Enlivening our innate capacity for joy, compassion, loving-kindness, and equanimity.
Open to BIPOC and allies.
Through the practices of gentle flow, restorative yoga, meditation, and discussion we will open to the heart qualities of joy, compassion, loving-kindness, and equanimity. These qualities are inherent to our being and get obscured through conditioning, stress, and trauma. Practice bringing the heart into balance in uncertain times. Beginners are welcome. In beloved community, we will co-create an anti-racist, anti-patriarchal, pro-Trans, pro-Queer, pro-Immigrant space through community agreements. Open to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) and white allies. White, male-identifed, straight, and cis folks must have previous analyzing and leveraging their privilege and acting as ally to folks with less privilege.
This workshop will be assisted by Sonia Montoya.
Investment: This workshop is offered with a sliding scale of $40-$54, and the online system supports 2 separate options $40, and $54. Please register below with one of these price points. Note: $27 registration option no longer available.
One partial scholarship at $18 and one full scholarship are available. Please email oakland@arise.yoga with your scholarship requests.
Please pay full price if you have access to your own home, vehicle, or make more than $40,000/year without a lot of debt or medical expenses. We invite you to stretch what you have to offer to support Black and Brown teachers of color. Please give from the heart and an amount that feels good to you. Please consider that you may be taking a spot away from someone else if you can give more.
About Satya
Offering 13 years of experience teaching yoga, Satya de la Paz (she/her) inspires students to fall in love with their bodies and their practice. Deeply inspired by her years as an educator in West Oakland, she infuses dynamic alignment, chanting, storytelling, and community-building into her classes.
Satya offers Yoga as a means of collective and personal liberation and decolonization: accessing our innate healing capacity through therapeutics and compassion, meeting media-driven body shame through mindfulness and affirmation, freeing the heart of resentment and blame, and healing the mind of ableist and hierarchical ways of moving and acting. Multiple expressions of poses are offered as students are encouraged to listen to their own body wisdom and access needs.
About Sonia
Sonia Montoya (she/ella/they) is a movement teacher, educator, ancestral storyteller, and holistic self-healer based in the East Bay. She received her RYT 200hrs certification in the first class cohort with Community Rizing: People of Color Yoga Teacher Training with founder/core yoga teacher Rolf Gates and meditation teacher/author, Spring Washam.
Her journey as a queer bi femme Chicana/Latinx teacher is to share the offerings of yogic healing in the body by reclaiming the roots of yoga to one's practice in liberating ourselves toward healing. Sonia returned to yoga through her holistic self-healing journey while in recovery with a chronic illness that threatened her life. She gives gratitude everyday to her yoga practice for saving her life by bringing her back home to her body-temple, mind, and spirit. Sonia honors and creates courageous space for all to be seen and witnessed in their practice. She believes teachers are always students first. Sonia brings courage, radical compassion, and a conviction in treasuring the community with her wherever she goes. Her mission is to inspire liberation and embodiment in the body. Off the mat, Sonia is a change agent in higher education with 10+ years of experience in academic and student affairs.
