Books + Yoga

A book club featuring authors and artists of color.

Reading is how we educate ourselves beyond our own worlds. Yoga is a tool to learn more about one’s self. Books + Yoga combines the two to promote a healed self and empowered community.
We believe finances should never be a barrier to self-work, therefore each session will be offered with sliding scale pricing and an option to borrow books.

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Join Us!

We will be discussing Ejeris Dixon + Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's "Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement". Sunday, October 11th at 11:30a EST. Tickets can be purchased HERE. 

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Book List

Pleasure ActivismTheir Eyes Were Watching God

 

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Media

 

7 Politically Minded Book Clubs To Inspire Your Own Reading Group

Excerpt from article:

"Their goal is to read writers of color, deepen their understanding (or bridge a lack of understanding) on topics of race, gender, sexuality, and oppression, and pair their reading with a practice, like yoga, to help participants process and embody the knowledge learned."

 

 

WXXI’s Need to Know with Hélène Biandudi Hofer

Can combining literature and yoga promote a healed self and an empowered community? Two Rochester women say it’s possible and they explain how they’re doing it.