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YOGA + SOCIAL JUSTICE: TILL MOVIE SCREENING + DISCUSSION IN TWO PARTS →
February 12+26 Join Us
In studio-event @ 4 Corners Yoga + Wellness
“A White boy’s fun is a Black boy’s lawlessness.” - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
4 Corners Yoga +Wellness, hosts, a bi-weekly book club, Candid Conversations, which allows us to explore books on race, social injustice and oppressive practices. We’ve been meeting as a community of social justice investors for almost two and a half years. The work has prompted deep reflection, uncomfortable discourse, and most importantly truths through experiences. Through it all we took time to breathe, honor our collective lived experiences. To acknowledge what was coming up in our body and to handle it with care.
We’ve built relationships and continue to be active participants in moving the needle forward. The screening of the movie TIL, with a reflection and impact discussion is purposeful in our intention to move forward.
The purpose of Session One and Two is to raise social and racial justice awareness. Participants gather to watch the movie, Till; listen, discuss and reflect upon our deeply rooted untold American history. The goal is to raise our collective consciousness about hate and systemic racism. Ways to recognize it in the places we show up in and how to intentionally push back on situations and systems that continue to oppress will be discussed.
Guiding Principles – One might wonder what social justice, dismantling inequity in a racist system and raising collective awareness of these issues, has to do with yoga. Yoga cannot be reduced to only the movement and practice on the mat. It calls for us to bring into union, body, mind and spirit and as a community our experiences interconnect both in the studio and out in the world.
The Yamas which is one of the eight limbs of yoga helps to lead the way and define why this work should be part of our practice as well. These are moral codes of conduct for how we interact with our world, listing non-harming (ahimsa), truthfulness (satya), right use of energy (brahmacharya), non-greed (asteya) and non-attachment (aparigraha) as a start for how we should approach this work and our lives.
Satya (truthfulness) - When we initially thought of this event it was a way of going deeper, of exploring the past and facing the history. We thought of two separate viewings, an affinity group with white participants only at the first event and a joint group with everyone else for the larger discussion. In the planning stages, one of our members asked, “why not an affinity group for everyone else?”
We took a soft pause.
Our thinking is that it may be difficult for non-white folks to view the movie and “re-live” the harshness and oppression that still plays out today. We thought in that choice we were minimizing the harm (ahimsa). In that moment of questioning, we realize firstly, that we were not being equitable and secondly, we were also taking agency away from each participant to make their own choice to attend the workshop.
Another pause, without strong attachment to our initial idea, we let go of the first and allowed for the second. The event is opened to anyone who is so inclined to collectively view, reflect and discuss the movie “Till”.
We respect that this still may not work for everyone, but we believe that should not mean we sit in indecisive limbo. We are mindfully aware to hold space for positive reflection and hope you will join us for this event.
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu
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