explore, in microdoses, how I can be more yoga
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A Space to
rewilding noir
This space is a place I come to integrate and share my thoughts, learnings, conversations, tools, practices, musings and spells, in bize-size chunks, around all the ways I can rewild and come home to myself. I came to realise that I was living buried beneath the heavy layers of other people's expectations, society's demands, the weight of old school teachers' predictions and even friends' judgements. I felt trapped, of course, un-free. Once I discovered (decolonised) yoga, I realised I could peel off these sticky layers and figure out who it is exactly who lies beneath, and in doing that I could feel free and distinctly more me.
At its simplest, Rewilding Noir is the thinking and actions I have to to focus on every day to take care of myself and others in an anti-Black world.
Spiritual
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Anything I know, learn or share of yoga is not mine. I come from a long line of teachers, students and practice. I offer thanks to my teachers and deep reverence for the practice of yoga. I’m deeply grateful to study and practice yoga in the tradition of engaged Hatha yoga in the Shankaracharya tradition. I am above all so grateful to my incredible teacher, Susanna Barkataki, for sharing the roots of yoga in a 300 hour decolonised Yoga Teacher Training.
As a mixed race woman of Black Jamaican and White British heritage, yoga is not of my culture and I continue to learn with respect and openness. My teaching is not reflective of yoga in its entirety as a 5000-year old spiritual practice, and I acknowledge that I am not, nor will ever likely be, an expert in the full breadth of yoga.
