Take a seat of power in your own practice! ➖ Join @diannebondyyoga for an immersive weekend of self-expression, empowerment, challenge and conversation ➖ The Art & Science of Yoga for All Friday 7th September | 2-5pm ➖ The Path to Empowerment Saturday 8th September | 1:30-4:30pm ➖ Bridging the Divide Saturday 8th September | 7-8:30pm ➖ The Body Politic: Yoga, Body Image & You Sunday 9th September | 1:30-4:30pm ➖ We asked Dianne her thoughts on modern day yoga... -How do you think yoga empowers people, especially women? Yoga is the science of getting to know yourself and connecting to something bigger than just yourself. We learn that we are part of a larger more powerful energy. I think knowing this empowers people. Women as a whole have been taught to be quiet, sit down, play nice, be pretty, be smaller, go along and get along. Who does that serve? Not women. Yoga teaches us about our power, to take space, to connect and to use our voices through the philosophy meditation. Asana teaches us to respect and coexist in our bodies; it is those two elements that make us more powerful. ➖ -Do you think there is a fair representation of all women in yoga? No, in February I dedicated my Instagram Page to Teachers of Colour primarily Black Teachers and Black Women who are often underrepresented in mainstream yoga culture. The mainstream yoga culture has had a limited narrative of what a yoga body looks like. Primarily it has been slender, young, able-bodied, conventionally attractive by European standards and white. The push towards the inclusion of other ethnicities in the mainstream yoga culture is only a recent phenomenon. ➖ -How have you grown through your practice? I have learned through my practice to stand in power; that my voice my matters and that I have the power to inspire and connect. My yoga practices grow every day through my continued connection to supreme consciousness and self-awareness. ➖

Take a seat of power in your own practice! ➖ Join @diannebondyyoga for an immersive weekend of self-expression, empowerment, challenge and conversation ➖ The Art & Science of Yoga for All Friday 7th September | 2-5pm ➖ The Path to Empowerment Saturday 8th September | 1:30-4:30pm ➖ Bridging the Divide Saturday 8th September | 7-8:30pm ➖ The Body Politic: Yoga, Body Image & You Sunday 9th September | 1:30-4:30pm ➖ We asked Dianne her thoughts on modern day yoga... -How do you think yoga empowers people, especially women? Yoga is the science of getting to know yourself and connecting to something bigger than just yourself. We learn that we are part of a larger more powerful energy. I think knowing this empowers people. Women as a whole have been taught to be quiet, sit down, play nice, be pretty, be smaller, go along and get along. Who does that serve? Not women. Yoga teaches us about our power, to take space, to connect and to use our voices through the philosophy meditation. Asana teaches us to respect and coexist in our bodies; it is those two elements that make us more powerful. ➖ -Do you think there is a fair representation of all women in yoga? No, in February I dedicated my Instagram Page to Teachers of Colour primarily Black Teachers and Black Women who are often underrepresented in mainstream yoga culture. The mainstream yoga culture has had a limited narrative of what a yoga body looks like. Primarily it has been slender, young, able-bodied, conventionally attractive by European standards and white. The push towards the inclusion of other ethnicities in the mainstream yoga culture is only a recent phenomenon. ➖ -How have you grown through your practice? I have learned through my practice to stand in power; that my voice my matters and that I have the power to inspire and connect. My yoga practices grow every day through my continued connection to supreme consciousness and self-awareness. ➖

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