Anticolonial Philosophy Book Group

with Willow Hagge

Starting mid-June

Exact dates, time, and location (zoom or in person) to be determined based on participant interest and availability

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras define a unique and marvelous moral and ethical philosophy along with offering many other beautiful concepts. Dr. Shyam Ranganthan, a Canadian Philosophy Professor at York University, has done remarkable work to read the Yoga Sutras as a Philosopher. He shows how the Yoga Sutras lay out a path for how to be a person who thrives and is self-governing, while making space for others to do the same.

Dr. Ranganthan wrote a great book for practitioners of postural yoga to explore the sutras through this lens.  It is titled Yoga Anticolonial Philosophy.  We are excited to create a book group to read and discuss his work.

As participants in the book group, we will engage with his text through a variety of activities, discussions, and reflections. This group will also focus on identifying and disrupting patterns of white-supremacy, colonization, racism, and trans/queer phobia as they arise. The experiences and voices of marginalized folks will be centered, because ahimsa, which can be translated as disrupting systemic injustice, is the first part of the first limb of yoga and is central to this work.

Learn more about our featured book here: https://yogaphilosophy.com/product/yoga-anticolonial-philosophy/

Who is this book group for? This group is for those who have spent time with the Yoga Sutras, are actively practicing Yoga, and who are willing to engage with a dense (but very rewarding!) text. This group is not appropriate for people studying the Yoga Sutras for the first time.

This event is being organized by Willow as part of a service-learning project from Sadhana Studies.

Tuition:

Free

Participants encouraged to make a donation to the yoga blessings fund

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ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB LEADER

Willow Hagge (they/them) has been practicing Iyengar Yoga since 2004 and is currently apprenticing to become an Iyengar Yoga teacher. They have completed the Sadhana Studies program twice, and have a 100 hour Yoga Philosophy certification with Dr. Ranganathan.

Willow is also a visual arts teacher, sewist, parent, trans person, and artist.