Sunday Yoga for Queers
The journey of my Sunday yoga class began in 2010, shortly after I moved to Berlin. I became the first person to offer Hatha yoga at the former squat turned community health resource center, the HeileHaus. In 2013 I joined the English Yoga Berlin collective. Since then I have offered a variety of classes in our beautiful backyard garden Kreuzberg yoga studio. I taught several restorative yoga labs (6 week courses), Vinyasa yoga, and Queer Yoga Flow. And partnered together with another yoga teacher, Kanchi Wichmann, to offer two classes of yoga for queers on Wednesday mornings. And offered special workshops like this Soundwalk and Flow, which combined my yoga and sound practice.
Community Yoga
In order to build community, and support those with less income in experiencing how yoga benefits the mind and body, I offered sliding-scale yoga classes. I completed an advanced training in Svastha Yogatherapy and was able to support my students in more therapeutic ways.
The time and date of my yoga classes have shifted around. I stuck mostly to Sundays though (sometimes at 4pm or 6pm). And throughout the Covid lockdowns, I continued the classes live online. Since then, I offered hybrid yoga classes (both in-person and live online) to make yoga accessible to those who cannot make it to a studio for whatever reason. The pandemic could’ve shown us how important it is to build and support community. But instead, late capitalist initiatives like Urban Sports Club swooped in to further drive individualism and isolation. A handful of my regular students continued to support the class, trying to keep it going. I am really so very grateful for that! But the struggle continued and it became clear that it was time to move on.
Where can you find my classes now?
I continue to give yoga classes in German on Thursday nights at 7pm with the FLINTA* Sportverein Seitenwechsel e.V. And the Zoom recordings of the last 6-week course I taught at English Yoga Berlin is available for download at a sliding-scale of 30-60€. The course integrates the Chakras with Svastha Yogatherapy. Each week focuses on finding balance and strength in a different part of the body – from the feet to the crown of the head. Contact me if you’d like access to them.
Farewell for now, English Yoga Berlin community!
Hope to see you again somewhere some time soon.
Hugs and Love, Juli
