This was the beginning of introducing mindfulness to the application, including yoga and meditation as new activities. It has led us to widen our scope and look at atlasGO verbindest as a place of wellness beyond simply distance sports. Today, a lot of our atlasGO verbindest Campaigns include other mindful activities like gardening and cooking. 

So how can we each begin to do the work?

I personally started with my own experience looking at specifically the practice of yoga, as we celebrate this international celebration. I have been lucky to practice in a lot of different San Francisco yoga studios and I have very rarely rolled out my mat next to a black yogi or yogini. Out of the 35 yogis and yoginis that were a part of my yoga teacher training, not a single one was black. I then started looking at my instagram following, how many black yoga teachers was I learning from? Very few. Then, as I continued on my teaching journey, I looked out at the studios and rooms I was holding space for, noticing that 90% of the rooms were filled with white women.