About the Organizers:
Sola Habibi and Alchemystic Studio are putting forth a petition for all conscious yoga instructors and studios to name their support and act in solidarity with Palestinian’s facing dehumanizing genocidal attacks on civilians and children in the West Bank and Gaza. We have noticed a deep confusion by yoga studios, instructors, and spiritualists during this time fueled by western media outlets’ propaganda and outright lies. We are calling for all yoga instructors and studios to break the silence and firmly stand together against all forms of violence.
Sola Habibi is a multi-heritage non-binary queer wellness entrepreneur, creative, and community organizer in California. Their grandfather fled Palestine in 1948 during Nakba ~ Israel’s first large-scale violent siege of land, property, and lives. We are again seeing an unprecedented number of Palestinian civilians violently displaced and massacred by the Israeli occupation. As a yoga instructor and wellness entrepreneur disrupting the status quo of western white-washed yoga spaces, Sola believes that we cannot be well in a sick world. We cannot turn away from injustice and dehumanization in our healing spaces. Yoga builds the capacity for us to endure and hold stress, a tool that can support our liberation movements if we apply it correctly and with deep respect to the original indigenous practices of yoga.
Alchemystic Studio is an inclusive space designed to meld the healing and wisdom of queering re-indigenized yoga with the mission of modern abolitionist movements. We warmly invite seekers and disruptors to co-create communal care and radical cultural elevation for all, and specifically prioritize our LGBTQIA2S++, BIPOC, bigger bodies, sa/dv survivors, chronically ill, neuro-divergent, and otherwise marginalized sacred siblings. We believe in the power of community to help us heal, and to amplify our ability to dismantle harmful systems on an energetic and societal level, so that we may all rise together. Our studio aims to create true solidarity, as we believe a people united can never be divided. We stand against settler colonialism of all kinds, casteism, classism, and all systems in which there is an oppressor and an oppressed. As a space that centers the Queer and Trans POC experience, we stand against the pinkwashing that the so-called ‘western’ world has used to dehumanize Palestinian people. We do not consent to our queer identities and the notion of queer safety to be used to further a genocidal agenda. Queer Palestinian people exist and love and breathe and deserve safety, which can only be accomplished through CEASEFIRE.
