y o g a & s o c i a l j u s t i c e
200-hour Yoga and Social Justice Teacher Training
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What calls you to yoga & social justice?
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Social Justice Foundations
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The 200-hour Yoga Alliance registered teacher training program includes:
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Modules 1 & 2: Creating a Deep Foundation
We created these first two modules to help you effectively deepen your practice and study with immersive weekends that will transform, challenge, and inspire you as a student and new teacher of yoga. Sessions will include asana, pranayama, mindfulness, chanting, restorative practices, and meditations. As well as dharma time and teachings on Ayurveda. Sarahjoy will bring the teachings from her teachers, luminaries: Eknath Easwaran, Anthony De Mello, Paramahansa Yogananda |
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Module 4: Social Justice In Action
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Investment
The investment for this 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training is $3,300 with application by January 13. ($3,500 after January 13th)
Payment plans are available. You can pay for the program in full, or via a 2-part or 4-part payment plan.
$250 of your initial payment will be held as a non-refundable deposit.
Payment plans are available. You can pay for the program in full, or via a 2-part or 4-part payment plan.
$250 of your initial payment will be held as a non-refundable deposit.
Yoga and Social Justice Teacher Training in Prison
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Sarahjoy on Yoga & Social Justice
(2002) As the larger (macro) culture in which I live and participate reflects my personal culture, and if my personal culture is to be reflected back in that larger community, it compels me to understand that when I deepen my sensitivity, cultivate my compassion, commit to my accountability and integrity, inquire into my blind spots, and engage in the reflective process that supports my emotional and mental well-being in all its depth and intricacy, including that I can acknowledge my own survival strategies (behavior tendencies) with transparency and accountability, I become a part of the healing process for the larger culture.
(2001) If we are to be true healers, our task is to reclaim those aspects of ourselves that our culture shuns, to “take back our shadow,” as Robert Bly would say. We must start to see ourselves and those marginalized, institutionalized and disowned persons as somehow connected, for, fundamentally, we are! The tools we have at hand for instilling this sense of connection include yoga, meditation, community, restorative justice, curiosity, communication, self-awareness, and our willingness to be uncomfortable enough to grow.
(1998, 2012, 2014) How do I see yoga being a tool for social justice? If the system is going to change from one of punishment to one of justice, how we see each other in the web of life has to change. How we understand healing and restoration of the self must undergo a radical shift. It isn’t effective enough to focus only on the restraint of behaviors, such as those that are socially-challenging, cause harm to self or others, or continue to wreak havoc and generate community-wide vulnerability. We must also focus on generating new life skills; learning new behaviors that develop respect, agency, and personal stability; creating new conversations based on capacity and potential, rather than limitations and failures; and open opportunities for this new efficacy to be expressed in community. I believe that through such a process our now disenfranchised, under-supported, and isolated community members would move toward accountability for the pain they’ve caused and a natural urge for restoration would arise along with the inner sense that they have the capacity to carry out specific restorative actions.
(2001) If we are to be true healers, our task is to reclaim those aspects of ourselves that our culture shuns, to “take back our shadow,” as Robert Bly would say. We must start to see ourselves and those marginalized, institutionalized and disowned persons as somehow connected, for, fundamentally, we are! The tools we have at hand for instilling this sense of connection include yoga, meditation, community, restorative justice, curiosity, communication, self-awareness, and our willingness to be uncomfortable enough to grow.
(1998, 2012, 2014) How do I see yoga being a tool for social justice? If the system is going to change from one of punishment to one of justice, how we see each other in the web of life has to change. How we understand healing and restoration of the self must undergo a radical shift. It isn’t effective enough to focus only on the restraint of behaviors, such as those that are socially-challenging, cause harm to self or others, or continue to wreak havoc and generate community-wide vulnerability. We must also focus on generating new life skills; learning new behaviors that develop respect, agency, and personal stability; creating new conversations based on capacity and potential, rather than limitations and failures; and open opportunities for this new efficacy to be expressed in community. I believe that through such a process our now disenfranchised, under-supported, and isolated community members would move toward accountability for the pain they’ve caused and a natural urge for restoration would arise along with the inner sense that they have the capacity to carry out specific restorative actions.
