Please submit an application to Yoga for Organizers below.
You will be contacted on a rolling basis if you are accepted. Once you confirm your attendance, payment options will be sent to you. If you have not heard back by December 27th, please contact Sola at hello@solahabibi.com.
Before applying, please scroll to the body of the description to ensure the details of this cohort work for you!
Yoga for organizers, is a 6 week cohort for activists and organizers to combat burnout through community intimacy, movement, meditation, breathwork, and song.
Community organizers hold space for others, but we are not always offered the same opportunities to process and be held. We manage our own trauma, created from systems of oppression, while vicariously taking on the pain of the collective. Left with compassion fatigue, many of us burn out.
Burnout might look like:
Loss of executive functioning
Brain fog
Anxiety
Pain
Apathy
Lethargy
Loss of interest
Numbness
Constant fatigue
Avoidance
Feeling unreal/ depersonalization
Isolation
Feeling overcapacity and overwhelmed
Unable to manage time
Depression
Yoga for Organizers is a container for peer to peer healing so we may combat burn out and continue our life’s work within the movement.
In the cohort you can expect to receive:
Peer support with likeminded organizers
Yogic tools to regulate your nervous system
A soft place to land and feel all your feels
Community intimacy to overcome isolation
Yoga for Organizers is dedicated to people who self-identify as community organizers. This was made for you if you advocate, fundraise, plan events, weave resources, and/or dedicate your labor and time to mutual aid projects and non-profits working directly with people most affected by systems of violence.
A QT+BIPOC centered space, allies are welcome but spaces are limited for folks who don’t identify as QT+BIPOC. The cohort will be intimate with only 10 people.
Meet the facilitator:
Sola Habibi is a multi-heritage ~ Palestinian, Ecuadorian, and Italian ~ non-binary, neurospicy queer from the Bay Area. An author, space curator, facilitator, entrepreneur, griever, creator, yoga instructor, organizer, and systems thinker, they value connection, care, and community in all that they do. Organizing with mutual aid groups and non-profits since 2016, Sola has burned out on more than 5 occasions, each time they have returned to this work with evolved skills and tools to navigate the stress of community organizing. In 2023, they received their 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification and since then have hosted healing spaces using yogic tools for processing grief, building community, and supporting the mental health and wellness of QT+BIPOC organizers in the Bay Area. In 2025, they recieved a 50 hr Yoga Teacher Training for Accessible Yoga including practices for trauma informed yoga, larger bodies, neurodivergence, and folks with limited mobility.
Permissions:
Community organizers are labeled as selfless, empathetic, and chronically overworked. I’m here to tell you, you are allowed to take care of yourself. Your problems matter, your feelings matter. Just because we don’t address our own internal challenges does not mean it doesn’t affect our organizing or our community at large. You are allowed to slow down and be taken care of. This is my role in the movement, to care for our social justice warriors, activists, and organizers so that ya’ll can keep transforming our worlds. I’m here for you and I give you permission to center yourself, if you haven’t given it to yourself already.
PLEASE READ THRU THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE REGISTERING!
Time+Date: 5PM-7PM every Friday from 1/9-2/13. Please make sure this time works for you before registering! I expect that some days we will run a bit later by 30 minutes. This will allow for more spaciousness around our circles.
Location: Our cohort will take place at the Berkeley Yoga Center at 2121 Bonar St, Berkeley. There is a code to enter, I will send this to you beforehand. There are about 20 stairs to get to the studio.
For Who: I know not everyone resonates with activists, but if you: advocate, fundraise, plan cultural events or liberatory workshops, defend our communities, organize or support mutual aid projects, work in nonprofits with a liberatory social, environmental, economic or political agenda --- this space is for you! Additionally, if you are a QT/+BIPOC person who is resting as a political act. You are invited. The definition is broad as there are many roles in our movements! Fat, disabled, and sick attendees welcome. Please read the accessibility note below to ensure that the walking or other parts of the program are suitable for you.
Covid: Masks are not required - due to movement and breathwork practices allowing the breath to flow freely is important. To ensure some level of protection, windows will be propped open and an air filter will be on. Participants will be required to test prior to each class. Please let me know if you need access to tests.
Yogic Movement/Breathwork: Yogic movement practices include standing, sitting, and laying down (prone/supine) poses. The class centers your agency. No movements are required of you, everything is a suggestion. A variety of different approaches to poses will be offered to help with accessibility. If something does not feel good or you don’t want to do it, please do not. This practice is for you to get in touch with your body, that can be done through fitness level movements, strength building, stretching, or gentle massage and breath. You are welcome to lay down the entire time if that is what your body needs that day. Some breathwork and yoga poses are not suited for everyone’s body. Please discuss with a medical professional if you have questions on what is good for your body especially if you have an underlying health conditions like high/low blood pressure, POTS, cancer, pregnancy, serious injury, etc. You will be required to fill out a waiver before the cohort begins.
Pricing: The pricing is sliding scale to help the space be more accessible. If you have the means to pay more, please do. The full price of the cohort is $400, payment plans available. Sliding scale ranges from $300-$500.
Amenities: A bathroom is available in the studio. Heat will be on, the room will be warm with a breeze from open windows. Mats, blankets, bolsters and straps will be available to borrow for free. You are welcome to bring your own mat and props. There will be access to hot water and tea.