Equity Statement
My professional (and personal) ethic is rooted in anti-oppressive and decolonial praxis. The work I do as a counselor, teacher, and facilitator is done through a social-justice and anti-oppression lens. My social location consists of both privileged and oppressed identities and I hold this in my awareness as I learn, share, grow, and evolve. I am a white person practicing and sharing the practices of yoga and ayurveda, originally created and codified by thousands among long standing traditions in India and Africa. There is a great deal of cultural appropriation and harm being done in the yoga space today. I am committed to being a steward of these traditions and vow to do justice by these wisdom streams, sharing with reverence, authenticity, and sincerity.
LAND AKNOWLEDGEMENT
I currently live on, practice on, and work on the ancestral lands of the Ioway, Sauk, and Meskwaki people. This land was stolen, colonized, and ripped away from its ancestral stewards. I honor the people still on this land, their ancestors, and the ancestral spirits that continue to watch over.
SPIRITUAL LINEAGE AKNOWLEDGEMENT
The practice of yoga does not come from my direct ethnic heritage or ancestral lineage. I honor the people and communities that have created and codified the practice of yoga over numerous centuries from the Indus Valley region, in modern day India. I have been honored to have benefitted from this long line of wisdom and seek to uplift where these teachings come from. In so doing, I acknowledge that I am sharing a tradition that I did not pioneer or design myself, but am nevertheless in love with. I seek to do right by Sanatana Dharma.
I have been trained in the Sri Vidya lineage of the Himalayas. I honor the holders of my lineage, my teachers and their teachers and the living body of wisdom we all continue to live and share with the world through this living tradition.