community donation yin yoga begins october 4th!!!

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i want to help people feel better. i want to help people find agency in their own healing.  as we begin to trust ourselves deeply and unconditionally we can create reciprocal relationship with earth and all her creatures. when we heal ourselves we can help heal others and our collectives and our earth. the personal is political and the political is personal.  loving ourselves is a gift. being human is miraculous. healing is pure magic.  

  • loving ourselves fully is a never-ending process of accepting the present moment.

  • being human is daily practice of being with what is.

  • healing is our capacity to be still and find love.

yin yoga is a place i love to practice being human.  it awakens me to inner oceans of my being.  it gives me room in my life to navigate the wrongs of our world.  

i invite you to join me 

MONDAY OCTOBER 4TH 2021  @7:30pm in the zoom room 

Community Donation Somatic Yin Yoga.

we will start our time together with a brief meditation and then move through a series of postures for our lungs. here is all of the zoom info you will need.  as always the passcode is: you are love.     

please join me for the last quarter of the year.  let us prepare ourselves for the winter and honor the slowing of the season.  in october we will focus our practice on our lungs, moving through sequences to open our diaphragm and release tension in our ribs and shoulders allowing more movement in our chest so our breath can support us through the chill of winter.  

Community donation Somatic Yin Yoga w/ Cat Walker  fall 2021

  • October 4th

  • October 11th

  • October 18th video link

  • October 25th

  • November 1st

  • November 8th

  • November 15th

  • November 22nd

  • November 29th video link

  • December 6th last meeting together in 2021

yin yoga is a practice in grounding ourselves.  staying grounded in the commotion of life is an important daily action we can practice to honor what we most deeply need. do you know what it is you most deeply need? 

this months yin message...

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it is hard for me to begin. putting myself into motion brings up fear. the somatic yin yoga that i practice, teach and study is an examination of what is present in the body. this work as i understand it currently (i believe that understanding evolves as one actively engages in study and practice) is a way into ourselves so that we may witness our deepest needs, tend to them and grow into our most honest selves. selves that are capable of compassion. human vessels of generous hearts and resilient souls. i imagine this work of embodiment, of sitting with ourselves, as a way to understand and value our worth, inherent in our existence.

this work is also one of the ways i am unlearning white cowardice nee supremacy. as a white cis gendered queer women of colonial ancestry i am acutely aware that i walk a path close to appropriation when i am participating in yoga culture. i am navigating this path because i need to practice being in my body with myself. precisely because our country is founded on the dis-embodiment of an entire group of white people who captured, kidnapped and imprisoned black people to exploit their labor. in order to create the cultural context of race, in order to convince oneself that it is okay to capture and enslave another human one must disembody. this ancestral colonial wound of disembodiment is immense. it is rarely acknowledged. we live it in the ways that certain bodies are worshipped and objectified while other bodies and ways of existence are marginalized and systematically oppressed and murdered. we often discuss race, white supremacy and racial inequality as issues that Black people must reckon with. but the onus, to understand this moment in time as the consequence of the enslavement and exploitation of african people, is on white people. it does not feel good to acknowledge these ancestral traumas of perpetration. we (white people of colonial ancestry) have to sit and know this discomfort in order to admit that our world as we know it, amidst pandemics, and state sanctioned racial violence is the consequence of that enslavement and exploitation. this concept is one that i have been working on for years. and am just now beginning to articulate as i study yoga in more depth. i am always willing to be in conversation about my white privilege and how to unlearn and dismantle white cowardice nee supremacy.

simply because the more i study the eight limbed path, i am only beginning, the more i realize and understand yoga is a practice about living peacefully with others. not good vibes only shit, but grounded inner peace that is witness to all life: trans queer plant, anima, human, earth space stardust life, and all the death and messiness that comes with existing.

and so this practice, this learning and unlearning, is how i want to be in the world. it is how i honor the lives of those who have gone before me. it is the way i will help others heal. this work is how i value my worth, inherent in my existence.