Welcome to the Mind-Body Anti-Racism Series

Featuring 6 sessions of Mandela Yoga for the CHA Community, hosted by the CHA DEI Council
Delivered by Kalatauma Rosario (Mandela Yoga Project) and Richa Gawande (CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion).

“Anti-Racism is the practice of actively identifying and opposing racism. The goal of anti-racism is to actively change policies, behaviors, and beliefs that perpetuate racist ideas and actions” (BU Community Service Center).

Welcome. We are offering these sessions to reduce stress, increase awareness of the embodied impacts of racism on all people, increase resilience for the discomfort of anti-racism work, and build community. Mind-body practice helps us on the anti-racism learning journey in at least two ways. It helps us slough off stress, including day-to-day and intergenerational minority stress, and allows us let go of habitual constricted patterns that make it harder for us to be present for new information to get in and harder for us to be open-hearted to ourselves and our fellow human beings. It also prepares us for change. It gives us a way to see how we are on autopilot, to see how we react viscerally when we are challenged, and allows us to come back to baseline, to make new neural connections for how we want to take personal steps to combat oppression.