Interrogating Yoga: 50hr online YTT
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Live course begins Feb 12
50 hours of advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Bess Prescott + Roshni Lakhani
The course will be available to purchase online for 2 years; you will have access for 1 year to learn at your own pace
Critical yoga history and debrahminising the practice
Live calls from February – March 2025
This course is focused on understanding critical yoga history and philosophy and applying that knowledge to teaching yoga. You’ll receive:
10 hours of lectures with Bess Prescott stepping through critical yoga history
5 hours of lectures with Roshni Lakhani.
weekly practices for a debrahminised practice (including āsana and meditation)
10 live calls with Bess and Roshni throughout the five weeks of the live course.
Yoga Alliance certification for 50 CE hours of Advanced Teacher Training
Weekly topics with Roshni Lakhani
Week 1: the emergence of brahminical patriarchy: sanskrit, caste and migration
Week 2: entrenchment of brahminical patriarchy: caste and gender in sanskrit textual sources
Week 3: traditions beyond brahminical patriarchy: śramanic paths and the bhakti movement
Week 4: centring Dalit and Adivasi voices: activism, advocacy and the fight for caste abolition
Week 5: our praxis: debrahminising yoga: hindu nationalism, colonialism and debrahminisation