NEWS:
BYTA Launches Its First National Initiative
YOGA AS A PEACE PRACTICE
Redefining black lives and restoring peace and pride
in our homes and communities.
Juneous Pettijohn
Crystal McCreary
LaTenia CaldwelFIVE SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED TO ATTEND BYTA 2016 CONFERENCE
The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health awarded five full scholarships to attend the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance conference, August 25-28, 2016. The scholarships cover the full amounts of the conference tuition, accommodations and meals. The teachers awarded scholarships offer a wide range of approaches to yoga and their unique experience and teaching styles. Each one will teach a sunrise yoga class between 6:00-7:30am during the conference. There will be two consecutive practices offered on Friday and Saturday and one on Sunday. The scholarship recipients are:
Kiesha Battles
Jason A. Charles
Rollover or tap recipient's photo to read their bio
Violence has been a staple in the history of African people in America. Systematized marginalization, inequality and injustice have shaped African American lives in every century, past and present. In the 21st century violence has become predominate in our world, excessively permeating black lives. In an effort to address this, the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance will launch Yoga As A Peace Practice, a national initiative aimed at addressing violence and its deleterious impact upon the black community.
We will kick-off this initiative at our inaugural conference, August 25-28, 2016, at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA.
Yoga As A Peace Practice Initiative is an activist movement with goals of cultivating compassion, self-love, health and well-being for individuals, families and communities. The initiative will offer a curriculum designed to enable yoga teachers to take action by offering yoga, meditation practices and yoga based lifestyle philosophies to those who have been subjected to a life of violence and victims of violence. Our curriculum has also been created to measure the efficacy of yoga to heal violent and self-sabotaging behaviors, and to develop strategies for mindful living to improve quality of life.
We are excited to launch the first national initiative of the BYTA organization to support and guide black yoga teachers to make a difference in the lives of our people, and to bring yoga into communities where yoga classes and yoga studios are often not available. Through Yoga As A Peace Practice Initiative Black yoga teachers will make a positive impact on the world in which we live.
Yoga As A Peace Practice initiative targets these special populations:
• People who live in stressful environments where violence and abuse are prevalent;
• Professionals who provide counseling and services to the underserved and abused
such as counselors, teachers, social workers, mentors, and civil servants;
• People who perpetrate violent and abusive behavior against others, with special
focus on violence within public and private institutions.
Yoga As A Peace Practice takes yoga off the mat, out of the studio and into the lives of everyday people to transform and elevate their experiences of self-awareness, self-care and self-love.
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