Becky Thompson
I am a scholar, poet, activist, senior yoga teacher, and author of Survivors on the Yoga Mat. My training in Bali, Greece and the US has focused on the energetics of yoga. I have taught yoga in Beijing China, Chiang Mai Thailand and Lesvos Greece and for years, have had the lucky opportunity to teach a multiracial, intergenerational group of yogis at the Dorchester YMCA in Boston. My soulful, music-filled classes include meditation, stretching and moving with breath. As Angela Davis has written, “Yoga reminds us that without deep, abiding practices of self care, there can be no radical social transformation.” In this class, everyone is welcome, all of yo