Community Guidelines

With gratitude to Susanna Barkataki, whose Yoga Teacher Training informed and inspired these JEDI commitments.

This community is committed to cultivating brave, supportive, and justice-centered practitioners. The guidelines outlined below reflect the values that guide our practice, interactions, and teachings:

1. Justice

  • Take accountability for your privileges and actions within your communities.

  • Honor the shared responsibility of creating a respectful and equitable space for all people.

2. Equity

  • Those that offer healing services strive to make sliding-scale pricing and accessible options available, particularly to support QTBIPOC+ communities.

  • Recognize that different people have different needs, and approach your communities with generosity and care.

3. Diversity

  • Approach engagement, care, and instruction without pathologizing anyone’s experiences.

  • Respect the varied identities, abilities, and life experiences present in your communities.

4. Inclusion

  • Celebrate and uplift neurodivergence, autistic joy, and other diverse ways of being.

  • Practice gender-neutral language and be mindful of touch, consent, and personal boundaries.

5. Trauma-Informed Practice

  • Foster brave and supportive spaces for yourself and all people.

  • Show up with soul, meeting yourself and others where they are, and extend kindness to the imperfection of the process.

6. Decolonization and Ancestral Awareness

  • Center Indigenous voices and teachings without stealing or appropriating.

  • Honor the ancestral traditions of yoga from India and the broader South Asian region without stealing or appropriating.

  • Acknowledge and uplift the cultural wisdom cultivated by Black and Brown voices without stealing or appropriating.

  • Offer deep respect to the Indigenous stewards of Turtle Island and all native lands—past, present, and emerging.

7. Accountability and Conflict Resolution

  • Create space both internally and externally to confront harm, resolve conflict, and establish boundaries that protect marginalized identities.

  • Seek collective discernment and community support when inner and outer conflict manifests—commit to being a lifelong student.

  • Speak up respectfully if harm or exclusion is witnessed.

  • Stay rooted in humility, accountability, and collective growth.

May we surrender to the rhythm of the collective heart’s drumming.