SEYN

SEYN

Socially Engaged Yoga Network (SEYN) supports yoga teachers and community organizations committed to sharing the benefits of yoga with under-resourced communities in the Chicagoland area.  We build partnerships in the fields of community health, social services, environmental sustainability, and education to improve health, empower communities, and leverage resources for positive social change.

Yoga and Antiracism Movement - Imagining Possibility
May
21
6:00 PM18:00

Yoga and Antiracism Movement - Imagining Possibility

We’re looking forward to exploring with you the idea and practice of imagining possibility! Whose imaginations dreamt the systems we live with today? Whose imaginations influence you? What is the importance of imagination to antiracist movement historically and now? What are yoga practices that cultivate our capacity to dream bigger? What is the connection between individual and collective imagination? Together we'll delve into a dreamy space of possibility with discussion and practice!

Engage with compelling ideas around this theme with a panel of organizers and healers, moderated by restorative justice advocate and yoga leader DuShaun Branch Pollard! Panelists include TRACC for Movements founder Teresa Mateus, and Chicago BLM co-founder Aislinn Pulley who is also co-executive director of Chicago Torture Justice Center.

Dive deeper and make new connections in the break out sessions!

Get Dreamy with an exploratory yoga nidra practice from Yoli Maya Yeh.

Connect with culturally relevant yoga resources for continued support, and/or plug in to antiracism movement work if you haven’t already.

This event is free for antiracism activists, organizers, and yoga teachers. Donations accepted. Register in advance to attend.

Check back soon for presenter and panelist bios!

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SEYN WINTER GATHERING: YOGA AND ANTIRACISM MOVEMENT - Resilience
Jan
22
5:30 PM17:30

SEYN WINTER GATHERING: YOGA AND ANTIRACISM MOVEMENT - Resilience

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We’re looking forward to exploring with you the idea of *resilience* in yoga and antiracism movement. This feels especially relevant in the face of the overt white supremacist violence happening now, and reflecting back on what activists endured last summer - how to support the resilience of antiracism movement. What is working? How has the concept been misused to perpetuate oppression? What does the yoga tradition say about resilience?

Engage with compelling ideas around this theme with a panel of activists and healers and healer activists including yoga leader and restorative justice advocate DuShawn Branch Pollard.

Dive deeper and make new connections in the break out sessions.

Restore and recharge with accessible yoga practices including breathing and meditation from DuShaun, and a special opening ancestor ritual from Zhara.

Connect with culturally relevant yoga resources for continued support, and/or plug in to antiracism movement work if you haven’t already.

This event is free for antiracism activists, organizers, and yoga teachers. Donations accepted. Register in advance to attend.

With gratitude to Alyson Godbolt of Healing Every Revolutionary (H.E.R.) for collaborating on the creation of this event, and Crossraods Fund for helping us make it happen!

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SEYN Circles
Dec
13
4:00 PM16:00

SEYN Circles

SEYN offers two monthly unique dedicated online circles for yoga leaders: Regeneration Station for BBIPOC leaders and Transformation Station for white-privileged leaders. These stations are rest stops to rejuvenate and process what it is to hold space for restoration and transformation of self and community through anti-racist and decolonized lenses.

REGISTER HERE!

Regeneration Station: Support Circle for BBIPOC Yoga Leaders

Space to recharge, and discuss the unique challenges and inspiration that come with being a BBIPOC yoga leader at this time. BBIPOC yoga leaders have been on the forefront of holding healing space during these tumultuous times. Regeneration Station is a landing place for you to receive support, to recharge and regenerate and to discuss the unique challenges and inspiration that come with being a BBIPOC yoga leader during this time.

Transformation Station: Accountability Circle for White* Yoga Leaders

*This circle is especially for white, white-passing, and white-privileged people, but any yoga leader is welcome to attend.

For yoga leaders already in the process of examining their own privilege and complicity. Does not take the place of antiracism training. Yoga leaders with white privilege are being called upon to decolonize your practices and yoga spaces. Some of you have been doing this work all along and some have just begun to learn the harm that colonization, commodification and white-washing of yoga have caused and to unlearn your own harmful mindsets and behaviors that perpetuate oppression. Either way, the work and journey of anti-racism is lifelong.

This circle is for processing and sharing the inspiration and challenges that come with unpacking and unlearning racism as a white yoga leader during this time, and to hold each other accountable in the spirit of helping to foster safer, braver, healing, liberated yoga spaces. Circle themes will be guided by anti-racism readings from BBIPOC thinkers and leaders.

To be clear, this circle is for yoga leaders who have already begun the work of examining their own privilege and complicity, and does NOT take the place of anti-oppression training.

REGISTER HERE!

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Yoga and Antiracism Movement
Oct
2
6:00 PM18:00

Yoga and Antiracism Movement

SEYN AUTUMN GATHERING: YOGA AND ANTIRACISM MOVEMENT: Transformation, Liberation, Resilience, Possibility

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For our Autumn gathering, SEYN partners with Haji Healing Salon to bring together an outstanding panel of inspiring leaders in antiracism movement work.

Our discussion and yoga practice will focus on “transformation” - in antiracism movements including transformative justice, and in yoga - and how they interconnect.

Engage with compelling ideas around this theme with Trap House founder Mashaun Hendricks, Associate Director of Truth Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) - Greater Chicago Pilar Audain, and Haji Healing Salon yoga teacher Mila K. Marshall.

Dive deeper and make new connections in the break out sessions.

Then restore and transform with accessible yoga practices including breathing and meditation from Mila K.

This event is free for antiracism activists, organizers, and yoga teachers. Donations accepted. REGISTER HERE in advance to attend.

With gratitude to Crossroads Fund for funding to support this event!

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