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The Center for Religion and Spirituality invites you to this online Yoga, Mindfulness and Social Change yogi and author Matthew Remski. 

What on earth happened to the yoga world when the pandemic hit and it moved online? Wasn’t it bad enough that 100s of thousands of teachers were suddenly sun saluting in front of the little green dot on their webcams? Did we also have to watch our yoga and wellness communities get torn to shreds by conspiracy theories,Trumpism, and even QAnon? It didn’t have to happen, but we can’t be surprised that it did.

Researchers have long known the 3 key axioms of any conspiracism: “Nothing is as it seems, Everything is connected, and Nothing Happens by accident.” From one point of view, this might sound like a junior yoga teacher's hot-take on karma and interdependence.

Also: isn’t true that the charisma of yoga teachers is always looking for the next provocative and urgent bit of content to market? And isn’t the whole leadership structure of the industry rooted in “disruption”? Add to this an unhealthy dose of antipathy towards regulated medicine, the fact that gig working and MLMs go hand in hand in the US, and so many people relying on yoga to help with mental health issues, and it’s really no wonder that the industry was fertile ground for conspirituality.

In this workshop we’ll delve into the unfolding history of this strange period, and also look forward to the intellectual, relational, and cultural repair it will take to foster resilience in the face of online chaos.

To Attend
Registration is open online (click "Buy Tickets" button). Times listed are set to Pacific Time. This is a virtual workshop. Registered participants will receive an email invitation prior to the start of the workshop to connect via live videoconference using Zoom. Read here on how to connect.

In the event the workshop is canceled, participants will be notified by Wednesday, the week of the workshop. Registration fees are refunded only if the workshop is canceled; no refund for partial attendance or no-show. For further information, please email the Center at yoga@lmu.edu.

About the Speaker
Matthew Remski, E-RYT 500, has practicing meditation and yoga since 1996, learning from teachers from the Tibetan Buddhist, Kripalu, Ashtanga, and Iyengar streams., and maintains a private practice in Toronto. He is the author of Of Threads of Yoga: A Remix of Patanjali’s Sutras and Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics, and Healing in Yoga and Beyond.

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