in Mexico and the United States, and it was until the 1950s- 1970s when the political movements from these decades, somehow supported the further outreach of this practice. Let me share with you how yoga became a practice to achieve liberation from society’s fears, and ultimately, the fear caused by change after revolution.
As a Mestiza (indigenous and european-african descendent) woman from Mexico, a person of color, immigrant, and pasionate yoga student in the United States , I have had the opportunity to witness the impact of yoga in my communities and the benefits as well as the markable inequities of the western Yoga.
My name is Wendolyne, I am a body healing artist, a student of yoga, writer, and an advocate-activist of equity and social justice for the last seventeen years.
I invite you to join my classes as a method of continuing education where social-racial justice studies and their role in the yoga industry will be instructed.
Please know that during this time, some of the vocabulary could be very uncomfortable for the audience, I advice to get in direct contact with me if you are concerned about what to expect and to understand that even though is not going to be an easy conversation neither for you or for me, it is my authentic intention to create a clearer perspective on how the Yoga that we know in the Americas can be a door for equity and inclusion if we understand their current invisible restrictions.
During this conversation I will invite the audience to understand dynamics of power and control, as well as privilege and to leverage it during the process of dismantling white supremacy in the world of yoga. All of these intentions are accompanied by the roots and support of the methodology of Yoga.
After confirming your participation, I will be delivering some resources to you for your personal studies and before our time together. Text me directly to enroll via zoom; we have only 6-10 in person spaces due to the regulations provided by the local Health Department.