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

Justice: each person takes accountability for their unique privileges with responsibility.

Equity: sliding-scale pricing is available for our QTBIPOC+ community 24/7, 365, not just one month of the year.

Diversity: we approach care without policing and pathologizing our own and other people’s experiences.

Inclusion: we celebrate and uplift neurodivergence and autistic joy with intention by recognizing that suffering is not the only option.

I take a trauma-informed approach to my teaching and guidance, and offer my best efforts to create a brave and supportive space for all practitioners.

This includes, but is not limited to, using gender-neutral language, being mindful of touch, and offering guidance that honors each person’s boundaries and comfort level.

Business practices, consultations, and classes are executed within a decolonization framework.

Through practice, we create space to confront harm, resolve conflict, and establish boundaries that honor and protect marginalized identities.

Yoga is an ancient, spiritual practice that originates in India and the broader South Asian region, with roots flowing from the spiritual and cultural waters of the Indus and Sarasvati river civilizations.

This was long before borders, colonial violence, and cultural disconnection disrupted this lineage. Yoga emerges from the embodied wisdom and lived experiences of Black and Brown people who cultivated the practices for liberation, healing, and spiritual connection.

As a descendant of the Indigenous people of Bogota, Colombia, I honor my own Indigenous heritage and bloodline and acknowledge the interconnected resistance, resilience, and ritual that ties ancestral traditions across the Global South.

I offer deep reverence to Turtle Island and the territories I now reside on: the ancestral lands of the Ohlone, Tamian, Ramatush, & Awaswas indigenous stewards.

I honor these and all Indigenous stewards of the land, past, present, and emerging.