Book Club: Surviving Modern Yoga

Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM PST

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Wednesday, Feb 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM PST

Surviving Modern Yoga: Cult Dynamics, Charismatic Leaders, and What Survivors Can Teach Us. 

Feb 12, March 12, April 16, May 14. Wed evenings 5:30pm-6:30pm PDT

Yoga culture sells well-meaning westerners the full package: physical health, good vibes, and spiritual growth. Here, investigative journalist Matthew Remski explores how cultic dynamics, institutional self-interest, and spiritualized indifference collude to obscure the truth: Harm happens in plain sight.

Book includes practical tools to help readers:
Understand how high-demand groups trap would-be targets, Evaluate their own situational vulnerabilities, Learn to listen for loaded, red-flag language and to Cultivate their literacy of cult tactics.

One hour of integration through group discussion :

Feb 12 Chapter 1 Learning to Listen 

March 12 Chapter 2, 2 survivor stories & 3, Developing Discernment 

April 16 Chapter 4, Disorganized Attachment 

May 14 Chapter 5, A long shadow Brightening  & 6,Better practices and safer spaces

Keri Sawyer E-RYT 500, YACEP, TCTSY Licensed Trainer

Keri Sawyer, owner of Openview Yoga, has over a decade of experience facilitating movement and breath practices, embodiment, and trauma informed practices. She is a seasoned speaker and facilitator who has trained thousands of people as an experienced 500 hour yoga teacher and licensed Trainer with the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Boston. Keri provides Trauma Sensitive yoga to trauma survivors of all ages, facilitates trainings for yoga teachers and healthcare workers, and provides research-based information and trauma-informed treatment practices to the therapeutic world. She oversees the implementation of of trauma informed practices into therapeutic models in clinical and residential treatment programs across the country along with agency trainings and regular consultation for mental health clinicians, therapists, nurses, massage therapists, yoga teachers and more. Her passion is to provide an opportunity for survivors of trauma to have an authentic experience with a safe and predictable felt sense of their body along with spreading awareness of trauma-informed practices.

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