Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hello! Hello!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Welcome!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hi! Oh, so good to see you!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's great to be together. We are going to explore a little bit for our office hours for October.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I thought we could begin with a little bit of a practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): There may be a few other folks joining us, but I think it'll be a nice small group. So
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): wherever you are, if you're at work or you're at home.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Let's let's just drop into our practice so you can
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): find an easeful way to be
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and lengthen up through your
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): spine and out through the crown of your head.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rooting down into the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): maybe rocking a little bit left and right.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and forward and back.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then, if you would like, and you can, inhaling, lifting one arm up, stretching any amount away from the earth
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and over to one side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can turn your face up towards your hands or down towards the earth.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): breathing through your side body
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and on your next exhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): switching sides, one arm down, other, arm, up.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): gazing up
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then inhale both arms. Come back
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): down towards your side and back behind you, maybe reaching for the back of the chair, or clasping one another
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and stretching your shoulders.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Open your heart open. Perhaps, if it feels good gazing up.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): releasing your head back.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening and closing your jaw.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then exhale, releasing your hands, folding forward, and you can rest your hands on your desk, or even if it feels supportive.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): clasp your hands around the back of your neck. So you give yourself a little bit of traction for this forward fold.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale when you're ready, coming back up.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): arms come up
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): towards the sky, and exhale twisting from your belly.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): then your chest, then your chin twists around last, and if you've got a chair or you want to twist.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): helping yourself twist, using a support, then please do
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): let your eyes twist around. Last.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): One more breath on this side
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and inhale coming back through center. Take a moment here at center, and then
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): lengthen and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): lift your arms up
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then exhale twisting in the other direction. Yeah, really nice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Knowing that we're not symmetrical beings. We don't have symmetrical sides or lives. So this side might feel different. And that's okay.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Deepening into the twist from your belly chest, chin, and eyes twisting around. Last
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one more breath on this side.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Inhale arms. Come back, body comes back.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll come into a gentle forward fold once more, exhaling.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): folding down over your body or over your desk, over your
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): wheel wherever you are
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): slowly coming back up.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Then we'll do a gentle cat and cow, so hands can be on your thighs or on the desk in front of you, inhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and send your chest forward. Chin comes up, exhale, rounding your back.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale, coming forward.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale back.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale forward.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale, releasing and rounding.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and you can stay with this cycle, or, if you'd like, start to circle your
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): shoulders around your torso, around on your hips, perhaps pushing into the earth with your feet in one direction.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll go the other way, too.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Kind of like you're mixing a pot or stirring
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): nice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and this movement can stay more calm and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sedate, or it can be more wild head that can be circling whatever feels supportive to you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And if you're circling in one direction
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): now taking maybe a few more circles.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we'll go the other way.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): moving with your breath, focusing on your inhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and X,
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): allowing this side to be as large or small as you would like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): few more circles here.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then let your circling get smaller and smaller
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): until you find
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a place that feels like center.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then option to try a downward dog in your chair. So that's feet and arms kind of out palms pushing against the like the sky and then wrists up. So imagine that you're in downward dog, and you can
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): stretch between your legs and your arms.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Feel as if you can equalize the weight between your arms and legs, softening your shoulders away from your ears.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Nice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and release on your exhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): with the sound, and then exhaling, lengthening up, and arms come down.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): full breath out
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): finding your mount or your Tadasana
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): mountain shape in your chair. So that's like your strong, solid mountain
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): lengthening up through your spine, releasing
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your skin and your muscles
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): all around your bones.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Continue to breath in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): full breath out.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll practice a few calming breaths.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Durga Pranayama
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): breathing in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and out in 3 parts, so inhaling into your belly, expanding your belly, then the sides of your ribs.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): upper chest.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): then full long. Exhale.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhale belly.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): ribs, upper chest, and back
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): seeing if you can keep your shoulders and neck and jaw relaxed
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): one more time, inhale to belly
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): expanding ribs out to the side, upper chest and back.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Exhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your breath, come back to its own natural rhythm.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll do the opposite breath voluma breath, so as if
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): durga pranayama we breathe, exhaling or inhaling through 3 parts, but with Voloma we exhale in 3 parts with a gentle pause, so it sounds kind of like this.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Inhale fully through your nose.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Let the mouth gently open, and then exhale in 3 parts. With a slight pause, exhaling from the belly
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): chest, upper chest.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Inhale.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): exhale
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 2 more times on your own rhythm.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): now returning to your own breath, and being present with the energy
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of ease.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your nervous system recalibrate.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if you notice that there's still any tension, or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your mind is focused on something else, and perhaps counting your breaths.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): noting, and I'll just do this twice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the length of the inhale. 2, 3,
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 4,
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 5.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Exhale 2, 3, 4, 5, and your account may be different.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Inhale 2, 3, 4, 5.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Exhale 2, 3, 4, 5.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll sit in meditation
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for a few minutes, and then I'll guide us with my voice when it's time.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Okay, breath in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and full breath out.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This is a time of reverence for the goddess
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Navratri, or 9 nights to celebrate the goddess.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and it's a powerful time of inner reflection.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and also a time of
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): surrendering and trusting in the divine, in the universe.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in the power of unity.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): contrast.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): surrendering and releasing attachment to controlling outcomes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Goddess Durga
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): invites us to trust our practice even these moments as we're on the move, or maybe busy.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It is never in vain. These small pockets of practice are so powerful.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just as are the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): forces that shape our lives.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Part of a cosmic cycle.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and goddess Durga is a lover of equity, a bringer of justice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): sometimes a fierce warrior, other times an absolute, nourishing, nurturing mother and lover.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a remover of obstacles, guiding us, supporting us, loving us through the challenging
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): moments of our lives.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so we're invited to practice this balance between Stira and Sukha, between effort
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and surrender.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and also reflecting on how we embody these energies, the Durga energies, nurturing, protecting.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): transforming ourselves.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so you might reflect, what are you transforming?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We're connecting to during this time.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll close our practice with a chant, and you can chant in your mind if you would like.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This is the seed sound of Durga om dum Durgay om Dum Durgay, and we'll see if I can put that in the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in the chat.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and it is the seed syllable
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): dumb or doom.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): The that is this the sound kind of like Ohm? It's like creation, preservation, transformation for
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Durga Durgay is her name.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and Namaha is like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): offering respect, offering, honoring.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so wherever you are, it doesn't matter if you're moving or distracted, or just taking this moment to connect to the energy within you the energy of
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the power of the goddess.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Deep breath in, and we'll chant 3 times someone's just joining us, so
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): invite them in.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connecting to the energy of Durga the energy of the goddess.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and the chant is, Om dum durgaye Namaha!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll chant 3 times, beginning and ending with Om.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): damaha
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): om dari
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): now, Maha!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): inhaling
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and exhaling.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): perhaps placing a hand on your heart or hand on your belly.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connecting to the energy of equity, of justice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm fighting for what's right
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of nurturing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): knowing that, like each of us, the goddess is very complex and has many, many
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): qualities.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and so we can connect to these qualities in Durga to enhance and cultivate them in ourselves.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and if there's
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): any place that needs some care, some energy rubbing your hands together, generating some heat, some light.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then placing your hands wherever you would like on your body.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): If you're not sure you can always place them over your eyes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): let yourself receive
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): once more, because we practice for ourselves, and Durga is all about
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): caring for those who need it, and with
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): those who've been in the path of storm, Helene, in the path of melted
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): right now.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or in any way impacted by
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): violence, war.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): suffering.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): rubbing your hands together, holding
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the energy of the goddess, is fierce love.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then sending it out
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to all who could use some care.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Our prayer is not nothing, our intentions are not nothing, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we can bring our hands together, connecting also to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): what we can do in our own lives in terms of action
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and gentle bow
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to yourself for taking this time for practice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in whatever form, whether
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): on the road or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): at work, or at home.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): bowing to one another.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then, as you're ready, stretching in any way that you would like looking around, taking in color and shape and form.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I would love to invite us into a little bit of reflection.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you can write into the chat if anyone would like to share out loud. You can also do that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): into your journal.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I'm just putting some
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): some questions in the chat.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Okay.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so what areas of my life can I practice more surrender and trust in the divine or universe, or yourself?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that one is big for me right now.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): what are you transforming, attuning to, grateful for during this time?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): How does your practice, whether on the mat or in daily life. Support your journey.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): because this is a very powerful time where
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): our practice is amplified is multiplied, and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm putting in the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the dark a chance. So
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we'll take a little time. I'll play some music for us to reflect. In what areas of my life can I practice more, surrender, more trust in the divine and the universe in myself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): What are you transforming, attuning to, or grateful for during this time?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And how does your practice support your journey?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Play some music, and then we can share, if you would like afterwards
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): ask any questions.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): finishing up what you're writing, maybe taking a minute or 2 just to finish
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your thoughts
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): as you finish, if you would like. If you've got a candle near you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): or there's just a source of light, maybe gazing at that light. I have a candle lit here for us.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and we'll just take
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a moment gazing into the inevitable, into the infinite.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): into this flame
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and option, to gaze at the flame with your regular gaze blinking, or to let your eyes
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): be unblinking, which might cause them to start to tear a little bit.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): not allow that release and that surrender physically.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): softening your jaw, softening your
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): shoulders.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connecting to the light
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the light of Yoga, the light of
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): this inner power that no one can give you, and no one can take away.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): This is the power that Yoga brings.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's the goddess energy.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And when you're ready, perhaps closing your eyes or letting your gaze go soft and visualizing the light within.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so imagining that light
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in your mind's eye and your heart.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then exhaling.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): opening your eyes if they're closed
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and orienting yourself in space
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connecting to the light all around you. And sometimes it can be so nice to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just remember the power of light, right like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it gives us life. And so yes, there's a spiritual light. But it's not really that different than even electric lights, or the light from the sun.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's like loving us, giving us life all the time, and so feeling yourself if it's supportive to you like, surrounded by all of this care, all of this love, all of this power and nourishment.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): We'll come together and invitation
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to share out if you would like. My eyes are watering a little from the from the trotec, from the candle gazing.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and of course no one has to share. If you don't want
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): welcome, Dana, I'm so glad you could join us.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Eileen. I'm just gonna read out what you said. I love this
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm working to surrender more in motherhood.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, same. The world feels so overwhelming right now.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I want to make the world a safe, happy place for my child and all children.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): knowing that is beyond.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I try to surrender to the universe. My practice on and off the mat makes things seem peaceful and manageable at the moment. I'm grateful that I get to do yoga with kids 3 days a week, they make the world seem joyful.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you so much for sharing that. Wow! That's really beautiful that you get to practice with children
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): 3 days a week.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Would anyone else like to share it? I know, Carly said. You're on route to the dentist. But if you're still driving and you want to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): share, if that's supportive to you, you're more than welcome.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I agree.
Carly Joelle: I appreciate that, Susana. I don't feel like I have the the bandwidth to both focus on traffic and share. But I just really appreciate still being able to be here. So thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm so glad you could be. That's like, really, really awesome that you're en route somewhere. And you're like, I'm gonna tune in and get
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): some of the seeds. You know. One of my teachers, thich Nhat Han, used to always talk about the Dharma rain, and I've heard other teachers say similar things. The idea that, like we, we let the practice kind of like trickle like rain.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just supportive, nurturing the seeds, even if it's the same thing. We're hearing the same thing, or we're doing the same practice, or we're really busy and distracted. It's still percolating in. And one of the ways I like to do that is, listen to mantras on playlists when I'm taking a bath, or, you know, like when I am in the airport, or I go to the.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): These are very like worldly mundane things, but I go to the gym where my child plays basketball, and it's so loud and so I'll put earbuds in, and I'll listen to mantra just to be like holding that energy of love and calm for all the all the children there
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and myself. So thank you.
Carly Joelle: Thank you. I also want to call out that, like my comfort, with kind of showing up imperfectly comes from having done the the 300 h training with you where you could that decolonized approach of
Carly Joelle: just do what you can when you can, and it's good.
Carly Joelle: So thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): That's so cool. I love that it's I. I really appreciate
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): understanding
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of decolonizing right that we don't have to show up a certain way that we don't have to be on, that. We don't have to be a good like good student, whatever that means, or good practitioner, or even good teacher.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we can just be how we are and be with the practice. However, it's showing up. So thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Anyone else want to share.
dana (she/her): Adding to what Carly was saying, I haven't taken your 300 h, but I do. I was just thinking as you were
dana (she/her): sharing, how awesome it is like to
dana (she/her): to be engaging in the way that you can like
dana (she/her): and like the fact that I felt okay coming in, even though I didn't start at 12. I didn't feel like it was gonna be a problem.
dana (she/her): because there's this graciousness that I experience in every interaction with you. And if there was a boundary that like have to start at a certain time, I would follow that and say, you know, but there's a graciousness that I feel
dana (she/her): really grateful for. And I
dana (she/her): there's this resource from him. About. If this really great, it was recently put into a graphic about
dana (she/her): white supremacist culture workplaces and characteristics of that with an antidote.
dana (she/her): And it's really beautiful.
dana (she/her): I'm
dana (she/her): I think
dana (she/her): so. It just makes you think of like those decolonizing practices
dana (she/her): that make a big difference in the
dana (she/her): yeah. I just am grateful to experience a lot of the behaviors that the antidotes in in your presence in your in how you teach.
dana (she/her): So thank you.
dana (she/her): I am.
dana (she/her): I
dana (she/her): just got done with the therapy session, so I don't want to make this into an extended therapy session.
dana (she/her): but every like. The the idea of Dorica.
dana (she/her): as like the bringer of justice.
dana (she/her): and lover of equity, is, was exactly exactly the theme of including myself in injustice as I advocate, for, like as I believe in justice for everyone.
dana (she/her): If I don't include myself in that also, then that's the biggest learning that I have to that I think life is teaching me right now
dana (she/her): is
dana (she/her): is that
dana (she/her): so I feel like that's the big lesson of
dana (she/her): returning to the mat is like, I, I think, actually just read something from what it takes to heal by Prentice hemphill
dana (she/her): and it was actually mentioning that you can't.
dana (she/her): You can't be an ally until you grief
dana (she/her): like for yourself.
dana (she/her): And I'm like, Wow, that's so. I'm just thinking about
dana (she/her): that right now that I like that.
dana (she/her): I'm in a really awful
dana (she/her): workplace situation. Where there isn't equity in general.
dana (she/her): and I advocated for my own rights and received a lot of
dana (she/her): terrible.
dana (she/her): terrible, like a terrible response.
dana (she/her): and so to to move through that and ask for justice for myself as I contextualized it. In the 1st place, as like, here's how it could be beneficial and equitable for everyone.
dana (she/her): And just
dana (she/her): just learning how to get.
dana (she/her): So yeah, that's where I'm at.
dana (she/her): Okay.
dana (she/her): I'm done.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, thank you, Tina.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm just really resonating. I've been there.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and also
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): reading Tama Kun's article has been so helpful for me in naming and noticing those things at work. You know I know they 1st Tama and Kenneth created it, for
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like white supremacy at work. And so in the workplace.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's been helpful to be able to name. I feel like that's part of the Durga, like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the goddess powers like naming these systems and naming these structures like, it's not me that's a failure.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's the structure that's not supportive of my own or other people's well-being.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And that's been really helpful. And Carly. I wonder if we did this in your 300? But we I had sort of started
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): applying some of the white supremacy culture norms to yoga spaces
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I think
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'll share it all with you. I just wanna make sure that it's really clear. Yeah. So
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the attribution.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Let me just look.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah, okay, cool. And what what was
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm just making sure that it's good. So let me share it, and then let me pull. So you anyone who with the link can comment
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so that way, if you want to look at this because a lot. But what I like about it
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is, we started to think about remedies. Right? So
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So we talked about white supremacy
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): in yoga studios and spaces, and then name
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): these 16 characteristics.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): but also
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): contextualize it in terms of Yoga as an essential part of Svadyaya.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then Union right. Yoga is is union.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I gave a little background.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And then we explore the qualities, how it shows up and then decolonizing remedies.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so, for example.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like privileging the individual right? Privileging, personal practice that Yoga is just in like a room or something you do for an hour. Kind of like what we're talking about. Right?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): white supremacy separating all of us from one another.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): from ourselves, promoting jealousy or fear.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so a healing mindset or decolonizing would be like creating collective connections, interdependence.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): social economies, integrating rhythms like connecting here together. And I read one more.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): a culture of anxiety and fear. Right? That idea that we're not good enough, or we need to show up a certain way, or we need to perform
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): competition, specialization.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): imposter syndrome.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And then
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the sort of remedies patients practice collaboration
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): caring for one another. Compassion, love.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): just like you were saying.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): caring for yourself. A few of you have mentioned this like caring for yourself.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So there's a place to give like you are included in social justice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): giving to yourself and supporting yourself and others play.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and it goes through all 16. I won't go over all of them. But
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the other thing I wanted to just point out is
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the resources? Right? So. And this is
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): from embrace Yoga's roots. The book which maybe some of you have. Maybe you don't. But it's also all here on this sheet
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): of course, white supremacy, culture, or any kind of
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): control. Dominant culture causes trauma and
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): trauma is, you know, part of life, like things happen that overwhelm us.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): But there's also all these resources to support us so from ayurvedic frameworks to even mantra.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to different grounding techniques.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): All of yoga, like what we started with, is here to to support us.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And then I also wanted to say, like, here's all the gratitudes and acknowledgments, because it's like this, work is always continuing
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And so naming Tamo Kun's white supremacy culture, but also
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): all the other folks who've contributed to this work. It's it's down there
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and more.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So I hope that's supportive. I'll stop sharing now and then,
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah, just invite in any other reflections. Yeah, Dana.
dana (she/her): Can I? Can I ask if the
dana (she/her): if what you shared you said? It's also in in your book. Embrace your ghost roots. Is that like entire like, I'll be able to find that entirely.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): No, the.
dana (she/her): Or.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): The practices from Yoga's roots that support us in dealing with trauma is entirely there. I would say my book was sort of the
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I began talking about how white supremacy culture shows up in Yoga spaces. But this goes much more in depth, this Google, Doc, or whatever, just because was like continuing to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): to develop it. Yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): yeah.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's helpful, right? Like, kind of overwhelming sometimes. And I'm like, Oh, yeah, there's all these things. But then, as I just read the anxiety and fear one. I'm like, right?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm experiencing that. There's it's not just me. It's these systems, and I can return to the antidotes.
dana (she/her): I love. I like what we love. What you said Jerga, is is really in naming the structures it's like to be able to say, here are the behaviors.
dana (she/her): Here's the here's here's how this is working. It's like
dana (she/her): there's this feeling of like
dana (she/her): cutting through bullshit.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Absolutely. Yeah, like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): clearing it out. Just some water.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): so I'd love to know
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): if you wanna share in the in the chat or out loud. If there's anything that you're
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): gonna take away today with you. And I think for me.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): it's no
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): invited my bell with my journal, but I think for me it's
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It's that insight of caring for myself, too, as a practice of social justice, and trusting myself so self-trust and self-care.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I think that talking with a friend this morning
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): who has a chronic health condition, a heart condition.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): And it's like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we're reflecting on how hard actually resting is like truly taking care and resting. It's it's actually really hard. The impulse to produce or to work or to distract
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): is so strong and so really like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): connecting to
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): like. It's okay to surrender. And, like my dog, Harmony is right here, you know, like watching the other beings that are really good at rest and care, and maybe taking a cue from them. So that's what I'm taking away.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): I'm grateful to each of you for
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): your presence and for your insights today.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So
Carly Joelle: I think, in the same thread that value of
Carly Joelle: pausing and taking care, because it's
Carly Joelle: every month when this session comes around.
Carly Joelle: I do an alright job, but a lot of the times I'll like. I would have maybe let
Carly Joelle: my having to travel like just my poorly planned dentist appointment disrupted. And then this refills my cup so much, even though I'm not able to be sitting. How I would like at my altar. But I'm still here and receiving, and then that
Carly Joelle: motivates me to continue to set aside time each day to tend to tend to it all.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, thank you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Anyone else.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Do you know that I'm not alone?
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Am I yearning for justice
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): for everyone that this love
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): that has very deep roots are in alignment with the practice of others around the world, and throughout time. Yes.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): my takeaway was the sprinkle Utah
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): about what was it called. Oh, Eileen, what are you? What did I say?
Eilene Franco Brooks (she/her): About Carly driving in that, I think, even if you're busy just immersing yourself in it something like that. You said it much more eloquently.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Yeah, yeah, no, the Dharma rain. So. And I put it in the chat. So allowing, like
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the teachings, the the supportive teachings, and you can listen to like dharma talks, or you know things in yoga class curator, right? Even putting on a meditation or a practice, or listening to playlists, mantra playlists on spotify, or whatever your music app of choice is
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): all of that is like watering these good seeds or watering seeds of liberation, of freedom, of joy, of peace. And
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): you know, the truth is.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): often we are the Dharma rain for other people like through like, I think about the kids that you're teaching, you know, like you're giving them those sprinkles. Not all of them may receive it, and the way you want them to. At the moment they might be very haywire, but but it's still dharma rain, you know. It's still like it's there. And so it's this beautiful process of letting ourselves get kind of filled up.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and then we also are pouring that out and sharing it.
Eilene Franco Brooks (she/her): Thank you. It's beautiful.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Hmm! Well, thank you so much to each of you. I'm just so grateful for you all being here and for your practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and I thought maybe we could close with one of the Shanti mantras
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the the one that
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): type it in there.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): It sends well, wishes to ourselves
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): the 1st time we chant.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): then to a particular person the second time, and then the 3rd time is to all beings
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and all beings can sometimes feel a little bit abstract. So you can also think of like a particular group of people I know for me right now.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): because of living in Florida. And you know, having gone through what so many people they're going through. I've really got
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): folks there on my heart right now, and so I'll be
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): holding all of them, and all beings, like all the animals you know in in care, and it essentially translates to may
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): we all be
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): safe? May we all be free from suffering.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Maybe I'll be healthy. Maybe I'll be happy and full of everlasting joy.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): So if you'd like to chant aloud, you can, if you'd like to just receive or
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): visualize it internally, or repeat the word peace in your mind, whatever you would you would like. We can bring your hands together at your heart
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): deep breath in
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): full breath, out
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): let me begin and end with Om.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Loca, Sam hastaha
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): suki no pavantu.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Lucaha, Samastaha, Sukino pavantu
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Lucaha, Samastaha sukino avantu!
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Oh.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): thank you so much for your presence. Thank you so much for your practice.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): Thank you to each of you.
Susanna Barkataki (she/her): and have a beautiful, beautiful day and week, and I'll see you soon.
Eilene Franco Brooks (she/her): Thank you for your time today. Appreciate it.
dana (she/her): Thank you.