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Expecting Unexpected Bodies: Teaching Yoga to Queer, Trans and Disabled Communities

Presented by Studio 34 at Studio 34

January 15, 2011

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Expecting Unexpected Bodies is a workshop for yoga teachers who seek to honor and include a wide range of bodies, backgrounds and experiences in their classrooms. What kinds of bodies do you expect as teachers? Who do you leave out? How do you understand your own bodies as you practice in community? Together you will explore and sit with your assumptions about trans, queer and disabled people as well as the ways that you reflect those ideas in your instructions, adjustments and language. Angel Kyodo Williams says that “consciousness frustrates oppression.” Becoming present to who is in the room and adapting how and what you teach is part of your own practice and holds the possibility of radically “frustrating” the assumptions and habits that constrain you as teachers. You will also examine yoga lineage, text and tradition that either makes room for varied bodies or that explicitly excludes certain experiences. Jacoby Ballard and Lezlie Frye offer alternative approaches to teaching and practice that expect and invite dis/abled, queer and trans communities.