How to Create Equity within the Yoga Community
by Bibigul Amirova
In our latest series of interviews with Iyengar yoga teachers and practitioners, I sit down with Siobhan Sloan-Seale to discuss her yoga journey.
Siobhan is an Iyengar yoga teacher who identifies as a mixed-race black intersectional feminist and antiracist. She aims to create equity and build community within the community that she is a part of. Siobhan discusses how the pandemic has exposed a lot of vulnerabilities in our society and who the more vulnerable people are. She teaches a BIPOC yoga class, cultivating a safe space for people of color to come together, and in the interview addresses inequalities and systemic racism within the yoga community.
About the Author
Bibigul completed her studies under the guidance of Louie Ettling in 2019 and is now a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. Bibigul teaches in English and Russian, her native language, and currently serves on the board of the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Association in Vancouver. She is excited to share her passion for integrating the wisdom of yoga practice in everyday life.
