Yoga as a Tool for Social Change Panel
Online Panel Discussion
Friday, Feb. 27 @ 8a PT | 11a ET | 4p GMT
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In a time when yoga is often reduced to personal wellness or stress relief, this online panel invites us to return to yoga’s deeper roots—as a practice of awareness, ethical responsibility, and collective care.
Yoga as a Tool for Social Change brings together Sheena Sood, Tejal Patel, and Hana Masters for a grassroots conversation on how yoga can be practiced in alignment with justice, solidarity, and liberation. Centering South Asian voices and honoring yogic lineage, this panel explores how embodied practice can support movements for Palestinian liberation, refugee justice, and activist sustainability—without extraction, bypassing, or neutrality.
Together, the speakers will reflect on:
Reclaiming yogic philosophy from depoliticized frameworks
Practicing ahimsa as active harm reduction and resistance
Holding rest and resilience as essential to long-term social change
Using yoga to build community, courage, and collective care.
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This panel invites participants to deepen their understanding of yoga as a living, embodied practice rooted in liberation, lineage, and collective care. Together, we will explore how yoga can be practiced in ways that are responsive to the realities of oppression, displacement, burnout, and resistance—without losing its philosophical depth or cultural integrity.
Participants will be invited to:
Reconnect with yoga as a practice of awareness, strength, and ethical action, not just personal wellness.
Explore how yogic principles such as ahimsa, seva, and satya show up in real-world movements for justice and solidarity.
Learn from South Asian–led and solidarity-driven models that center community, rest, resistance, and care.
Reflect on how embodied practices can support sustainable engagement in social change without reproducing harm or extraction.
After this panel, participants will:
Have a clearer understanding of how yoga can be used in service of justice, solidarity, and collective liberation.
Feel more confident naming the ways yoga intersects with culture, politics, and responsibility.
Gain tangible examples of how yoga is already being used in movements for Palestinian liberation, refugee justice, and activist care.
Leave with reflection points they can carry into their own practice, teaching, organizing, or community spaces.
Feel affirmed in holding yoga as both a practice of rest and a practice of resistance.
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