Fund Aspiring BIPOC Yoga Teachers!

The Bhakti Yoga Movement Center
START
09
February 2022
10:00 AM PST
END
02
April 2022
06:00 PM PDT
RAISED
$1,129.00
GOAL $3,000.00
37.6% To Goal

About Our Auction

Through our own lived experiences, we know that the world desperately needs more Black and brown yoga and movement teachers, and practitioners.

Within just one day of opening the application for our Yoga and Somatics School, we've already received requests from people who are often excluded from mainstream Western yoga spaces. Many of these folks are unable to pay the true cost of our program.

That's why we need your help to fund full and partial scholarships for our Black and brown yoga school students!

Your donation will make it possible for students who are most often marginalized by mainstream Western yoga and wellness spaces to experience, learn, share, and grow the liberatory potential of yoga. Donations will also be used to help our BIPOC and queer-led small business yoga center survive the continued challenges of the pandemic.

Learn more about our school: https://www.thebymc.com/teacher-training

Inspired to support further? Donate to our fundraiser: https://gofund.me/768be398


About The Bhakti Yoga Movement Center

The Bhakti Yoga Movement Center (BYMC) is a place for yoga, movement, embodiment and somatic practice. We offer regular in-person and livestream classes, a pre-recorded class library with over 500 classes, and workshops and events. Our classes welcome ALL of you: your laughter, tears, and desire for rest and connection. We resist perfectionism and the ways that Western yoga and wellness industries have caused harm by centering white, skinny, cis gendered and able-bodied people. We are students first and always and share what excites us in our own practices to help inspire yours. We are well-studied in anatomy and trauma-informed approaches and utilize props and creative explorations to deepen practice.

We recently launched our 300 hour Yoga school & Teacher Training program where students will immerse into practices and philosophies of yoga and somatics while learning how to guide foundational yoga classes. We emphasize critical engagement with the material and won’t be giving scripts to memorize or pre-made class sequences. Instead, students will engage with information, experiential exercises and group-work to encourage your curiosity and creativity. Topics of study include: human anatomy, teaching methodology, trauma-informed approaches & restorative practices, yoga philosophy and history, and power dynamics in relation to all of these.

Within just one day of opening the application, we received requests from people who are often excluded from mainstream Western yoga spaces - Black and brown people, queer and trans people, people in larger bodies, people with disabilities, and trauma survivors. Many of these folks are unable to pay the true cost of our program.

We are seeking donations to make it possible for students who are most often marginalized by mainstream Western yoga and wellness spaces to experience, learn, share, and grow the liberatory potential of yoga.

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