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I'm super excited about the challenge posed in our #200hrytt with @yogapipeline to design and teach 4 classes to populations who generally do not have access to yoga. I came into the program looking to see if I use this to explore something I didn't have when I started practicing yoga (and still don't feel I have 🤷🏾‍♂️) – a trans* inviting and focused space for asana practice. I let go a while ago of being too concerned with how the silhouettes of my body don't match my gender's traditional phenotype, but that rarely keeps gender from coming into the practice, or ways of talking to come into the practice. You're working with bodies, so there's a lot of conditioning we all have around bodies, their movements, and how they're described. Even in intention setting or grounding, yoga teachers can encourage a left over right or right over left hand depending on sex, or gender, or sun/moon rulership – subtly awkward, and often leaves a little dent in my practice. All this to say, I'm delighted to be doing some classes for trans*, gnc and gnb folx in the next few weeks. If you haven't seen the info but are interested, ping me for deets and I'll send you the info links. #transyogi #transmenofinstagram #transmenofcolor #stlQTPOC #blackyogis #blackyogateachers

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