This ancient South Asian practice is deep, rich, complex, expansive, and lifelong.

We acknowledge, study, and practice yoga that arose from South Asian indigenous people seeking collective liberation often dwelling at the outskirts. Our practice today derives from those black and brown folx living now, generous enough to teach and share their deeply rooted lineages.

Yoga can be poses, but it can also be the "seat of attention" and presence. We intentionally create space for breathwork, song, prayer, movement, silence, and meditation.

The practice is not always comfortable, especially when it includes confronting the oppressions in which we all swim. The practice can also create ease and space within oneself that facilitates navigation of the complicated now.
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Yoga practiced in community seeks to unite - self with self, self with others, self with purpose, self with higher power. We examine hierarchies, socio-cultural binaries, othering, and colonialism's continual harm in order to nurture connection and liberation for all.

It is perfectly good to practice at home alone; we also invite you to practice in community.

This heart-centered practice occurs in an honest space that welcomes all bodies, genders, races, religions as well as those who eschew such definitions.

Yoga is well-known to trigger us. We work to make the space whole and nurturing so that if (when) that happens, you are held with dignity and strength.

We are all worthy. We are all whole. We are all enough. We are all practitioners.

As the brilliant Naomi King shared recently, "I promise to disappoint you. I promise to be disappointed by you." When that inevitably happens, let us call one another in so that we can return to right relationship. Let us understand in body, mind, and spirit what right relationship is.

None of us is free until we are all free.

This is tiny, rural yoga practiced in an old schoolhouse that stands on colonized Wabanaki land. The practices honor yoga's South Asian roots as introduced through Carla Stangenberg of Jaya Yoga through the writings of Tirumalai Krishnamcharya and BKS Iyengar, and now Sri Adi Shankaracharya via Shankarji via Susanna Barkataki. Holly Zadra's first guru was her mama who taught her the priceless value of daily practice (abhyāsa) alongside how to care for plants and to consult with the ancients when we inevitably become confused.

Registered yoga teacher who operates the space bumbling at times through her privilege as a descendent of Slavic-Bohemian-Irish immigrant settlers, Holly's also a mom of four incredible boys, writer, community activist, and partner in love. She facilitates community classes as a side-gig while also always learning how yoga can help dismantle the shackles we impose on ourselves and others.

Holly is currently studying with South Asian, non-binary, big-bodied, trans, queer, and wheel-chair riding yoga practitioners organized through the phenomenal Susanna Barkataki's Embody Yoga's Roots 300-hr YTT.

Holly's yoga practice, study of emergent strategy, and even much of her formal education inform her current writing project that intersects labor, copper, and the inherited trauma of exploitation.