TODAY'S SPEAKERS

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Featured Speaker: Priya Deepika Mohan

Where We go From Here: Reclaiming Our Traditions

PRIYA DEEPIKA is an attorney turned sound-healer, educator and trainer. For over 20 years Priya's career in social justice has developed along side her spiritual path as a Yogi and artist. Priya draws indigenous wisdom & practice from her South Indian lineage as well as her formal education and training. For the last 11 years Priya's journey of the Voice has been central to her advocacy for social healing. She is trained and certified in Sound Voice and Music Healing from the California Institute for Integral Studies and as a Teacher trainer in Yoga of the Voice by the Vox Mundi Project led by Silivia Nakkach.

Priya's background as a human-rights immigration lawyer and mediator has shaped her approach in helping others to find their true voice and safety for self-expression. Priya integrates sound as medicine and music into wellness education for emotional awareness, empathy, stress relief, trauma-release and revitalizing our capacity for greater human connection and creative inspiration.

Priya holds a BA in Public Policy, a JD, is a licensed attorney in New Jersey and admitted to the 9th Cir Court. Priya is also a certified and trained Mediator, a certified facilitator of Sound Voice and Music Healing and teacher in Yoga of the Voice.

Priya's music is known for its serene invitation qualities and melodic soundscapes exploring mood, tone and color of the human experience. Priya's debut album Hear In My Heart will be available Spring of 2019.

Collect your free gift from Priya here: 5 Keys to Social Change through Self-Healing

Featured Speaker: Patrisse Cullors

Honoring Yoga through Healing Justice

Artist, organizer, educator, and popular public speaker, Patrisse Cullors is a Los Angeles native and Co-Founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and Founder of grassroots Los Angeles based organization Dignity and Power Now.

In 2013, Patrisse co-founded the global movement with the viral twitter hashtag #BlackLivesMatter which has since grown to an international organization with dozens of chapters around the world fighting anti-Black racism. In January 2016 Patrisse Cullors published her memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.” Her memoir became an instant New York Times Bestseller.

Patrisse has been honored with various awards including: The Sydney Peace Prize Award (2017), Black Woman of the Year Award (2015) from The National Congress of Black Women, Civil Rights Leader for the 21st Century Award (2015) from the Los Angeles Times, Community Change Agent Award (2016) from BLACK GIRLS ROCK!, Inc., Women of the Year Award for the Justice Seekers Award (2016) from Glamour, and ESSENCE’ first-ever Woke Award.

Patrisse is currently an 2019 MFA candidate at the University of Southern California.

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The purpose of this summit is to highlight the importance of diversity in Western yoga spaces and explore how we can honor rather than appropriate yoga while inspiring learning, growth, reflection and action. Because of the nature of this summit, we will not be providing any opportunities for solicited endorsement. The opinions expressed in this summit are those of the presenters. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of myself or the Ignite Yoga and Wellness Institute.