Join Chiraswa & Seana for our second Liberation Reading Group. An opportunity to sit together and connect over ideas of freedom and liberation. This is a fundamental idea in yogic tradition. Indeed, spiritual liberation is the purpose of yoga: the process of moving into a state of freedom - freedom from our past conditioning, freedom from our self-limiting patterns, habits and behaviours, freedom from oppressive thoughts, freedom to unite with, what in yoga is seen as, divine presence.

This Reading Group will be exploring ideas of freedom - but not purely on an individual level. It will explore ideas of collective freedom. This will include learning from brilliant writers and thinkers who have taught us about the ways in which oppressive systems function and interact to prevent human beings from living in freedom. We will read inspiring articles, chapters and books that give us inspiration as to how to build a better world.

We will drink tea, read aloud together, ask questions, share stories and ideas, reflect, dream, meditate and vision together the ways in which we can create both individual and collective liberation. Please bring paper and pens as we may also incorporate drawing and art-making as ways of expressing our feelings and reactions to the discussion. Feel free also to bring knitting or sewing or doodling things to do with your hands. For some sessions we may include music and singing. For this first session, held around Imbolc, the first stirrings of spring, our discussion will be focused on the chapter of 'Love as the Practice of Freedom' by bell hooks, from her book Outlaw Culture.

Upon booking we will send out information regarding the session. 

These sessions are for you if you are interested in learning together, reading together, connecting, and sometimes having uncomfortable discussions about topics such as racism, sexism, capitalism and harm. There may not always be agreement or consensus within the group, but having a baseline of ‘an ethics of love’, we will navigate through these important topics, reading together and opening our minds and our hearts.

Tea and snacks provided.