Yoga and the Work That Reconnects Retreat

Join Senior Yoga Teacher Barrie Risman and Work That Reconnects facilitator Lydia Violet Harutoonian for a 1-day Retreat
About this Event

Rise up, Rooted: Yoga and Work That Reconnects 1-day Retreat (In-person)

Sunday, January 26 11am – 5pm

Join Senior Yoga Teacher Barrie Risman and Work That Reconnects facilitator Lydia Violet Harutoonian for an immersive experience combining the Work that Reconnects with postural practice, breathwork, and heart-centered meditation.

The Work that Reconnects is Joanna Macy’s experiential group work that for over 50 years has helped thousands find clarity of vision and emotional sanctuary while living through this precious and precarious moment on our planet.

The practices of yoga replenish our vitality and profoundly enrich our experience of the Work that Reconnects. By turning our awareness inward and bringing us into harmony with the intelligence at the heart of life, yoga nurtures within us the most critical spiritual evolution of our time: the shift toward collective consciousness.

Together, the synergy of yoga and the Work that Reconnects expands our awareness beyond the limited narrative of our individual selves, providing a powerful framework for integrating our path of personal growth with our motivation to contribute to a life-sustaining, just society.

Lydia will also accessibly integrate community singing in her facilitation. Music can be an excellent way to integrate your internal and relational experiences. For many millennia, music, and specifically music made together in community, has been a crucial way we bolster ourselves in hard times.

Come learn and experience tools for metabolizing your grief, anger, overwhelm, and fear into compassionate connection with our communities and our world, nourish your compass for the times ahead, and strengthen your capacity to take part in the healing of our world.

Barrie Risman, E-RYT 500, is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, public speaker, and the author of Evolving Your Yoga: Ten Principles for Enlightened Practice. Widely known as a teacher's teacher, she shares yoga around the globe through classes, workshops, retreats, and trainings, both online and in person. With 30 years of experience practicing Iyengar Yoga and ten years as an Anusara Yoga teacher and teacher-trainer, Barrie has been teaching since 1999. She has studied extensively the yoga philosophies of Classical Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, and the Nondual Tantric tradition of Kashmir Shaivism. Barrie’s unique teaching style weaves together the refined, technical precision of alignment-based postural practice with an ever-present awareness of the wisdom teachings of yoga distilled from her decades of practice.

Lydia Violet Harutoonian is always joyously committed to sharing the Work That Reconnects with others, conjuring integrity and deep emotional resources for our time. Lydia founded the School for the Great Turning, an online and in-person education organization that is dedicated to continuing the legacy of deep ecology elder and wisdom keeper Joanna Macy. After fifteen years of sustained study, mentorship, and co-facilitation of WTR workshops with Macy, as well as immersion in anti-oppression education and adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy, Lydia continues to facilitate workshops and help empower new facilitators. She is an Iranian-Armenian American dedicated to ancestral healing, reconciliation, and community liberation.