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

Reading Shared in Class

From Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

"And what happens if we just let go. Like dolphins who beach themselves on the shore to eat, and trust the tide to bring them back into the water. Or who time their birth cycles to seasonal floods. Or migrate across the world following warm currents on a menopausal planet. What would it take to tune into our environment enough to be in flow with the earth instead of in struggle against it?"


Course curriculum

    1. Y1 Tara 4.12.26

About this course

  • $5.00
  • 1 lesson
  • 1.5 hours 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.