Workshop for Ethical Changemakers
Activism can be a deeply meaningful path, but it often comes with exhaustion, grief, and burnout. Many people doing social justice work struggle to stay present and grounded without becoming overwhelmed or emotionally shut down. This workshop series is for activists, organizers, and caregivers who want to sustain their commitment without losing connection to their bodies, values, or communities.
Embodied Resilience for Activists offers a grounded, body-based approach to sustaining justice work. Through accessible yoga, mindfulness, and reflective practices, we explore how to remain centered and compassionate in the midst of injustice. These practices are rooted in the ethical traditions of yoga and Buddhism, and resonate deeply with the Unitarian Universalist commitment to love and justice.
This is not self-care as luxury or escape. It is spiritual infrastructure for collective liberation.
Workshop Sessions
Each session combines movement, meditation, and ethical reflection. The series can be offered in one day, over a weekend, or across several weeks, depending on your group’s needs.
- Calm the Body: Yoga Techniques for Stress Relief
Learn simple yet powerful yoga practices to release tension, calm the nervous system, and restore balance to both body and mind. - Cultivate Clarity: Mindfulness Strategies for Mental Focus
Discover mindfulness techniques to improve focus, enhance mental clarity, and support ethical decision-making for navigating complex and high-stakes situations - Deepen Connection: Build Resilience Through Self-Compassion and Community
Explore how to deepen connection to yourself, your community, and your purpose through practices that nourish compassion and interdependence.
Each session offers a safe, supportive space to deepen your practice, learn new strategies, and leave with practical tools you can integrate immediately into your daily life and work. All practices are trauma-informed, adaptable, and beginner-friendly. No prior experience with yoga or meditation is needed.
What You’ll Gain
Participants will leave with practical tools for navigating stress, building emotional resilience, and embodying their values in the midst of demanding work. This workshop supports:
- Greater physical and emotional awareness
- Clarity in complex or high-stakes situations
- Compassionate engagement with others
- A renewed sense of purpose and grounding
Special Invitation to UUs
If you are a Unitarian Universalist engaged in justice-making through your congregation, in your community, or as part of your personal calling, this workshop is especially for you. These practices are deeply aligned with our shared values: the inherent worth and dignity of every person, the interdependent web of life, and the call to transform systems of oppression.
This is a space to embody those values more fully. To care for yourself as part of the collective. To remember that spiritual practice does not distract from justice work. It sustains it.
Why I Offer This Work
My life has been shaped by a commitment to both spiritual practice and social transformation—from early AIDS activism and founding community rides to teaching mindfulness in prisons and leading organizations that integrate yoga and justice. I hold a PhD in Musicology focused on cultural responses to suffering, and I’m a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher trained in trauma-informed, evidence-based practices. I’ve also lived the realities of burnout, chronic pain, and spiritual fatigue.
This workshop is my offering to those who serve. A space to replenish, reconnect, and recommit.
Cost
This workshop is offered on a sliding scale. I believe resilience practices must be accessible to those doing the essential work of social change.
Ready to Start?
If you or your community would benefit from this work, reach out to schedule a conversation. Together we can create a workshop format that meets your needs and supports your work.