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Giving Back

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I recognize that I live and work as an uninvited settler on stolen Indigenous land, and that the colonial presence has and continues to wreak devastating harm to Indigenous people, families, communities, and ways of life. I recognize that this colonial society of which I am part is also living wildly out of balance with nature, and causing unimaginable destruction to the land, waters, plants, animals, and indeed entire ecosystems and everyone who is part of them. 

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I do what I can to be part of healing change and to shift our broken society toward greater wellness, balance, and reciprocity. One way that I do this is by offering free private yoga therapy sessions and free public yoga class participation for the following groups:
 

  • Indigenous Land & Water Defenders 

  • Indigenous Peoples whose homelands are now occupied by "Canada"(with or without treaties) 

  • Environmental Activists, particularly those who experienced trauma on the frontlines of actions.

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Please contact Erin for more information. Thank you. 

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I humbly and respectfully acknowledge that the land I live and practice on is the unceded territory of the Pentlatch, K'ómoks, and Tla'amin peoples, and that I formerly lived and practiced on the unceded territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and lÉ™k̓ʷəŋən peoples as well. I humbly and respectfully acknowledge the deep traditional and ongoing relationships of these and neighbouring Indigenous peoples to these lands, and the complicated reality of my presence as an uninvited settler. I further humbly and respectfully acknowledge that yoga is an ancient spiritual and wisdom tradition gifted from India and South Asia, and that it is often misappropriated and misrepresented in Western culture. I am committed to ongoing listening, learning, and action in healing the countless harms of colonization, to preserving the intactness and authenticity of yoga to the best of my knowledge, and to participating in healthier relationship with my Indigenous neighbours, with the source cultures from which yoga emerged, with the land, and with all my relations.

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Butterfly Tree Yoga is rooted in the principles of loving kindness, respect, compassion, accessibility, and anti-oppression. I have a strong commitment to welcoming and serving all people with respect and acceptance, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, neurotype, ethnicity, colour, nationality, cultural or religious background, citizenship status, age, health status, economic circumstance, family or marital status, or body size or shape. If there are ways I can remove barriers and better serve you, I welcome you sharing these with me. 

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Butterfly Tree Yoga is an LGBTQ2SIA+ Positive Space. 

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