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Equity Book Club: The Trauma of Caste

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Dates
Sunday 10/06/2024 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Pricing
$100.00 The Trauma of Caste - $100 Donation
$75.00 The Trauma of Caste - $75 Donation
$50.00 The Trauma of Caste - $50 Donation
$25.00 The Trauma of Caste - $25 Donation
$10.00 The Trauma of Caste - $10 Donation
$0.00 The Trauma of Caste - $0 Donation


Circle Yoga’s Racial Equity Team is excited to host another meeting of the Equity Book Club. We'll read The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition by Thenmozhi Soundararajan. We hope you'll read the book, but we'll also share key excerpts and online resources prior to the event to support the conversation. Please register in advance to receive these materials.

Caste—one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world—is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. The average age of death for Dalit women is just 39. And the wreckages of caste are replicated here in the U.S., too—erupting online with rape and death threats, showing up at work, and forcing countless Dalits to live in fear of being outed.

In the Trauma of Caste, Dalit American author and activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan puts forth a call to awaken and act, not just for readers in South Asia, but all around the world. 

This is a hybrid event. Join in person or attend online. A limited number of copies of Thenmozhi Soundararajan's book are available in the shop at Circle Yoga. If you'd like to reserve a copy, contact us.

This is a donation-based event with a suggested donation amount of $10-$100. One hundred percent of your donation will support scholarships and community outreach programming through Circle Yoga Connects.



Sumana Brahman

Sumana Brahman is originally from Chennai, India, and grew up in Guyana, South America. She has returned to the US after spending 10 years in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she practiced and taught yoga, while pursuing her career in public health programming. Her teaching style focuses on enhancing mind-body awareness in the pose and correct alignment, while increasing the student’s strength, flexibility and stamina. For her, the path of yoga is a deeply spiritual journey, and she is very grateful to her teachers, in particular, Swami Rudra Dev, who inspire her personal practice and teaching style. Sumana also holds Masters degrees in International and Development Education and in Public Health, and works in the field of international health and development.

Anne Kennedy

More than 18 years ago, Anne called her mom to report that she was leaving her desk job to train as a yoga teacher. There was dead silence and a lot of worry on the other end. Today, Anne has a job that she never could have dreamed up. As the Executive Director at Circle Yoga Cooperative, she gets to spend her work hours at a mission-driven, cooperative business, where she is barefoot most of the time. She loves working side by side with a such a talented and committed group of teachers and staff. After a 5-year break from teaching weekly classes at the studio, Anne is back on Tuesday mornings at 10:30am.