A Restorative Practice for Black Folks Who Decided that High-Effort Coping and High Stepping Were No Longer Enuf
Feb 25, 2023 5:00 p.m EST & 10:00 pm GMT|Senegal (Join Here)
We are celebrating Blackness and signifying SOUL with this offering at dusk as the sun sets on the East Coast of the US with the hope that you will come to practice with the busyness of the day and the week behind you. At the end of February, when there “should” still be a chill in the air and you can surrender to the natural rhythms of the season when we “should” be more prone to rest and hibernation. To find some peace of mind with the support of yoga, community and a bit of self-reflection. And, some SOUL.
Signifying on the name and theme of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976), which was her first work and most acclaimed theater piece consisting of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, and Kendrick Lamar’s most recent album, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers, which Juan M. Floyd-Thomas call(s) Lamar’s “soul” album in “The Divided Soul of Kendrick Lamar” (Esquire 16 May 2022), the session serves as a reminder that high-effort coping and high steppin’ have not and will not serve us.
The session will include restorative yoga and journaling. Please feel free to invite friends and family to the practice. If you have restorative yoga equipment please bring it. If not, a large towel or exercise mat along with pillows and blankets will work. No yoga experience is necessary.
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