00:03:02 Justine (she/her): Hello from Massachusetts. I’m doing okay and grateful to our sangha. 00:03:10 dana (she/her): Reacted to "Hello from Massachus…" with ❤️ 00:03:18 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Bramacharya - present and grateful 00:03:26 Justine (she/her): Clarity - it will always be clarity. 00:03:33 Anita Vasan: Hello from the San Fernando Valley. Feeling grateful and inspired! 00:03:52 jen green (she/her): Hi everyone. Jenny, here in Sacramento. Resting today and cold. Grateful for this crew and glad I could join. 00:03:55 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Hood River, Oregon, USA on the ancestral lands of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs (Pacific US Time Zone). I'm excited and grateful. Leaning into brahmacharya and tapas 00:03:57 Eilene Franco-Brooks: I am in Chico, California. I am feeling grateful for sunshine and warmth today. 00:04:04 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "I am in Chico, Calif..." with 👍 00:04:08 Constina: Hi From Costa Rica 00:04:15 Cleo - Turtle Island: Cleo from Lenape land colonized as The Bronx 00:04:29 Cleo - Turtle Island: Sunny outside chilly inside!, Bramh and Tapas too 00:04:38 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Sunny outside chilly..." with ☝️ 00:06:26 wade: I am a Dine, residing in Dine Territory on the Navajo Nation, but currently in Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute Territory) aka LAs Vegas. I am feeling a mixture of rage and resolve being on the land here 00:10:58 Cleo - Turtle Island: Reacted to "I am a Dine, residin..." with 🧡 00:11:06 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "I am a Dine, residin..." with 🧡 00:12:17 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "I am a Dine, residin..." with 🧡 00:16:59 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Lokah samastha sukhino bhavantu 00:20:07 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yoga at this time - ahimsa - brahmahmacharya - how show its showing up 00:20:59 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Raag Kaafi - original composition for us in YSC by Sarathi 00:24:26 Constina: Ahimsa is showing up for me in several ways. I am currently triggered (like many of us) by the ongoing genocide happening not only in Palestine but also in DRC and Sudan. All of it weighs heavy on my heart. It gets so bad that I become angry at the world around me. AND Then … and then I turn to practice to yoga as a healing practice. I breathe, I move, I meditate. I am still and listen to the sounds of the universe (from within and then from outside). I share my practice with others to create community centered on grounding and being authentic - even if it is just for that practice. Ahimsa. Practicing it is a moment by moment day by day journey. 00:24:36 Carly Joelle: Reacted to "Raag Kaafi - origina..." with ❤️ 00:24:48 Constina: Reacted to "Raag Kaafi - origina..." with ❤️ 00:24:49 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "Ahimsa is showing up..." with ❤️ 00:25:28 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "Raag Kaafi - origina…" with ❤️ 00:26:00 Justine (she/her): My mind is like a mosh pit. May I learn to accept it and have compassion for where it’s at. The harming is in the judging and fixing. I feel it is learned condition of the culture - home/work/culture @large. I want to continue to unlearn harmful cultural practices and uncover standards that are a just right or right enough fit for my brain and nervous system. 00:26:03 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "Ahimsa is showing up…" with ❤️ 00:26:21 Constina: Reacted to "Ahimsa is showing up..." with ❤️ 00:26:37 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "My mind is like a mo..." with ❤️ 00:27:08 Carly Joelle: Reacted to "My mind is like a mo..." with ❤️ 00:27:16 wade: Reacted to "Ahimsa is showing up..." with ❤️ 00:27:33 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Ahimsa is showing up..." with ❤️ 00:27:38 Carly Joelle: Reacted to "Ahimsa is showing up..." with ❤️ 00:27:55 wade: Reacted to "My mind is like a mo..." with ❤️ 00:28:34 Constina: Reacted to "My mind is like a mo..." with ❤️ 00:30:41 Carly Joelle: Replying to "My mind is like a mo..." “My mind is like a mosh pit” .. this resonates, phew. 00:30:52 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "“My mind is like a m..." with ❤️ 00:30:54 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "My mind is like a mo…" with ❤️ 00:36:57 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Usually attributed to Emma Goldman even though she didn't say it directly. 00:37:06 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Usually attributed t..." with ♥️ 00:37:38 Constina: @wade Thank you. Interconnection of spiritual, ancestral, Joy, war. your share reminds me of Arjuna’s journey 00:37:52 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "@wade Thank you. Int..." with ♥️ 00:38:03 wade: Reacted to "@wade Thank you. Int..." with ❤️ 00:38:09 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "@wade Thank you. Int..." with ❤️ 00:39:26 Justine (she/her): I’d like to know if there is anyone who has challenged the education system (curriculum, policies, etc.) 00:39:53 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Replying to "I’d like to know if ..." Not successfully ... 00:40:04 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Replying to "I’d like to know if ..." except for just on our-family only level 00:40:19 jen green (she/her): Moving, shaking, jumping up and down - an excellent way to release! 00:40:30 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Not successfully ..." with 😞 00:40:40 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Moving, shaking, jum..." with ☝️ 00:40:42 Carly Joelle: Reacted to "Moving, shaking, jum..." with ❤️ 00:41:21 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Replying to "I’d like to know if ..." Did you have something specific in mind? 00:41:27 Nichole Beiner (she/her): “Lovingly dismantle” 00:41:36 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Replying to "“Lovingly dismantle”" Love that 00:41:41 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "“Lovingly dismantle”" with ♥️ 00:41:42 jen green (she/her): Replying to "I’d like to know if …" We try - I work in a school system - we are trying to radically shift our practices, but have some autonomy to do so. (Charter school system - we are still public - but do have some flexibility) 00:41:50 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "“Lovingly dismantle”" with ❤️ 00:42:01 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "We try - I work in a..." with 👍 00:42:33 wade: decolonizing methodologies is a great book on cirriculums and research 00:42:51 Carly Joelle: What a gold mine of resources, Susanna!! Thank you for sharing this with us! 00:43:07 jen green (she/her): Amazing bank of resources - thank you! 00:45:01 Susanna Barkataki (she/her): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H2HIu-M_69dtDqO-WO47194bmuIMPHPYfRZVYUnGjbQ/edit 00:45:08 Nichole Beiner (she/her): I really appreciate that thoughtfulness 00:45:12 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "https://docs.google...." with ♥️ 00:45:14 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "https://docs.google.…" with ❤️ 00:45:16 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "Amazing bank of reso..." with ❤️ 00:45:18 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "https://docs.google...." with ♥️ 00:45:19 wade: Reacted to "https://docs.google...." with ❤️ 00:45:23 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "What a gold mine of ..." with ❤️ 00:45:27 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "What a gold mine of ..." with ❤️ 00:45:31 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "decolonizing methodo..." with ♥️ 00:46:13 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Is there a suggested way to read the sutras? How do you pick ones? 00:46:50 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "https://docs.google...." with ♥️ 00:48:15 Justine (she/her): Replying to "decolonizing methodo..." I work at the elementary level. So, it really is not practicing ahimsa (with the testing and not giving enough time for play and socialization - - - including developmentally inappropriate curriculum.) 00:48:25 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Is there a suggested..." with ♥️ 00:48:26 Carly Joelle: I’m so glad that this question/conversation is coming up! 00:48:50 jen green (she/her): Those are great questions… 00:49:11 jen green (she/her): Very hard to find studios that are actively discussing ways of decolonizing yoga, 00:49:21 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Very hard to find st..." with ♥️ 00:49:25 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "Very hard to find st..." with 👆🏽 00:49:52 jen green (she/her): Yes! 00:50:01 Eilene Franco-Brooks: Reacted to "Very hard to find st..." with 👍🏼 00:50:34 29 Theresa Cusolito (she/her): Reacted to "Very hard to find st..." with ♥️ 00:53:25 Cleo - Turtle Island: Tbh I think it’s the idea of fun and “wholesomeness” that makes these types of colonization of the practice easy to make excuses for, easy to accept, easy to do, easy to market, hard to fight against. It still dilutes the practice even if the water that dilute sit is sweet 00:53:36 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "Tbh I think it’s the..." with ❤️ 00:53:56 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "Tbh I think it’s the..." with ❤️ 00:54:02 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Tbh I think it’s the..." with ❤️ 00:55:16 Bonnie Walker (she/they): It's a lot easier to criticize Beer Yoga, right? 00:55:23 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "It's a lot easier to..." with 😆 00:55:29 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "It's a lot easier to…" with 😂 00:55:35 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "It's a lot easier to..." with 😆 00:56:06 Carly Joelle: Reacted to "It's a lot easier to..." with 😅 00:56:24 wade: Reacted to "It's a lot easier to..." with 😂 00:57:05 Constina: Reacted to "Very hard to find st..." with 👆🏽 00:58:00 29 Theresa Cusolito (she/her): Reacted to "It's a lot easier to..." with 😂 00:59:10 Carly Joelle: I have a hard stop for another meeting. Much love to you all! 00:59:18 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "I have a hard stop f..." with ❤️ 00:59:19 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "I have a hard stop f..." with ♥️ 00:59:22 Constina: Reacted to "I have a hard stop f..." with ❤️ 00:59:41 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "I have a hard stop f..." with ❤️ 01:00:31 Nichole Beiner (she/her): And yet, if all life is yoga, then it is yoga too? 01:00:55 Justine (she/her): My cats interrupt my yoga practice all the time. I try to incorporate them - but they’re usually not invited. 01:00:55 Bonnie Walker (she/they): It sounds like we all agree it's not an authentic yoga practice, yet we would all have a different approach to handling that specific situation. 01:01:04 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "My cats interrupt my..." with 😆 01:01:11 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "It sounds like we al..." with ❤️ 01:01:39 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "It sounds like we al..." with ❤️ 01:02:15 wade: good intentions without conscious awareness of appropriation ultimately disguises white sumpremacy and colonial mentalities of taking without question 01:02:29 Farrah Khan (she/her): Replying to "good intentions with..." Exactly. 01:02:30 Nichole Beiner (she/her): I think that would be a beautiful way instead. Tell people to go to the farm as practicing a different limb 01:02:32 Anita Vasan: Thank you all so much for this discussion. Honored to be a part of it! 01:02:34 29 Theresa Cusolito (she/her): Reacted to "It sounds like we al..." with ❤️ 01:02:36 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "good intentions with..." with ❤️ 01:02:36 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "good intentions with..." with 💯 01:02:51 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "good intentions with..." with ❤️ 01:03:11 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you all so muc..." with ❤️ 01:03:14 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you all so muc..." with ❤️ 01:03:22 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "It sounds like we al…" with ❤️ 01:03:24 Cleo - Turtle Island: In a conversation I was having earlier today someone was saying how they met another yoga teacher that loves to “make the students suffer”. We were discussing how they are mislabeling the class as yoga, that’s not what yoga is about even if the class is successful, that doesn’t Make it yoga/union/alignment etc 01:03:39 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "good intentions with…" with ❤️ 01:03:41 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "In a conversation I ..." with 👆🏽 01:03:47 Constina: Reacted to "good intentions with..." with ❤️ 01:03:56 Justine (she/her): Replying to "My cats interrupt my..." I think the animals are an added distraction to the teaching. 01:04:13 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "In a conversation I ..." with 👆🏽 01:04:22 jen green (she/her): Reacted to "In a conversation I …" with 👌🏻 01:04:26 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Replying to "In a conversation I ..." oh gosh. sounds like my entire time in the Iyengar method. 01:04:34 Constina: Reacted to "My cats interrupt my..." with 🤣 01:04:47 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "oh gosh. sounds like..." with 😞 01:04:50 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "oh gosh. sounds like..." with 😞 01:05:25 Nichole Beiner (she/her): “The closest thing to a more aligned…” I feel like that’s so much of the BIPOC experience. 01:06:04 Constina: @Susanna Barkataki (she/her) can we speak to Cleo’s comment above regarding suffering through a pracrtice 01:06:20 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "@Susanna Barkataki (..." with ☝️ 01:06:54 Cleo - Turtle Island: Reacted to "oh gosh. sounds like..." with 😞 01:07:30 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Replying to "In a conversation I ..." I think students need to know that is what they are walking into and make that choice, though. 01:08:00 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Isn’t that his choice to choose the suffering though? Versus someone else imposing it? 01:08:15 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Isn’t that his choic..." with ☝️ 01:08:24 Justine (she/her): Replying to "Isn’t that his choic..." NOT trauma-informed 01:08:26 Constina: Reacted to "I think students nee..." with ❤️ 01:09:25 Farrah Khan (she/her): Thank you Susanna for this space. Thank you all for your presence and sharing. 🥰 01:09:26 Bonnie Walker (she/they): I could write a book on this ... 01:09:39 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Replying to "I could write a book..." Do it! 01:09:45 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you Susanna fo..." with ❤️ 01:09:50 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "Do it!" with 👍 01:09:55 Constina: Reacted to "I could write a book..." with 👆🏽 01:10:09 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you Susanna fo..." with ❤️ 01:10:12 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "I could write a book..." with ♥️ 01:10:23 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Replying to "I could write a book..." I need an accountability buddy! I think I found writer's insurance to mitigate the eventual libel / slander lawsuits 01:11:13 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Replying to "I could write a book..." @Bonnie Walker (she/they) Row House publishing has a cohort of Blocked 2 Book coming up if you’re looking for a space for aspiring writers and to learn about publishing a book. 01:11:34 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "I need an accountabi..." with ♥️ 01:11:47 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Replying to "I could write a book..." I will look into it, thanks! 01:12:16 Constina: Thank you @Cleo - Turtle Island for bringing up this topic. I started off the discussion from a perspective of “yeah, suffering is not yoga” AND now I am in agreement “that there are different practices for different people”. It is up to the individual and for me to be trauma informed in how i practice and share the practice 01:12:31 Jessica Jacovitch (she/her): Yes, I completely agree. Some feedback I received about choice-based language in my teaching when auditioning for a studio was "people come to yoga because they want to be told what to do". Long story short... not a studio I ended up teaching with. 01:12:32 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you @Cleo - Tu..." with ❤️ 01:12:34 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you @Cleo - Tu..." with ❤️ 01:12:39 Cleo - Turtle Island: Reacted to "Yes, I completely ag..." with 💞 01:12:42 Nichole Beiner (she/her): Reacted to "Yes, I completely ag..." with 💞 01:12:44 Jessica Jacovitch (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you @Cleo - Tu..." with ❤️ 01:12:45 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Yes, I completely ag..." with 💞 01:12:49 jen green (she/her): Thank you so much for this space, everyone. I’m so grateful to have space from my job to be present. Be well. 01:12:49 Cleo - Turtle Island: Reacted to "Thank you @Cleo - Tu..." with 💞 01:12:57 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Yes, I completely ag..." with 💯 01:12:59 Bonnie Walker (she/they): Reacted to "Yes, I completely ag..." with 💯 01:13:06 Justine (she/her): Reacted to "Thank you so much fo..." with ♥️