Featured Speaker: Layla Saad |
Investigating White Supremacy in Yoga and Wellness Spaces
Layla Saad is a writer, speaker, podcast host & racial justice advocate whose work explores the intersections of race, spirituality, feminism & leadership.
Layla is the author of the ground-breaking me and white supremacy workbook (2018), and the host of good ancestor podcast, and the now-retired wild mystic woman podcast.
As a widely read writer, a globally sought speaker, and a popular podcast host, Layla is passionate about creating inspiration, education & activation for personal and collective change in the world.
Collect your free gift from Layla here: Me And White Supremacy Workbook
Featured Speaker: Rachel Brathen |
Responsibility of White People to Make Space for Change
Rachel Brathen is a Swedish native, New York Times best-selling author, serial entrepreneur and international yoga teacher living in Aruba with her husband Dennis and their baby girl Lea Luna. After graduating from school in Stockholm, she traveled to Costa Rica where she found the joy of incorporating yoga into her everyday life. Deepening her yoga practice and beginning teaching, she moved to Central America where she spent years exploring the intricate studies of yoga and spirituality. After moving to Aruba in early 2010, she began teaching yoga full time. Her classes are a dynamic Vinyasa Flow integrating alignment, breathing techniques with basic poses and creative sequencing, but asana is only a small piece of the work in the yoga shala. Rachel incorporates holistic therapeutic tools like sharing, active listening and journaling in every session and there is a deep level of heart healing at the center of every class she teaches.
Rachel is the founder of www.oneOeight.com; an online platform for yoga, meditation, and healing. In 2016, Rachel and her husband opened Island Yoga - the largest yoga studio in the Caribbean, boasting three shalas, a boutique, an organic café and offices for the team.
Giving back to the community has always been at the center of all of Rachel’s initiatives – she runs three non-profit organizations: Sgt Pepper’s Friends; an animal rescue foundation based in Aruba, 109 World; a global mission organization that runs social mission trips worldwide, and Yoga Girl® Foundation, benefitting women and children in need.