As humanity awakens to the devestating effects that racial discrimination has had on generations of people, it seems important and timely, to state our stance on this issue.

 At Girl on Fire and Women of Light, we stand in solidarity with Black, Brown and Indigenous people, who have survived racialized violence by colonial settler societies for hundreds of years. We also support those who are speaking out against such injustices and those helping to educate the world about these crucial issues.

As white bodied people with unearned privilege, we commit to dismantling white supremacy within our own conscious and unconscious minds and to taking action against racial inequality whenever and wherever we can.

This commitment includes caution around cultural appropriation that I, Jenny, may have engaged in during my career as a teacher and practitioner of Yoga, Ayurveda and Oriental healing arts. In efforts to effectively honor the yoga tradition, I've traveled to India multiple times to study directly with teachers who represent a long lineage of Guru's, and who willingly shared their tradition and gave me their blessing to teach, namely Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.

That said, we are committed to developing policies, practices and affiliations that contribute to acknowledging and repairing any harm that we have intentionally or unintentionally caused by teaching yoga and other healing arts in the western world.

While we have always acknowledged the origins of the content we teach, with deep respect for yoga's cultural roots, we also recognize that it is important to support efforts to preserve these traditions in their native cultures to resist modern day colonization and commodification.

It is for this reason, we make these commitments to: