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.

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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.

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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.

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