with Amalia & Georgia
2-week series
24 January - 7 February
Monday at 5:30pm CT (2 hours)
This workshop will create awareness of how a racialized world causes different degrees of trauma in each of us. Looking at this is the first step to healing - as is acknowledging the discomfort in it. We will then discuss how to best utilize our spiritual practices as tools for fostering resilience and our tolerance of discomfort, thus allowing us to show up in the resistance.
We will begin to understand why and how spiritual work intersects with social justice work. The two worlds have remained largely separate; this must change.
In this workshop we will cultivate resilience and bravery by initiating discomfort in a safely held space. We will share ways to utilize your spiritual practice to foster resilience in yourself and your students.
As healers and teachers, we have a responsibility to do our own inner work and investigate the ways we might unknowingly be causing harm, and to look at the process of spiritual bypassing and how it shows up in the spiritual world/in our teachings.
“When I am sharply judgmental of any other person, it's because I sense or see reflected in them some aspect of myself that I don't want to acknowledge.”
― Gabor Maté
Who is this class for?
Yoga and Meditation practitioners and teachers ready to incorporate social justice work into their practice/lives.
What will this class include?
Meditation, discussion, and sharing intentions and purpose on how we can take action and continue to support each other in the pursuit of justice.
Amalia Sirica is New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Writer. She has spent the last 10 years working with children, young adults, and adults of all different backgrounds and experiences. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Duke University, and her Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University.
Her areas of expertise include attachment style based trauma and using mindfulness and somatic practices to improve your relationship with self and with others. When Amalia is not working, you can find her spending time with her friends and family, dancing, and traveling.
She believes deeply from her head to her toes that each and every single one of us is deserving of love and healing. She also believes that there is no healing without honesty, and that it is far past time that we were honest about our world and the ways in which it is violent and must change. This honesty starts with taking a brave look inside of ourselves.
Georgia Patrick is a Jamaican born wife, mother of three amazing humans, and trauma informed 200 RYT.
She was introduced to yoga by her father at a young age, and the seed was planted. However, it was when she became a mother and faced with the memories of her own childhood trauma that she discovered the healing impact of her practice. Guided by one of the yamas, Satya, she believes in truth-telling as one of the first steps of healing.
And in 2020, when George Floyd was murdered and what felt like a racial awakening occurred - she facilitated a 12-week workshop, addressing racism and the healing of racialized trauma.
Georgia loves gardening, reading mostly biographical novels of people who’ve overcome incredible odds, walking barefoot, and dancing to sweet reggae music. She also enjoys coaching and mentoring young women as they navigate the world, which sometimes feels overwhelming.
Georgia is honored to use her gifts to hold space and assist with our global healing.
