Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Yoga para mi gente

Sometimes your vision gets to be made real.  For me I had this vision for creating a brown space at my home studio, The People's Yoga.

Sally approached me about teaching a class in Spanish, and I laid out my vision. She supported it fully....which meant getting me my first yoga photo shoot (note the sweet photo on this blog taken by Maggie Jane Cech!) for the fliers.  I wanted to market exclusively in Spanish for Spanish speaking Latinos in my community, and it came together through my outreach and relationships with my Catholic church and fandango community.  It was donation only, with all monies going to support Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice.  Then I got some Latina healers to join me to make this a really healing space, with massage, acupuncture and herbs.  Gracias Mary, Adrianna, and Lara for making it extra.   Thanks to Sally for being a fabulous ally. 

The folks who showed up were beautiful.  Working class, elders, disabled folks, kids, a guy who broke his leg playing soccer and wanted to do yoga anyway.  Mi gente.  Most had never ever done yoga before!  

I got to fully apply all that I had learned in the Accessible Yoga training.

I learned so much and loved it all. 

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