Queer Yoga — Bangor Pride 2024
Schedule
Sun Jun 23 2024 at 04:15 pm
UTC-04:00Location
16 State Street, Bangor, ME, United States, Maine 04401 | Bangor, ME
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Queer Yoga is a trauma-informed practice that promotes nervous system regulation and provides opportunities to be our whole selves as we match breath and movement. While this describes the regular Spiral Flow Yoga offerings at the Spiral Goddess Collective, in this class we focus on queer ideas and inspirations. We’ll begin with a celebration of queer musical artists as we embrace authenticity, connection, and community through embodied movement. Most of our practice will be slow and restorative, offering tools for grounding, listening to our bodies, and staying present. We will let go of shame, embrace fluidity and limitlessness, and move stuck trauma out of our bodies. This class provides a variety of tools and takeaways amidst the relaxation, restoration, and rejuvenation.As Jacoby Ballard argues in their book, A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation, “Society is constantly telling queer and trans people that we shouldn’t exist, through overt and subversive forms of oppression” (164). This cultural messaging is one source of trauma. “Trauma lives in the body, and through embodiment practices those stories can be unlocked” (179). Further, they argue: “If we are only addressing the source of our trauma through activism, artistic expression, or education, but not healing our bodies, hearts, and minds, then we inevitably recreate the trauma in our lives” (168). Yoga helps us to develop resilience and “connect with our growth, pain, and resilience, and recognize our human capacity to thrive” (169). It also helps us to practice “letting go of shame, of guilt, of shields that we may hold in our bodies, hearts, and minds” (172). Yoga can “prevent us from perpetuating further harm out of our own dysregulation” (165).
This Queer Yoga class builds on Ballard’s foundational ideas while bringing forth a celebration of the femme side of the queer spectrum, embracing critical and intersectional consciousness what Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore describes as “the potential for queer identity” as “the radical potential to choose one’s gender and one’s sexual and social identities, to embrace a radical outsider’s perspective, to create a culture on our terms.”
No yoga experience required! We have everything you need, so just dress comfortably and discover the power of this embodied practice toward individual and collective transformation.
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Where is it happening?
16 State Street, Bangor, ME, United States, Maine 04401Event Location & Nearby Stays:
