WORKSHOPS
Fostering liberation — within your teaching and wellness spaces.
“Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”
-rev. angel kyodo williams
As a studio owner, you have the ability to build a brave and liberating space. As you train teachers, we can bring a new perspective to support teachers in providing inclusive spaces for all.
Within yoga teacher trainings, we deliver a diversity, equity and inclusion component through our workshop: Co-Creating Liberated Wellness Spaces, which asks:
How do we learn from the past, sit in the truth of the present and dream together the future we want — in a brave space that recognizes our shared humanity?
The workshop begins with establishing a container of compassion and accountability, where we can look past our conditioning to see more clearly. We work to recognize a system in our country that supports very few people.
We consider:
As a wellness provider, how do I create a space that feels liberating, and isn’t repeating the harm?
Co-Creating Liberating Wellness Spaces learning objectives:
Develop a foundational understanding of systemic racism and white supremacy as a system and culture
Discuss and deconstruct the ways in which they perpetuate systems of oppression (internalized racism/sexism/ableism etc.)
Understanding identity and advantage (positionality)
Identifying white axiology within US cultural norms and how those norms in turn proliferate in wellness spaces
Yoga as Moksha as Liberation
Finding one's place in the social change ecosystem
Recognizing personal and collective Liberation for all
Here, learning happens in a sacred container.
Shifting things we believe — about ourselves and others — is hard work. It can be raw, and painful. Yet as humans who have the desire to grow, we can do the hard work. This workshop is the vessel.
With Thrive Centered, you will be safe — to learn, process, question and evolve. In a space that honors everybody’s humanity, we hold and guide you with care. The work is impactful and worth it. Positive change trickles out everywhere.
Customized to your needs, this workshop lasts from 6-18 hours over the course of 2-6 sessions depending on desired depth. It includes suggested reading and pre-work and homework — and provides questions for further reflection.