About this Event
Healing ourselves is not a performance or ideal destination, but a journey inward to slow down so that we may live in closer harmony with our desires and our human right to receive care amidst adversity in our lives.
The volatile rhetoric and actions of state sanctioned white supremacy deeply impact our psyche, sense of safety and wellbeing. This practice is an intervention to the idea that LGBTQIA+ people should continue to live in the margins of violence, inequity, inequality and political warfare. Our collective truth: We deserve care and space to breathe. This is an opportunity to imprint that somatic reminder into your being that YOU deserve care.
In this one of a kind practice Serita will offer a short dharma talk on protection practices and how to implement them into worldly life, followed by a yoga and ayurvedic practice. This is not your average yoga session. This is less about what your body can or cannot do and more about building awareness, discernment and space to breathe. All are welcome to stay after practice for a 45 minute social hour to connect, build and be in relationship with beloveds in our Los Angeles community.
Price: This practice is Free for TGNC Black people, brown, two spirit and indigenous folks! Especially aforementioned folks coming from low or no income.
Everyone else: Donation! If you consider yourself a financially stable accomplice to liberation for all, consider making a $25-$40 donation. Can’t make it, but still want to donate?
Venmo: @serita-colette CashApp: $Seritayoga
What to expect:
1. Masks are mandatory and you must be vaccinated. We must care for one another :)
2. Wear comfortable clothing, bring a yoga mat, closed water bottle
3. Turn your phone off or place on silent unless it’s an emergency
4. Let go of body attainment as much as possible and come as you are
5. We are practicing on Tongva land at
Pieter Performance Space (a beautiful shared space with our friends at Gender Justice LA)
2701 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90031, Elevator is accessed through the front door and free parking is located in the back
Policy:
1. Anti-Blackness, transphobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, ableism or any other harm will not be tolerated. Pieter Community Agreement: https://www.pieterpasd.com/community-agreement
2. Tickets are non-refundable. If you can't make it please notify at [email protected] two hours prior to event so we can move folks from the waitlist to an open spot. This will sell out. Sign up today!
About Serita:
Serita Colette is a nationally recognized queer, gender expansive, Malayali-American healer and educator on occupied gabrielino-tongva land. Their work intersects Ayurveda, Yoga, rest and liberation, gender-race-class-sexuality, disability justice, mutual aid, and the arts. Serita’s teachings are an inner call to action, shifting from body attainment to dharma, understanding emotions and using our power skilfully so that we may all be free. In the last four years of their 8 + years teaching Serita has been focusing on Rest & Liberation Retreats for trans and queer people, Black and indigenous people, and people of color. Their work has been recognized by NEA, Pride Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, National Young Farmers Coalition, Castanea and more. When they’re not teaching and consulting, they create meditation music, voice over and performance art in L.A. www.seritayoga.com @seritacolette
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Serita Colette wearing their subversive sirens gear preparing to compete in the 2019 Gay Games in NYC for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion
Pieter Performance Space
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2701 N Broadway, 2701 North Broadway, Los Angeles, United States
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