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$35.00 Standard Rate - MCJ Book Event - $35
$25.00 Reduced Rate - MCJ Book Event - $25
$45.00 Pay It Forward Rate - MCJ Book Event - $45
Join Michelle C. Johnson, author of Illuminating Our True Nature, for a yoga practice, book reading, talk, and signing. This is a hybrid event with participants joining both in person or online. All registrants will receive a recording of the session, which can be viewed for 30 days after.
In this session, Michelle will draw from yoga philosophy, specifically, the kleshas or reasons why we suffer individually and collectively. Michelle will guide and share practices from her latest book informed by the eight-limbed path of yoga to support you in identifying how the kleshas show up in your life and how to respond to them.
No yoga experience is necessary.
A paperback copy of the book (with a retail value of $19.95) is included in the registration fee. Participants living outside the DC area will receive the book by mail.
Sliding Scale Fees: We offer sliding scale fees for select offerings to make Circle Yoga programs more accessible. The Reduced Rate is for people experiencing financial hardship. The Pay It Forward Rate is the standard fee plus extra to help cover students paying the Reduced Rate. Partial scholarships are also available.
Refund Policy: If you need to cancel your registration, a refund will be provided minus a 20% administrative fee if you cancel at least 1 week before the workshop. No refunds will be given within 1 week of the workshop. Send refund requests in writing to support@circleyoga.com.
Michelle C. Johnson
Michelle Cassandra Johnson is an author, activist, spiritual teacher and practitioner, racial equity consultant and trainer, and intuitive healer. She approaches her life and work from a place of knowing we are, can, and must heal individually and collectively. Michelle teaches workshops and immersions and leads retreats and transformative experiences nationwide. As a dismantling racism educator, she has worked with large corporations, non-profits, and community groups.
Michelle published the first edition of Skill in Action: Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World in 2017; and the 2nd edition of Skill in Action in November 2021, published by Shambhala Publications. Her second book, Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, was published by Shambhala Publications in 2021. Her 2023 book, We Heal Together: Rituals and Practice for Building Community and Connection, published by Shambhala Publications, explores the deep knowing and truth that we are interconnected; we belong to one another. We Heal Together offers rituals and practices meant to dream us into a new way of being to benefit the highest and fullest good. Her book, A Space For Us: A Guide For Leading Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups, was published by Beacon Press, also in 2023. Michelle's latest book, Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing, published by Shambhala Publications in 2024, explores the root causes of suffering, how to disrupt them, and work toward collective liberation.
Michelle was a Tedx speaker at Wake Forest University in 2019 and has been interviewed on several podcasts in which she explores the premise and foundation of Skill in Action, along with embodied approaches to racial equity work, creating ritual in justice spaces, our divine connection with nature and Spirit, and how we as a culture can heal.
Michelle leads courageously from the heart with compassion and a commitment to address the heartbreak dominant culture causes for many because of the harm it creates. She inspires change that allows people to stand in their humanity and wholeness in a world that fragments most of us. She lives in North Carolina with her sweet dog, Jasper, and her honeybees.
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