Live Session Agenda

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3:00 PM - 4:25 PM

• Welcome & Agenda Review - Mindfulness Invite: Focus & Attention
• Discussion: Asteya (Non-Stealing) and Its Applications
• Group Reflection & Application

4:30 PM - 5:25 PM

• Discussion: The Nervous System in Trauma-Informed Sequencing (Centering & Somatics)
• Breakout Discussion
• Group Integration
• Break (5 Minutes)

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

• Discussion: The Yoga Sutras
• Group Discussion & Closing

Asteya

EXPLORING NON- STEALING

What is Stealing?

Consider some of the initial thoughts that come to mind when you think of what “stealing” means in your personal experience and upbringing.

• How Did You learn this?
• Family?
• Community?
• School?
• Media?
• Literature?
• Religion?

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Stealing from Self (and others)

• Self Doubt - What do you choose not to do/try/explore?
• Past/Future - worry, concern, guilt, shame, regret
• Social Interactions- What is priority? Listening to Respond/React
• Attention & Focus - where does this go? Why?
• Perception - “Appropriate”, “Beautiful”, “Capable”, “Healing” (“mess”, “trainwreck”, damaged”)
• Defensiveness/Retaliation - Preparing the fight rather than learning a new perspective
• Gossip
• “Instant Gratification” - What we think we need, where we “should be”, Jumping beyond competency
• Lack of Self Advocacy / Advocacy for others
• Withholding Truth/Altering Truth / Partial Truths
• Misaligned Expectations

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• Ways Humans Steal from Other Humans

• Mass Incarceration
• Slavery
• Human Trafficking
• Colonization
• Oppression
• Lack of Access to Resources
• Gaslighting
• Census & Voting district restructure
• Body/Identity Shaming
• Listening to Respond
• Assumption & Biases
• Projecting Expectations
• societal, cultural, familial, relational
• consider yoga spaces….
• Pharmaceuticals
• Worry
• Judgement & Prejudice
• Manipulation
• Converting

Kleshas – Barriers of Non-Stealing

Ignorance - Avidya

• Ego - Asmita
• Attachment - Raga
• Aversion - Dvesha
• Fear – Abhinivesha

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Samskara

Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective

How might trauma steal from the lives of impacted individuals?

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Health/ Wellbeing

Perceptions

Relationships (self/others)