Yoga and Social Change a 12 hour course that Molly has been teaching since 2006. Now with an online version, students and teachers will have an even easier time to connect with others in our common goal toward liberation, and to learn how our yoga practice can teach us methods and practices to create and facilitate social change, to take on difficult conversations and to sit with people whose values and perspectives may be very different than our own. With 6 hours of online training and approximately 6 hours of self-directed study, we will discover how our spiritual practice is in fact a mandate for our participation in social justice and social change. This course is not available as a pre-recorded option.
Next Live Dates:
- Tuesdays and Saturdays,
- January 23 and 27, 30 and February 3.
- 11:00 am – 12:30 pm CST
About the Teacher: Molly Lannon Kenny
Molly Lannon Kenny has been on the path to fulfilling her dharma since her earliest memories. As a child, her parents would frequently take her and her brothers and sisters to the bookstore and let them wander for hours, lost in the magic of words and pictures. Molly often found herself sitting cross legged, flipping through BKS Iyengar’s Light on Yoga, intrigued and entranced by the photos and the mystery behind them. As a child, she was both physical and flexible, and often heard “you should do yoga!” from the adults around her, although it had very little meaning to her, but in fact, was most likely what sent her to the Yoga section of the bookstore in the seventies, long before Yoga was so widely accepted and practiced in the United States.
Life brought her many opportunities to share her fire and to realize her dream, but it was only when she discovered Yoga as a practice, rather than an odd set of circus tricks, did her specific path become clear to her. Molly has been teaching Yoga to all levels of practitioners for over ten years, and has worked tirelessly to create outreach programs to people who would otherwise not have the opportunity to experience joy and contentment through the timeless teachings of Yoga.
In 2001, she founded The Samarya Center for Humankind (ness), a 501 c 3 non-profit organization dedicated to individual transformation and radical social change. She created, published and trademarked a unique therapy method, Integrated Movement Therapy, built on these same principles of acceptance and inclusion. She has written and taught extensively on the topics of Yoga as Therapy and Yoga as a means to individual and social change, and is widely known as a vibrant, funny, accessible teacher, with a heart of gold and a spirit of fire.