005. Geek wellness, YogaQuest, and the power of stories with Justine Mastin

Episode 5 Show Notes In episode 5 of the Accessible Yoga Podcast, Amber Karnes and Justine Mastin  discuss: Justine’s yoga story: how she got started, what brought her back to the practice, and how she finally found her community at a comic book convention Why the geek community saw barriers to accessing wellness and how Justine came up with the idea for YogaQuest What to expect from a YogaQuest class, a narrative yoga class based in fandom stories Why representation is important for folks who are traditionally left out of wellness spaces  Specific ways Justine created her yoga spaces to be more welcoming to folks from the geek community How Justine stays in inquiry around cultural appropriation and how YogaQuest is like yoga-fanfic Narrative therapy and the power of stories to question social norms and create the lives we imagine Justine’s upcoming book and how it helps us to question social norms through the lens of pop culture Today’s inquiry Each week we’ll leave you with a powerful question. We encourage you to sit in inquiry with this question, write about it, discuss it with another community member on this path. Today, Justine poses a 2-part question: What is the story of my life? Who are the important supporting characters?  Get a transcript, links to resources, and show notes at accessibleyogatraining.com/podcast.