You are being asked to hold space in a world on fire.
Without the language, training, and without real support.
Most teacher trainings never prepared you for this.
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The Great Yoga Unlearning is for yoga teachers, healers, and care-holders who want to lead with integrity when things get real.
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You’ll learn how to:
• recognize when the room shifts and respond skillfully
• be yourself without bypassing or shutting down
• speak truth while holding your power
• teach in alignment with yoga’s roots and your values
Meet the Host
Susanna Barkataki
Founder, Ignite Institute (YTT 200 & YTT 300)
Author of Embrace Yoga’s Roots & Ignite Your Yoga
PhD Scholar in Yoga Psychology
Susanna has trained 25,000+ students and is known for integrating yoga philosophy, trauma-aware teaching, and social responsibility into modern yoga leadership
Meet The Guest Speakers
joining from across the field of yoga, ethics, and embodied leadership.
Susanna Barkataki
Yoga in the Age of Structural Harm: If Yoga Is Unity, What Are We Doing?
Tejal Patel
Unpacking Perfectionism, Moral Injury, and Burnout for Yoga Teachers
Marley Rae
Yoga Is Unity: Pleasure, Presence, and Care as Liberation
Harpinder Mann
Yoga, Appropriation, and the Responsibility of Practice
Zabie Yamasaki
Trauma-Informed Yoga Must Be Structural, Not Just Personal
Arielle Estoria
Service vs. Extraction: Who Gets to Feel Safe in Yoga Spaces
Ben Kalra
How to Be Authentic with Yoga in the Age of AI
Hala Khouri
How to Embody Your Ethics, Not Just Talk About Them
Mx Puja Singh
Devotion Without Bypass: Bhakti in Times of Harm
Jana Johnson from The Tree
Inner Stability in Unstable Times
Kino Macgregor
Discomfort vs. Harm and How to Tell the Difference
Linda Lopes
Ritualizing the Sacred in Traumatic Times
Jonelle Lewis
Yoga as Liberation: Reclaiming Joy in Your Body
Shelley Carroll
Responsibilities of Privilege
And You!
Yoga Leader