YOGA + GENDER
Solidarity as a Practice for Collective Transformation
with Isazela "Zel" Amanzi, Tristan Katz, & Anjali Rao
Thursdays, May 9th-30th ~ 10-noon PT / 1-3 ET
live | online | captioned | recorded
We will explore yoga history as it relates to ancient women, femme, and gender expansive folks through various mediums such as literature, art, and poetry. This inquiry will inform an exploration of the modern yoga context and best practices to cultivate liberation-oriented spaces. We will look at ways in which we practice cross sectional solidarity, and build authentic relationships across differences for collective transformation.
This 4 week comprehensive series delves into the dynamics of gender in yoga, through history to the present moment.
Meet the Facilitators
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Isazela "Zel" Amanzi (They/He), M.S.Ed, CYT is a Blacqueer, neuroqueer, agender transbeing, sacred energy educator, facilitator, speaker, and writer. With formal and community training in social justice education, child development, western Reiki, and tantric yoga, he centers his practices and teachings on the intersections of disability justice, neurodiversity, ancestral connection, energy work, somatic inquiry, personal transformation & counter-colonial community-building at the margins. Zel is also a poet, a gardener, and an analog enthusiast. They are a co-founder of Trans Futures Collective and meditation and sound practitioner with Cuties LA. You can join their public classes, or hire him for private sessions and consulting. @transgressivemedicine + zelamanzi.substack.com
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Tristan Katz (they/he) is a digital strategist, equity-inclusion facilitator, and sometimes yoga teacher. They specialize in content marketing strategies for justice-focused leaders and queer-trans diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging training and consulting. Tristan’s intention is to share this work with an anti-oppression and intersectional lens. Tristan is honored to have worked with and supported organizations and clients such as Portland Public Schools, HubSpot, Stanford University’s YogaX program, Accessible Yoga School, Breathe for Change, and so many more. He was named one of Yoga Journal’s 2021 Game Changers, and spent several years serving on the Board of Directors at Accessible Yoga before the non-profit dissolved in early 2024. @tristankatzcreative
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Anjali Rao (she/her) is a yoga educator -practitioner who offers insight into the Yoga stories and histories that have been obscured by heteropatriarchy, and colonization. Her work deconstructs the dynamics of power in yoga with multi disciplinary approach in integrating yoga philosophy and history. She is an Indian American immigrant, a cancer survivor, and is on the faculty of many continuing education yoga programs. She is the host of The Love of Yoga podcast, and shares thought provoking conversations with yoga scholars and activists on the frontlines of liberatory movements. @yoganjali
Yoga
Solidarity
Future
Gender
History
Action
Power
Present
Liberation
Practice
Transcendence
Thursdays, May 9th-30th
10-noon PT / 1-3 ET
live | online | captioned | recorded
Session Overview
Session 1: Anjali will guide an exploration of history from a non-patriarchal lens, uncovering the truth of gender expansive and femme yoga figures across time and space.
Session 2: The modern yoga context cannot be separated from the contemporary socio-political moment. This session will include reflection and conversation as we ignite our practice—and relationship to the practice, to create more liberatory spaces, in yoga and beyond.
Session 3: Affinity spaces will be the primary focus in our third session as we reflect and explore principled cross-sectional solidarity and community engagement.
Session 4: Zel will offer abolitionist frameworks as they relate to yoga, gender, and collective change. We will close with additional conversation, reflection, and practice to fuel our ongoing commitment to the liberatory teachings of yoga.
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