This inspiring free talk is for all yoga teachers, yoga students, and anyone interested in learning about how we can make a real and lasting impact on the world around us by choosing to live in the spirit of compassion, inclusion and equality. In this engaging and thought provoking workshop, Molly Lannon Kenny will present the challenge of accepting our desires to help and serve, and then of letting them go, in favor of the greater desire for deep human connection, or kinship.

By the end of this inspired talk, participants will have a new lens through which to see  what each of us, as individuals, can do to change our own prejudices and presumptions, and see our commitment to social justice as a necessary part of our commitment to yoga.

Molly Lannon Kenny was the founder and director of the Samarya Center, the Northwest's first non-profit yoga and therapy center for over 15 years before moving permanently to her home in Mexico. During her time at Samarya, Molly led over 30 yoga teacher trainings, was vice president of the board of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and taught and published extensively both nationally and globally. In 2008 she traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to develop the first yoga therapy training program at Reedman College, Tel Aviv. She is frequently a guest on yoga podcasts and the keynote speaker at major yoga conferences.

Molly’s current focus is on Bedside Yoga, Yoga and End of Life Care, Yoga and Grief Recovery, and the intersection of contemplative practice and social justice. She also delights in sharing the inter-spiritual mystic practices she learned while a student at the Center for Action and Contemplation with Richard Rohr. Molly has written multiple articles in both scholarly and lay press and is the author of the Yoga Memoir, "No Gurus Came Knocking." She has started more than 20 different yoga outreach programs and leads biannual tours to India with one of her longtime students who is a native of South India.

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Schedule Details

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

6:00–7:30 PM

Price Options

FREE

* Ticket price includes 7.5% NM gross receipts tax and 2.9% PayPal transaction fee.