Join Tan for a 45-minute Asana and Dharma Talk. As a Black, queer, family caregiver with a commitment to collective liberation, they are always in a state of learning/unlearning, re-imagining, and practice. 

About Tan:

As a Black, queer, family caregiver with a commitment to collective liberation, Tan is always in a state of learning/unlearning, re-imagining, and practice.

With a background in Yoga, social justice, and race & equity facilitation, they want to co-create spaces where we can be in deep inquiry together around the work we have to do to as messy human beings on a dying planet.

Tan often dreams of a future where the planet and EVERYONE on it is thriving and working together towards a world that centers care, love, and conscious collaboration.

Anjali Rao, author of Yoga as Embodied Resistance, will lead a Bhakti-focused practice, moving participants from theory to practice. The session will include a discussion and storytelling about the path of Bhakti, movement, and meditation.

About Anjali:

Anjali Rao brings an intersectional and decolonial feminist lens to the study of philosophy and religion integrating storytelling, art and poetry. Deeply influenced by her yoga practice and dance training, her work emphasizes an embodied approach and explores how spirituality, power and politics intersect. She is the author of Yoga As Embodied Resistance: A Feminist Lens on Caste and Gender in Yoga History, and is on the faculty of multiple yoga education programs. She considers herself a first, foremost and forever a student and is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy and Religion (Women's Spirituality)in California Institute of Integral Studies.

Website: https://anjalikamathrao.com/

Kyle will lead a guided talk and meditation weaving the practice of metta, or lovingkindness/goodwill, with restorative justice-- a practice of staying present with ourselves and one another, exploring what soothes and what aches, and our capacity to hold the whole of it. Through quiet reflection and guided meditation, we'll practice extending goodwill in a way that neither controls nor rescues, letting the body explore its definition of right relationship

About Kyle Skovira

Kyle Skovira, LMSW (they/them) is a restorative justice facilitator and psychotherapist who centers relationship as a practice: with self, with one another, and the systems we've inherited. Kyle creates spaces for reflection, dialogue, and storytelling: the slow and recursive practice of tending trust, care and accountability. At its core, their work is a practice of right relationship: to remember, again and again, the beautiful ways we can weave together.

Melissa Shah, C-IAYT, MPH, is a certified yoga therapist, public health leader, and the founder of Find Your Breath—an online sanctuary, virtual practice library, and mentorship platform dedicated to making yoga therapy truly collaborative, accessible, and inclusive. Grounded in the Viniyoga tradition and her lifelong ancestral relationship with Yoga and Ayurveda, Melissa integrates movement, breathing, and traditional sound with modern clinical and public health frameworks. She is also the author of an upcoming book dedicated to mantra as a therapeutic practice, releasing next year.

About Melissa Shah:

Melissa Shah (she/they), founder of Find Your Breath, is a first-gen Indian-American yoga therapist, community builder, and public health advocate. Their work is rooted in a holistic and social justice oriented approach to the healing arts, supporting people of all ages globally through 1:1 yoga therapy and mentorship, therapeutic classes, retreats, and social emotional learning in schools. Holding over 2000 years of study and training in yogic traditions, she is currently writing a book on the therapeutic applications of mantra.