Yoga for Social Justice & Liberation
with Raj Escondo (sub for Satya de la Paz)

A generous and heartfelt invitation to all those weaving personal healing, collective liberation, and community work! Join us in a new accessible, trauma-informed yoga and meditation where we practice community building, freeing our hearts, and embodying equity and inclusion. Moving from the brain to the heart, body, and energy space, this is an intentional space for your own healing and integration into life. You can expect a politicized grounding, dharma, and discussion for this movement community deepening into the spiritual practices of yoga and building relationships that transcend off the yoga mat. This is a space that centers BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S, and immigrants and we welcome everyone into our evolving community. 

Raj Escondo (pronouns: she/they) is a Filipinx and South-Asian/Indian personal development facilitator and yoga instructor. She infuses a sense of groundedness, reflection, and connection with her background as a yoga teacher and in her professional work within leadership development, social justice, and community partnerships. Born in the Philippines, rooted in Chicago, and transplanted to the Bay, Raj supports folks in finding a compassionate and cozy home within themselves to move towards interconnection with others, the land, and ancestors. Her movement practice strengthens one's interoception skills supporting folks with histories of trauma, overwork, and stress to decompress and look within.

Satya de la Paz (she/her) Offers 14 years of experience teaching yoga encouraging students to fall in love with their bodies and their practice. Deeply inspired by her years as an educator in West Oakland, she infuses dynamic alignment, chanting, storytelling, and community-building into her classes.

Satya offers Yoga as a means of collective and personal liberation and decolonization: accessing our innate healing capacity through therapeutics and compassion, meeting media-driven body shame through mindfulness and affirmation, freeing the heart of resentment and blame, and healing the mind of ableist and hierarchical ways of moving and acting. Multiple expressions of poses are offered as students are encouraged to listen to their own body wisdom and access needs. Honoring the traditions of Hatha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism, she empowers multiracial, multi-gender, and multigenerational groups to awaken their true nature of awareness and bliss.