FACILITATOR
Anu (they/them) is a Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator and trauma informed yoga facilitator. Their sessions aim to be adaptable and accessible for people with mobility requirements and other access needs. They approach yoga from a decolonial framework and aim to honour its rich history as an extension of their personal process of decolonising their ways of thought and being.
They guide participants through their sessions with choices and options that offer the potential experiences of grounding and centring, some movement, breath work, and the options to work towards relaxation and meditation, where perhaps these moments of pause and stillness create opportunities for reflection and self inquiry.
Anu invites participants to approach the session in ways that best suit their present moment experience, with an understanding of the often long, and non-linear journey back to the body after trauma. Their main training includes a 1000 hour diploma of yoga teacher training and the 300 hour Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitation training. Anu has facilitated, and has a special interest in activist wellbeing, as well as facilitating yoga with the Queer and Trans communities, older adults, carers, and refugee and migrant communities.
Anu facilitates with Collective Being because their core values align. They live as an uninvited guest on the sacred and unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation, in so-called Melbourne. They acknowledge their white body and non-disabled privileges and commit to doing the work of questioning all their privileges and position within the many systems of oppression that they would love to see dismantled.