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Closed Captions (PDF) YA - CE Workshop | Separation: Yogis and Social (USYACE1103C) Closed Captioning/ Transcript Disclaimer Closed captioning and/or transcription is being provided solely for the convenience of our viewers. Yoga Alliance does not review for accuracy any information that appears in a closed caption or transcript. Yoga Alliance makes no representations or warranties, and expressly disclaims any responsibility or liability with respect to, any errors or omissions in, or the accuracy, reliability, timeliness or completeness of, any information that appears in a closed caption or transcript. SUSANNA BARKATAKI: Hello everyone and welcome. Welcome to this continuing education YogaAlliance panel. I'm so honoured and happy to welcome you to be here with you. My name is Susanna Barkataki and I'm here with Kallie Schut and we would love to invite you to let us know where you are joining from today. And there is a location poll that popped up and you can tick which place you are here from. I'm going to take a moment to introduce us and then we will begin with a drop in and a meditation. I am an author and a yoga Unity activist, my pronouns are she/her/hers and I am here with you all on the unseated land. Colonized as Orlando Florida. This is session one separation: Yogis and Social Justice and I'm so, so honoured to be here with our guest, Kallie Schut and I'm going to read Callie's bio. Kallie is a yoga and traditions educator who is a long line Social Justice and antiracist activist. Advocating for those without a voice in places with power and privilege, Kallie is YogaAlliance certified a 500 hour teacher of Indian heritage practising intentional yoga meditation and for for 35 years. Kallie it is one of the founding members of the UK founding teachers and is also the founder of rebel yoga tribe YouTube channel, radical yogi book club and delivers continuing professional education trainings, which delve deep into the legacy of colonialism and modern yoga. Welcome, Kallie we are so happy to be here with you. KALLIE SCHUT: Thank you, namaste. Welcome. This is nice, thank you, Susanna. SUSANNA BARKATAKI: You are so welcome. Important for folks to note this is, we have the qualifications needed for this to be a continuing education credit workshop for you all, it is a four-part series, this the first of 4 parts. And we are following the parts on the framework of how to embrace yoga's roots, looking for a step of separation which we will eXplore today, reflection, which is the 2nd part neXt week, the following week is connection through action and then the final week is liberation. I myself, have in our YTD 500, and a YogaAlliance continuing education provider, yoga therapist, and practitioner and I also have a Masters in education. I share all of those things because one, it is helpful to know who is in the space but also more than anything, I'm a student of yoga and a practitioner and my teaching comes from that place of always being open to learning and so I'm really grateful to be here with you all. You can type in the chat, we would love to know where you are here from in the chat. You can type that there, and then, if you have specific questions that you want to make sure we answer, the best way to get your questions answered is to put them in the Q&A. If you look at the bottom YA - CE Workshop | Separation: Yogis and Social (USYACE1103C) of your resume there is a Q&A feature you can put questions on the bottom for us there, and the tab we would love to know where you are here from and one or 2 words of how your heart is today, how are you doing, how is your heart? And so, welcome from Calgary, welcome from Utah, thank you. I feel warm and connected, those are my 2 words. Yes. Very busy. Honouring that as well. All of the ways. We are going to begin with a drop in, and I will invite and that we will get the conversation, welcome, it is so great to see you well, some of you I know, and it's wonderful to see you and some of you are new to me. So much appreciation, and for folks who are watching the replay as well. I like to invite a bell, I learned this from my meditation teacher. He always talks about inviting the bell and not striking or hitting the bell, and listening to the bell as an invitation to come back to our home within. If that feels inaccessible to maybe imagine what it might feel like to come back home. So I invite the bell. (Bell rings) Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. And breathing out. I am aware that I am breathing out. In, and out. If you are walking, driving, please keep your eyes open and stay alert. If you are in a space or you can let your attention be a little bit more soft and gentle, then maybe you relax your gaze on a certain spot and let your focus be soft. Let your eyes and gently close. And we will begin to tune in to our breathing. And with every inhale, let yourself explore into your intention of connecting to yoga today, right here in this moment. And with every exhale, release a little bit and let go and trust your connection. Inhale, enlivening the intention. And eXhale, releasing and letting go. Bring to mind your teachers, those who have taught you yoga from whom you have learned this practice. And maybe, you are quite new and you have just one or 2 teachers or maybe you have been on this path for many, many years. And you've got 10, 20, 30 even hundreds of teachers. Call all of those that have taught you yoga to mind. And if it feels appropriate to you, offer them some gratitude. Some deep care and reverence. For passing this practice along to you in a way that they have done. Thank you to my teachers and then acknowledge that your teachers to have teachers. And you may know those teachers or you may not, and that those teachers have teachers. On and on back through time and space. Probably in not too many generations. We find ourselves in the subcontinent of India and South Asia, Sri Lanka, and in earlier times, in this valley, the river valley, where yoga practitioners took on many forms. Practising outskirts of villages, under trees, by rivers and streams, at the foot of mountains, and caves. And others practised in villages. In cities, and communities. Seeking liberation and freedom from suffering. And perhaps, their aspirations are not so different than yours. Although, the form may have been unique to their time and place. Feeling your connection to these early yoga practitioners from South Asia, and taking a moment in your way to acknowledge and think and offer gratitude. To these teachers and students without whom the practice would not be with us today. Now you can let them go. As you are ready, come back through time through yourself, connecting back into your intention and your Page 2 of 13 Downloaded on: 15 Mar 2021 10:03 AM YA - CE Workshop | Separation: Yogis and Social (USYACE1103C) presence, your reasons for being here. And acknowledge her students if you teach, but also for those who are learning and wanting to deepen with yoga who don't formally teach, maybe by how you are being or who you are being, how you live your yoga ethics, you are to passing on this practice. And so, it comes to us through time, through space, not without challenge, without the impacts of colonization. Without separation. Butts, how you transmit and share yoga determines the future of this practice. And so, there is an unbroken line like a candlelight being passed down from generation to generation. And you 2 are one of the bearers of this light. And so, thanking your students formally or informally, and then coming back to yourself with your breath, right here right now. And find an anchor in this resource, perhaps installing that light, the candle at the heart and the mind. And knowing you can return to that light, even when your practice is challenging, where the external world is challenging, feeling a deep sense of integration and trust. If you would like to receive this, from the tradition of yoga. And we will begin to close this meditation, I invite you to bring your left and right hand together at the heart. United in past, present, future. And we will close our meditation with the sound of ohm. .. Transformation. In the whole sound together that which has been gone beyond time space, shape and form. Take a deep breath and ommmm peace, peace, peace. We can shift a little bit left and right in your space looking around the room that you are in noticing light and form and color and then we will come back to this shared circle. Thank you for being here and thank you for being part of this exploration and this conversation. I love do sometimes take a moment to hear from folks if there was anything in the meditation or the guidance that was enlivened for you and Kallie just opening up to you if there's anything you would like to share as well.
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