Props

These are the suggested props for this class. If you don't have these items you may still enjoy the class without them or with household alternatives.

  • Blocks

  • Blanket

  • Bolster (can use couch cushion instead of bolster)

Poem Read in Class

"In a Dangerous Time" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

I think of the bones

of the unsung rib cage,

the way they protect

the heart. How bone,

too, is living, how it constantly

renews and remakes itself.

I think of how ribs engage

with other ribs

to expand, to contract,

and because they do

their solid work,

they allow the heart to float.

This is what I want to do:

to be a rib in this body

of our country,

to make a safe space for love.

There is so much now

that needs protection.

I want to be that flexible,

that committed to what’s vital,

that unwilling to yield.

Course curriculum

    1. Y1/2 Tara 10.5.25

About this course

  • $5.00
  • 1 lesson
  • 1 hour of video content

Tara Sonali Miller

Yoga, for me, is everything. By which I mean it is pure bliss, it is heartbreaking, it is confusing and hard, it’s essential and rooting, it’s connection to lineage and ancestors in a way that is blurry and felt, it is energizing and exhausting in all the realms - mind, body, spirit. I come to yoga, and to my teaching, as a South Asian person, as a person of diaspora, more specifically as a Hindu, Mayalee person, as a mixed person, an Eastern European Jewish person. As able-bodied. As queer, genderfluid. As a survivor. My journey with the practices and teachings of yoga is intimately linked with these identities and experiences. I’m so grateful to my guides & teachers, and especially my ammamma, for always celebrating the importance of this path and my exploration. I approach the practices of yoga with an acknowledgement of their oppressive layers, both those inherent to yoga and the way it has been codified for centuries, and those created through co-optation in service to racial capitalism, genocide, colonialism, and casteism. At the same time, I feel and believe in the liberatory power and potential of yoga. In its capacity to move us deeper towards individual and collective healing, into true interdependence with each other and with the earth. In my personal practice and in my teaching, I strive to center this potential in all its complexities, and to create a trauma-sensitive container that facilitates curiosity, rest, stability, ease, play, connection, and release.