Wambui Njuguna is a certified trauma-informed yoga teacher and feminine energy healer and educator. She guides others to connect with their natural sense of ease and longing for liberation through the Buddha Dharma and Black abolitionist liberation practices as transmitted through her teacher, Lama Rod Owens. Her warm, encouraging and gentle quality inspires a long-term approach towards a life filled with grace, joy and peace. Wambui is the co-founder of Yoga Roots Odeceixe, est.2023, home of Ashtanga Intersections: Emergent Healing Spaces.
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Dear Reader, We hope the start of the Spring season has brought you ease and much self-kindness and self-compassion. While it would be understandable to simply wish for positivity about the state of the world, the truth is, this would be an expression of what trauma specialist, Dr. Peter Levine, calls " Bliss bypass as a trauma response." There is so much sustained, ongoing grief and harm being experienced and witnessed in the world, as multiple genocides continue to be waged. This acknowledgement cannot be postponed and bypassed. To do so would be to weaponize positivity into toxicity and performative goodness. One can notice the duality of samsara: feeling great happiness when observing the power of the increasing light, budding green activity in the garden and the precious beauty of flowers; when experiencing a beautiful sunrise in rural Portugal, we can witness, truly, the boons of grace from the unseen forces of protection, love and benevolence. First, by honestly recognizing the wish (and surrounding wellness industry's messages) to escape into spiritual materialism; as well, by bravely identifying the way toxic behaviour and patterns live in us. The way they have been passed down in our ancestral lineages and shape our blind spots, biases and social conditioning; be it around racism, sexism, cis heteronormativity, ableism and all other categories which deem some to be more worthy of care and safety than others; Check out our workshop and retreat schedule Have you seen our information-packed page on all things to do with making your stay cozy and fun in Odeceixe? with Petri and Wambui April 3-8.4.2024 with Lama Rod Owens - Becoming A New Saint – Workshop April 16-21. 2024 with Petri and Wambui - A Personal Practice for Collective Liberation April 23-28, 2024 with Petri and Wambui - Yoga Ethics and Mindfulness May 7-12, 2024 with Petri and Wambui - Skillful Yogic Action On and Off the Yoga Mat A Collaborative Workshop with Petri, Wambui and Scott Johnson - A Mindful Approach to Ashtanga Yoga In collaboration with Ashtanga Futures: Yoga Teacher Training with Tamara Ashley - Hands on Adjustment / The Art of Yogic Living May 3 - 4 Ashtanga Yoga: An Introduction, Yoga Roots Odeceixe (In Person) Nov 2 - Dec 18 Yoga for Healing and Hibernation: An 8 - week online trauma-informed yoga series for cultivating self-love, self-compassion and deep rest healing. First Monday of the month (May 6, June 3, July 1, August 5, September 2, October 7, November 4, Dec 2): Donation based Seven Homecomings Meditation (online) *Email Wambui (info@wambuinjuguna.com) for more info In decolonial liberatory love, Wambui ❤️ |
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Wambui Njuguna is a certified trauma-informed yoga teacher and feminine energy healer and educator. She guides others to connect with their natural sense of ease and longing for liberation through the Buddha Dharma and Black abolitionist liberation practices as transmitted through her teacher, Lama Rod Owens. Her warm, encouraging and gentle quality inspires a long-term approach towards a life filled with grace, joy and peace. Wambui is the co-founder of Yoga Roots Odeceixe, est.2023, home of Ashtanga Intersections: Emergent Healing Spaces.
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