Saturday, May 23 | 12:30-5:30pm
25 CE credits (YA certified)

Prerequisite: Any movement teacher training

Join in the unravelling of status quo to begin your journey of authentically teaching, from a place of deeper understanding of the realities that many experience. 

This 25-hour continuing education program explores Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) through the lens of movement teaching and everyday leadership. Teachers will examine how identity, access, culture, bias, and power influence the spaces we create, both inside and outside the movement studio.

Through reflection, discussion, and practical application, participants will learn how to cultivate inclusive environments where students feel seen, respected, and empowered. This course emphasizes the responsibility of movement teachers not only as instructors, but as community leaders who shape culture through the spaces they hold.

Participants will leave with tangible tools to foster accessibility, equity, cultural respect, and belonging in their classes, studios, and communities.

5 hours in studio, 20 hours virtual content. 

Nikki Martin is a Writer, full time Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer living just outside of Halifax. She has passionately trained in the tradition of Tantra in the Himalayan lineage, mediation, pranayama, energetics and Ayurveda and loves to craft her classes and teachings around spirituality, philosophy and where they intersect with modern activism and social responsibility. As a multiracial woman of colour she has become a passionate advocate for diversity in yoga and in 2020 co-founded the Black Wellness Co-operative, a not-for-profit tasked with bringing wellness and wellness resources to BIPOC and underserved communities in Nova Scotia. As part of this path she has begun to work with local fitness and yoga studios in bringing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training to their teams and dreams of seeing more people representing a wider range of communities frequenting yoga and fitness spaces and in positions of leadership and influence over the coming years.