Accessible Yoga Workshop Announcement - Oct 15, 2022

Workshop Announcement

Braiding Knowledge - Trauma-informed Yoga for Indigenous Peoples

2:45pm PST (Virtual)

Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Doctoral researcher, Jessica Barudin shares her experiences developing a unique program alongside community partners, knowledge keepers, yogis, artists, and scholars that integrates yogic and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw knowledge to contribute to First Nations women’s toolkit of grounding and body-based practices to promote healing and wellness. Through the research-making phase, the First Nations Women’s Yoga initiative (FNWYI) was created, an Indigenous community, collective, or organization (ICCO) in partnership with Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw communities, the Yoga Outreach Society, and the student researcher. The FNWYI goal is to prepare First Nations women and two-spirit people to practice and offer culturally-rooted yoga programs in their communities.

Along with an 80-hour trauma-informed yoga curriculum and virtual training, Jessica will share how working with fluent speakers and knowledge keepers is supporting embodied language learning through the practice of yoga and meditation.

Join this discussion to experience a Kwak'wala mindfulness practice and understand the importance for First Nations women to see and experience themselves, their value, and their cultures and languages represented in an accessible and safe community approaches to wellness.

Connect with Jessica: @jessicabarudin

75 min. For this session we recommend having: a notebook & pen or device for note-taking, a candle, and water.

About the Accessible Yoga Conference

Join us for our biggest event of the year, our annual Accessible Yoga Conference Online, October 14-17, 2021. The theme for this year’s conference is Elevating Voices, Embracing Change. We’re thrilled to platform an incredibly diverse group of over fifty presenters who will be sharing their wisdom and experience in making yoga accessible and equitable. We’re elevating the voices of teachers and practitioners who are often under-estimated and marginalized in yoga spaces. This is part of the change we’re embracing - a new vision of a yoga community based on ethics and equity. A community that is founded on care and compassion, with space for everyone to join in.