Weekly Newsletter - 6.15.21
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Today it begins (in all of California) - San Francisco is reopen! Mask wearing is being considered optional or even dropped in some settings, but still required on public transit and other places. Details in the SF Chronicle and NY Times. Some places will require it, some won't and it's helpful to practice honoring each others' choices rather than push your opinion as universal law. We are easing back into something that was a traumatic shift in everyday living, and everyone will have their own adjustment time since we are sensitive beings whether we act like it or not. All the more reason to maintain your practices to keep your nervous systems balanced and the mind as calm and focused as possible.
Mukunda Studio is starting to prepare for a reopening but no date is set. All classes will remain on zoom and eventually, will be offered as a hybrid option to attend a live streaming class on zoom or in limited capacity at the studio. Details in the coming weeks.
This is definitely a time to celebrate with the summer coming and the Bay Area COVID cases being low. Take a moment, breathe into that, fully expanding the lungs and enjoy a sigh of relief! Then, consider that many are still struggling and being heavily affected by this pandemic, and for that matter, the ongoing struggles across the globe of hunger, racism, territorial occupation, political turmoil and more. Do just enough to take care of yourself, then consider doing what you can to help a friend, a neighbor, a community and beyond. Thank you for caring and being a part of this movement. At Mukunda Studio, we aim to empower the movers of human kindness!
Let's stay connected,
Marc
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Happy Pride Month
Black Lives Matter Month
Professional Wellness Month
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5th Annual Birthday Fundraiser
for Larkin Street Youth Services
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Yoga Class at LSYS - Dec 2018
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Marc's Invitation to Celebrate and Donate! Fundraising goal: $5100!
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This will be the 5th anniversary of Marc's birthday fundraiser for Larkin Street Youth Services. We are especially grateful LSYS helped keep many youth experiencing homelessness, safe during the ongoing pandemic.
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Celebrate Pride by supporting LGBTQ+ youth
Nearly half of young people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco identify as LGBTQ+. Your donation makes it possible for LGBTQ+ youth to Dream BIG! Use the link below to double your impact during the month of June. Corporate sponsors will match your donation. Please check the box: "Dedicate my donation in honor of someone." You only need to fill in "Mukunda Marc Morozumi" so that the funds can be tabulated towards the fundraising goal.
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SAVE THE DATE: Golden Gate Park gathering on Saturday, July 10th to celebrate Marc's 51st Birthday, 5th annual fundraiser event. Time: Likely from 2-4pm PDT. Stay tuned for details...
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Meet Saeeda Hafiz - Author of The Healing
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Satsang: An African-American Yogini’s Journey
Sat. June 19 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT
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Join Saeeda Hafiz, author of “The Healing: One Woman’s Journey from Poverty to Inner Riches” for a book talk discussing self-discovery, racism, and breaking the cycle of poverty through radical self-care.
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Saeeda will also be joining our BIPOC TT group next week to share about mind/body nutrition and the Yogic Diet. Her book, The Healing, has been inspirational and she signed and personalized books as gifts to our students. Check out here kindle or paperback book HERE.
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BIPOC Yoga TT - First Guest Speakers
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WEEK 3 - SF Integral Yoga's BIPOC Yoga Teacher Training
Our first series of speakers from last week moved our training into high gear! Lakshmi Nair of Satya Yoga Cooperative in Denver joined to share a brief and less known history of yoga and the cultural appropriation of yoga. Then she returned for a dynamic panel with Renda Dabit and Adolfo Velasquez to discuss why has a BIPOC TT even been created and the systemic pattern of abuse of power and settler occupation that is continuous. Renda and Adolfo spoke very directly to one of the most currently recognized abuses which is happening in Israel-Palestine. This is a conversation that helps us recognize the most powerful tool, our own mind, and how it can be used for transformation or annihilation, for love or hate, for freedom or endless war.
"No one is free, until we are all free." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Renda Dabit is Palestinian, born and raised in SF Bay Area. Ms. Dabit is a business owner, community leader and a passionate activist in the fight for social and racial justice.
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Lakshmi Nair of Satya Yoga Cooperative in Denver, CO. Satya Yoga Cooperative’s vision: to be a healing force by and for POC, using yoga as a tool for both personal liberation and social transformation.
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Adolfo Velasquez is first generation, born and raised in San Francisco to parents who emigrated from Nicaragua in the 1950's.He recently retired from City College of San Francisco (CCSF).
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Though studios are moving back into in person teaching soon, we've learned that online learning creates opportunities we would have otherwise missed. We're going strong with our group of teachers in training who have joined from all over the U.S. and 4 who are overseas.
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1250 Folsom Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415-802-9303
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