{"id":47635,"date":"2016-03-01T17:51:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T22:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=47635"},"modified":"2020-03-09T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T00:24:12","slug":"womens-empowerment-through-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/de\/journal\/womens-empowerment-through-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Empowerment Through Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

SHAKTIBARRE is an innovative sliding scale yoga studio and women’s empowerment collective based in New York. Help them harness the power of the yoga industry to work for gender equality by supporting their IndieGoGo campaign<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Six years ago, when I was scraping\u00a0my way through graduate school, I found a free yoga class that I desperately needed. I\u00a0learned how to stretch, breathe, strengthen, and how to let go; yoga gave me an education better than Harvard. I fell to my mat with a list of traumas, most of which I didn\u2019t even know the words for, let alone how to cultivate self-awareness around them. The list was long: Divorced parents, gum disease, insomnia, adrenal fatigue, exercise addiction, abusive romances, binge eating disorder, a handful of my English students lost to gang violence<\/a>, amenorrhea, and a severely dislocated shoulder\u2014yet from my mat I saw\u00a0them all as opportunities. It was during those private moments,\u00a0when I exchanged\u00a0a few work-study hours for vinyasa classes, that changing my life became both accessible and sustainable.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of chatter in the yoga world about how modern practice emphasizes the physical component, resulting in the loss of yoga’s purpose to unite ourselves with our highest nature. The Yoga Service Council, CNNMoney, The Huffington Post, Yoga Dork, The Atlantic, Elephant Journal<\/em>, and The New York Times<\/em> have all pointed this out. Other publications have noted that it’s also an activity that is overwhelmingly white and wealthy. The majority of practitioners are female, and\u00a076.4 percent\u00a0of them are white. A majority of these women make over $75,000 annually.<\/p>\n

And yet the purpose of yoga, at its root, is a mission that can be undertaken by all people.\u00a0Uniting ourselves with our highest nature is just an\u00a0eloquent way of saying \u201cto educate.\u201d The word education<\/em> comes from the root e<\/em> from ex<\/em> (out) and duco <\/em>(I lead). It means a leading out. As Muriel Spark writes, „To me, education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Educating women and girls equals closing gender gaps<\/a>, which leads to an\u00a0increase in life expectancy, the fostering of academic achievement, broader\u00a0access to economic opportunity, and equality in household and societal voice.\u00a0With so many women practicing yoga, or involved in the yoga lifestyle, it seems intuitive that\u00a0yoga should be a part of an accessible education.\u00a0\u00a0By making classes affordable and creating more than just headstand workshops as a way to educate our women, we impact the local\u2014and eventually global\u2014community.<\/p>\n

The question then is how to make studios inexpensive and pedagogic without compromising success. From a business perspective, rent is pricey so your classes cannot be the\u00a0only revenue stream. My own yoga teacher (and Wanderlust presenter), Elena Brower<\/a>, takes yoga and education up several gorgeous, powerful notches both live and online with Art of Attention<\/a><\/em>. I, too, am working on innovating the classic yoga studio model with SHAKTIBARRE\u2014the yoga-caf\u00e9-empowerment collective with sliding-scale prices.<\/p>\n

The yoga industry\u2019s possibility\u2014and responsibility\u2014to further women\u2019s development may\u00a0just be another well-intentioned idea that you forget after reading this article. But think of how many women have initiated profound changes when yoga was made available.\u00a0I recall Kathy, a high school student of mine back in Miami who, after learning about Eastern texts and the potential for inner healing, wrote her very first poem as a confession that she was raped at age 4. By her own father. Kathy\u2019s painfully tragic story is also one of hope, because she represents the 39 percent\u00a0of yogis that practice at home because studios are too socioeconomically and culturally exclusive.<\/p>\n

What if Kathy had started sooner? What if her sister, mother, and now two children could come to the same yoga studio you attend? There is still controversy over who invented yoga but this much is true\u2014the yoga industry is 82.2 percent female. „Women have been gurus, healers, yoginis, and Goddesses since the beginning of time,\u201d says Ramesh Bjonnes.<\/p>\n

As such,\u00a0we have much more potential together as an empowered sisterhood than the exclusive consumer classism<\/a> of yoga today. Let’s start changing the world.<\/p>\n

Do your part by donating to SHAKTIBARRE’s current Indiegogo campaign<\/a>, or\u00a0get in touch with Corinne<\/a> for more information!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

\"corinne\"Corinne Wainer is an educational psychologist and registered yoga teacher in New York. As director of YoGirls Program<\/a> and CEO of SHAKTIBARRE<\/a> Women’s Collective, Corinne works actively and purposefully to empower women’s wellness education.<\/em><\/p>\n

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