Transform your yoga practice into a force for creating social change
with this concise, eloquent manual of social justice tools and
skills.
Skill in Action asks you to explore the deeply transformational
practice of yoga as a way to become an agent of social change and work
toward a just world. Through yoga practices and philosophy, this book
explores liberation for ourselves and others, while asking us to engage
in our own agency--whether that manifests as activism, volunteer work,
or changing our relationships with others and ourselves. To provide a
strong foundation to begin this work, Michelle Cassandra Johnson clearly
defines power and privilege, oppression, liberation, and suffering, and
invites you to make changes in your life that promote equality and
freedom for all. This revised and expanded edition offers journaling
practices and prompts in each chapter; includes more material on how
power and privilege inform the yoga industry; explains how to integrate
justice into teaching the eight limbs of yoga; and offers ways to
support people as they move through their resistance and discomfort in
the face of injustice. This edition also offers a fuller look at how the
yamas and niyamas--the ethical precepts of yoga--can be studied in order
to create a more just world, and it offers more support for yoga
teachers seeking to radicalize their yoga.
