Skill in Action 200hr Immersion
The Skill in Action 75hr Online Continuing Education Program for Yoga Teachers is designed for 200hr and 300hr-trained teachers looking to deepen their spiritual practice and teaching and learn more about the intersection of justice and yoga.
This 75hr continuing education program will offer a comprehensive, inspired approach to transformational social change work. Throughout this training, you will gain knowledge and skills to connect the transformation on the mat to the change that is possible off of the mat. Many people come to their yoga mats to escape the larger cultural context. While there is value in resetting and self-care, we cannot forget our connection to the collective. Skill in Action pushes yoga teachers and practitioners to consider how their transformation on the mat can change how they are in the world. Skill in Action has the capacity to change how we work, live and build community across lines of difference.
Skill in Action Community of Practice
It is important that we develop a consistent practice of transforming ourselves, relationships, institutions, and culture to create a just world. In the eight-week Skill in Action Community of Practice, we will explore and practice what we need to create conditions for our collective liberation. The Skill in Action Community of Practice is a space where we will come together and build community by moving through the practices in the 2nd edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World. These practices include an exploration of where you are from, your origin story, social location, how we are uniquely positioned to make change and create a just world, practices centered around curiosity and how to meet resistance and practice self and collective care. We will practice many limbs of the eight-limb path of yoga through the yamas, niyamas, self-study, pranayama, meditation, movement and more. We will meet weekly for 60-minutes to practice, reflect on our experience, and share with one another. Each session will be recorded and shared with participants and available for two months after the conclusion of the program.
Infusing Justice Into Your Life, Teaching, and Practice – The Center Studio
As yoga teachers or students studying to hold space for others and teach the sacred practice of yoga, we have a responsibility to understand how to bring the larger cultural context into our teaching and practice. Many are wondering how to respond to the collective trauma caused by Covid-19, white supremacy and racism, and all forms of superiority and oppression. Many are wondering how to make space for their grief and liberation amid social isolation and distancing. Dominant culture wants us to continue to disassociate from ourselves and others, divide and conquer, maintain the status quo, and turn away from the heartbreak we may be feeling at this time. While we have questions about how to respond and be in this moment, I believe that we must respond with steadfastness and courageous hearts to the urgent concerns of this time. Spiritual practice invites us to lean into discomfort and truth, move through and with our emotions and grief, better understand the nature and causes of suffering, and transform in service of the collective good. Spiritual practice including meditation and yoga, allow us to work with sensation, toxic thought patterns, grief, cultural conditioning, overwhelm, and anxiety, through mindfulness and thoughtful care.
Skill in Action Community of Practice
It is important that we develop a consistent practice of transforming ourselves, relationships, institutions, and culture to create a just world. In the five-week Skill in Action Community of Practice, we will explore and practice what we need to create conditions for our collective liberation. The Skill in Action Community of Practice is a space where we will come together and build community by moving through the practices in the 2nd edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World. These practices include an exploration of where you are from, your origin story, social location, how we are uniquely positioned to make change and create a just world, practices centered around curiosity and how to meet resistance and practice self and collective care. We will practice many limbs of the eight-limb path of yoga through the yamas, niyamas, self-study, pranayama, meditation, movement and more. We will meet weekly for 60-minutes to practice, reflect on our experience, and share with one another. Each session will be recorded and shared with participants and available for two months after the conclusion of the program.
Harnessing Our Power for the Collective Good with Kristina Reese Yoga
Join Skill in Action Facilitators, Vernita Pearl Fort (she/her) and Candace Martin (she/her), as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others, and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation, and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change. Through the practice of yoga and meditation, we will connect with our inner fire, agni, to gain clarity about our actions and their alignment with our higher purpose, all in-service of our collective humanity. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings. This all-levels yoga workshop will include a dharma talk, meditation, asana, and discussion.
75hr Skill in Action Online Continuing Education for Yoga Teachers
The Skill in Action 75hr Online Continuing Education Program for Yoga Teachers is designed for 200hr and 300hr-trained teachers looking to deepen their spiritual practice and teaching and learn more about the intersection of justice and yoga.
This 75hr continuing education program will offer a comprehensive, inspired approach to transformational social change work. Throughout this training, you will gain knowledge and skills to connect the transformation on the mat to the change that is possible off of the mat. Many people come to their yoga mats to escape the larger cultural context. While there is value in resetting and self-care, we cannot forget our connection to the collective. Skill in Action pushes yoga teachers and practitioners to consider how their transformation on the mat can change how they are in the world. Skill in Action has the capacity to change how we work, live and build community across lines of difference.
Resetting Our Karmic Path Through Skillful Action: A Skill in Action Weekend Workshop
Skill in Action is a body of evolving work designed to explore systems of power and oppression, the intersection of social justice and yoga, external and internalized patterns of oppression, power and privilege, and how we can respond to the current cultural and political challenges through practices of self-study, movement, pranayama, contemplation and collective action.
Skill in Action works at the intersection of social justice and spiritual practice. Spiritual practice invites us to lean into discomfort and the truth we are experiencing at this time. We are wading through war, grief, injustice, and rights and protections being stripped away from groups who are less proximal to social and institutional power. As we lean into the truth of what is happening versus bypassing the truth, we are called to transform ourselves, relationships, institutions, and culture in order to create a just world. By engaging in spiritual practice, truly understanding the causes of suffering, and shifting our conditioned tendencies we can create a different karmic path for ourselves and future generations.
Harnessing Our Power for the Collective Good
Join Skill in Action Facilitators, Raudhah Rahman (dia/she/her) and Lauren Roberts (she/her) as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others, and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation, and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change. Through the practice of yoga and meditation, we will connect with our inner fire, agni, to gain clarity about our actions and their alignment with our higher purpose, all in-service of our collective humanity. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings. This all-levels yoga workshop will include a dharma talk, meditation, asana, and discussion.
Skill in Action - Yoga Outreach
Skill in Action is a body of evolving work designed to explore systems of power and oppression, the intersection of social justice and yoga, external and internalized patterns of oppression, power and privilege, and how we can respond to the current cultural and political challenges through practices of self-study, movement, pranayama, contemplation and collective action.
Skill in Action - Yoga Off East
Join Michelle C. Johnson for a virtual Skill in Action workshop hosted by Yoga Off East. Skill in Action is a workshop designed to explore systems of power and oppression, the intersection of social justice and yoga, external and internalized patterns of oppression, power and privilege, and how we can respond to the current cultural and political challenges through practices of self-study, movement, pranayama, contemplation and collective action. Through these teachings you will learn more about both how to create more inclusive spaces for healing and teaching as well as how to infuse your teachings with content centered on social justice. Throughout our time together we will practice asana (postures), meditation, mindfulness, pranayama (breathing), holding space together and mantra work to sharpen our goals and visions for our work to change the world.
Skill in Action - Yoga Soup
Join Skill in Action Facilitators, Vernita Pearl Fort (she/her) and Candace Martin (she/her) as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change. Through the practice of yoga and meditation we will connect with our inner fire, agni, to gain clarity about our actions and their alignment with our higher purpose all in-service of our collective humanity. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings. This all-levels yoga workshop will include a dharma talk, meditation, asana, and discussion.
Skill in Action - Sangha Studio
As yoga teachers or students studying to hold space for others and teach the sacred practice of yoga, we have a responsibility to understand how to bring the larger cultural context into our teaching and practice. Many are wondering how to respond to the collective trauma caused by Covid-19, white supremacy and racism and all forms of superiority and oppression. Many are wondering how to make space for their grief and liberation amid social isolation and distancing. Dominant culture wants us to continue to disassociate from ourselves and others, divide and conquer, maintain the status quo and turn away from heartbreak we may be feeling at this time. While we have questions about how to respond and be in this moment, we must respond with steadfastness and courageous hearts to the urgent concerns of this time. Spiritual practice invites us to lean into discomfort and truth, move through and with our emotions and grief, better understand the nature and causes of suffering and transform in service of the collective good. Spiritual practice including meditation and yoga, allow us to work with sensation, toxic thought patterns, grief, cultural conditioning, overwhelm, and anxiety through mindfulness and thoughtful care.
Skill in Action with Jamie Hanson Yoga
Join Skill in Action Facilitators, mika-dot.lee (she/her) and Tyler Houghton (they/them), as they host this 3-hr workshop as a part of the Empowered Yoga Teacher Training. This workshop is designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change. Through the practice of yoga and meditation we will connect with our inner fire, agni, to gain clarity about our actions and their alignment with our higher purpose all in-service of our collective humanity. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings. This all-levels yoga workshop will include a dharma talk, meditation, asana, and discussion.
SKILL IN ACTION: HONING OUR SKILLS AND CREATING CONDITIONS FOR JUSTICE - THE BREATHING ROOM
Contemplative practices, such as yoga, mindfulness, self-study, and journaling, are designed for us to engage in over time, again and again. Creating conditions for justice is ongoing work, and our contemplative practices can equip us to continue showing up again and again to create a truly liberatory world. The Skill in Action workshop will explain and explore the intersection of the two: contemplative practice and social justice. This workshop will deepen our awareness of self, others, the causes and nature of suffering, and develop and hone skills to create conditions for justice and liberation.
Skill in Action - The Center Studio
Join Skill in Action Facilitators, Mika Dot Lee and Tyler Houghton, as they host this workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change. Through the practice of yoga and meditation we will connect with our inner fire, agni, to gain clarity about our actions and their alignment with our higher purpose all in-service of our collective humanity. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings. This all-levels yoga workshop will include a dharma talk, meditation, asana, and discussion.
Skill in Action: Radicalizing your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World - JP Yoga Centre
Many are wondering how to respond to the collective trauma caused by Covid-19, white supremacy and racism and all forms of superiority and oppression. Many are wondering how to make space for their grief and liberation amid social isolation and distancing. Dominant culture wants us to continue to disassociate from ourselves and others, divide and conquer, maintain the status quo and turn away from heartbreak we may be feeling at this time.
Skill in Action - K10Yoga
Join Michelle C. Johnson as she hosts this workshop designed to explore our actions and reactions, not only individually but collectively. Through this exploration, we can harness our power so that we may take action and create social change. Through the practice of yoga, pranayama, and meditation we will connect with our inner fire, agni, to gain clarity about our actions and their alignment with our higher purpose all in-service of our collective humanity. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings.
IG LIVE WITH OFF THE MAT INTO THE WORLD
Join Michelle and the folks at Off the Mat Into the World on Instagram Live as they celebrate the release of the 2nd edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World.
SKILL IN ACTION: NEW TOOLS, STRATEGIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND WAYS TO TAKE ACTION
Michelle Cassandra Johnson published Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017. She is excited to share the second edition of Skill in Action, published by Shambhala Publications, which comes out on November 2nd, 2021. Michelle has included new tools, exercises, strategies, and reflections on how we can be skillful as we take action and respond to all that is in the way of our collective liberation in the newest edition of Skill in Action. To celebrate the launch of the new edition, Michelle will be in conversation with her friend and colleague, Kerri Kelly, to share what she has learned since the first edition emerged and the new offerings contained within the newest edition of Skill in Action! Please join them to connect, celebrate, and reflect on how you can truly radicalize your yoga practice to create a just world.
Skill in Action Weekend - Seattle Yoga Arts
Skill in Action is a workshop designed to explore systems of power and oppression, the intersection of social justice and yoga, external and internalized patterns of oppression, power and privilege, and how we can respond to the current cultural and political challenges through practices of self-study, movement, pranayama, contemplation and collective action.
Skill in Action at Conscious Yoga Summit
Join Skill in Action Facilitators, Charlie Redd and Lauren Roberts, as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change. Through the practice of yoga and meditation we will connect with our inner fire, agni, to gain clarity about our actions and their alignment with our higher purpose all in-service of our collective humanity. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings. This all-levels yoga workshop will include a dharma talk, meditation, asana, and discussion.
Skill in Action at Three and a Half Acres
Join Skill in Action Facilitators, Vernita Pearl Fort and Candace Martin, as they host this 75-minute workshop as a part of Three and a Half Acre’s virtual Trauma Yoga Teacher Training designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings. This all-levels yoga workshop will include discussion of assumptions and agreements, shared language, spiritual bypassing, and how to create inclusive and transformative spaces.
Skill in Action - Driftless Yoga Festival
Join Skill in Action Facilitators as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change.
Skill in Action: Responding to Unsettling and Uncertain Times - 8Limbs Yoga
The question of how to respond to the suffering inside and around is one that many are currently facing. The dismantling of systems and the resistance to this dismantling are colliding, creating suffering and opportunity. Many are wondering how to make space for their grief and liberation amid social isolation and distancing. Dominant culture wants us to continue to disassociate from ourselves and others, divide and conquer, maintain the status quo and turn away from the heartbreak we may be feeling at this time.
Skill in Action Weekend - Grinning Yogi
Many are wondering how to respond to the collective trauma caused by Covid-19, white supremacy and racism and all forms of superiority and oppression. Many are wondering how to make space for their grief and liberation amid social isolation and distancing. Dominant culture wants us to continue to disassociate from ourselves and others, divide and conquer, maintain the status quo and turn away from heartbreak we may be feeling at this time.
Skill in Action: Exploring Social Justice & Yoga - JP Centre Yoga
Join Michelle C. Johnson as she hosts this 3-hr workshop designed to explore our actions and reactions, not only individually but collectively. Through this exploration, we can harness our power so that we may take action and create social change.
Skill in Action - K10Yoga
Join Skill in Action Facilitators as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change.
Skill in Action Weekend - YogaOasis
Skill in Action is a workshop designed to explore systems of power and oppression, the intersection of social justice and yoga, external and internalized patterns of oppression, power and privilege, and how we can respond to the current cultural and political challenges through practices of self-study, movement, pranayama, contemplation and collective action.
Skill in Action Workshop - Yoga to Cope
Join Skill in Action Facilitators as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change.
Skill in Action - Julia McCabe Yoga
Join Skill in Action Facilitators as they host this 3-hr workshop designed to deepen your awareness of the various identities you embody, cultural conditioning and its impact on you and others and how systems of power affect our well-being. In this workshop through asana, meditation and discussion you will explore how you can harness your individual power and our collective power to make social change.
Skill in Action: Exploring Yoga & Social Justice - Mindful Yoga
Join Michelle C. Johnson as she hosts this 3-hr workshop designed to explore our actions and reactions, not only individually but collectively. Through this exploration, we can harness our power so that we may take action and create social change. You will leave this workshop with a deeper connection to self, your community and all beings.