Welcome and Belonging Best Practices Workbook Launch with the IYNAUS Yoga Equity Committee

Please join the IYNAUS Yoga Equity Committee for an event to launch our Welcome and Belonging Best Practices Workbook. During this virtual event, we will introduce the workbook and review some workbook questions and practices.

Equity and inclusion work is multilayered and can often feel overwhelming. It can be hard to know what to do when separation and difference seem hard-wired into our lives. Yoga teaches us to look within to examine our tendencies, particularly the tendencies that reinforce the idea of a separate self, identified with transient and external characteristics.

A common question from members interested in making a difference is “How can I help?” The Yoga Equity Committee created a guide and resource workbook to help members start their journey to make the Iyengar Yoga community open and welcoming to all.

The Yoga Equity Committee hopes this guide and workbook will help those who use them find a path of discovery and growth. The workbook invites the user to examine their beliefs, opinions, and perspectives and how those beliefs affect their actions and behavior toward others. Examining our beliefs may reveal how our collective tendencies thwart our best intentions to build an inclusive community.