Be The Change Yoga & Wellness

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and we are so grateful to the work of our local @ywcasv to support families in so many ways, including encouraging self-care. And what is more critical to our healing than #selflove ? Our dear #BTCCollective member and teacher @root2risefamilyhealing will be guiding a virtual self-love meditation next Tuesday for this beautiful offering organized by the YWCA and their #weekwithoutviolence

Our honoring process would not be complete without giving our deep gratitude to Maestro and dear brother Enrique! @casakundaliniyoga Enrique has been bringing Kundalini Yoga en Español, sound medicine, and so much wisdom to the Sj and BTC community and Beyond since 2015!! His teachings and work to bring yoga to the Latinx community is a gift to BtC and we were so honored to serve as a home for his classes. We have learned so much from Enrique’s strong spirit and generous heart. From the studio to serving in parks and all three years of @conscioussanjose festival, Enrique has channeled so much healing for our community. We love and appreciate you Enrique! Join Enrique’s online community at @casakundaliniyoga #btcfam

Appreciating this pure embodiment of joy and peace @thepeacedancer she’s been lifting our spirits since we first connected 4+ years ago and has showed up as a beacon at every turn in our evolution as a BTC community. From teaching yoga to spreading and teaching the dance of peace across our community, we are forever grateful and honored to have had Khalilah as a leader and presence with BtC! We love you Khalilah! #btcfam

So grateful for the gift that is Ms. Shaina Shaina has brought so much light, authenticity, and deep passion for supporting youth, yoga, and social justice to our community! From bringing Yoga Club to our middle school students, always stepping up to sub BtC classes, leading Teen Warrior Camp, to serving as such an engaged member of our community, BTC came up big time when Shaina joined our family! We love you Shaina, thank you for all the love you’ve poured into BtC! #btcfam

We wouldn’t be complete without taking a minute to appreciate @thatfoolal and all that he has given to BtC! Al is the realest!! leading and mentoring as lead teacher in our youth programsfrom Job Corps classes to our Woke Teens camp, organizing and rocking the mic with @conscioussanjose since Day 1, to allllllll the organizing and creative leadership he brings the San Jose communityhe’s a huge force of uplift and the real deal in nurturing and inspiring conscious thought and living. We love and appreciate you Al! #btcfam

There’s a few more peeps we need to recognize as we close out for the Fall. Appreciating @marktanakayoga and his many years of service, wisdom, and mentorship or our community! From teaching at all three @conscioussanjose festivals, to guiding Qigong in the park, to numerous workshops that forever deepened our understanding of the practice and our healing, to working with and coaching so many of our leaders, we are forever grateful to the massive impact Mark has made on our work and through his healing guidance! We love you Mark!

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Intuitive, creative, grounding, and wise, @omnipotentstudio has showed up as a light and a true authentic leader and guide since we met her in 2018. Eboni has brought us so much perspective and wisdom through her teachings and embodiment of the practice and spirit, on and off the mat. From creating and holding space for BIPOC artists and healing with @mlnnmnds to serving as teacher in studio and beyond in our parks with @conscioussanjose , to being an active community member and support in BtC, Eboni has served as a strong and rooted voice in our community, always showing up with such authenticity, grace, and presence! We love you Eboni! Catch her last class tomorrow Sunday at 11AM! #btcfam

This force oflove From leading the way in radical self-care, to leading with agape love in radical community care, truly Nicole has served BtC with so much support, practice, wisdom, yoga, and joyful energy on and off the mat. Nicole has been serving with BtC since 2015, she has shaped who we are and the integrity with which we approach the work of making yoga accessible in our community. From her delicious Saturday morning class, to Sunset Yogas, to trauma informed and radical self care workshops across our community, and beyond... we are deeply grateful for this woman and all she gives BTC and beyond! We love you Nicole! Catch her last Saturday morning class tomorrow at 11AM. #btcfam

It’s been 4.5+ years we’ve had the gift of @headonthegroundyoga sharing her many gifts and her supportive, loving, badass, strong, and inspiring presence with us! She’s held us down with always juicy flows as well as so much support to our organization and community as a whole. From her many resonant workshops and creative classes, to her Darkwave yoga flows, Gemma is always bringing the freshness as a dedicated teacher and leader in the community! We love and appreciate you Gemma! Catch the last Yang to Yin class Friday night at 6pm and her last Saturday morning Vinyasa with us at 9:30am. #btcfam

We are so grateful to @marissavictoriayoga for holding down Friday mornings for BtC for 3+ years now! Full of insight and a strong practice and passion for teaching, we appreciate all the warmth, care, and intention you brought our community Marissa! Much love and appreciation. #btcfam

From co-directing @conscioussanjose festival all three years, to teaching in parks, working with families, and holding so much space for our community in so many ways, Kat @root2risefamilyhealing has been a radiant leader in our BTC family. With a fierce and compassionate mama heart, and brilliant dedication to continuous growth personally and collectively, we don’t know who we’d be without Kat embedded in the fabric of BtC. We don’t have enough words to describe our gratitude, thank you Kat for your generous deep, compassionate, wise, intuitive, and nurturing well of love and care that you give BtC and the community. Your truth and light have showed us the way to a more authentic and connected way to be! We love you Kat! Don’t miss Kats last Friday Self-Love Meditation tomorrow morning at 7:30am and Yin yoga at 4:30pm! #btcfam

This force of joy and embodiment of compassion @lightupthebody When Tenaya walks in, a little more ease comes into our bodies, and when we rest in her Restorative class, we emerge deeply nourished and connected. It’s such a gift to have you in our community Tenaya, from organizing AbunDance, to your classes, to the ways you share your warmth, spirit, reverence for yoga, and compassionate wisdom with the community, we are so grateful for you! Thank you for all the love you’ve served up at BTC! Tenaya’s last Restorative class is tonight at 7:15. #btcfam

Strong, kind, caring, hilarious, a brilliant teacher, and so generous in spirit and care for community, we have such deep appreciation and admiration for @jennsmiththorp thank you for growing our practice and growing our food, you’ve nurtured us in so many ways. We learn something new about our bodies and how to build embodied intelligence in and beyond asana in every class with Jenn, not to mention her grounding and bright presence! Thank you for sharing your practice... and wisdom with us @jennsmiththorp from the studio over the last 3.5+ years, to our parks and the farm, we appreciate all you’ve so generously given our community! Catch Jenn’s last class with us tomorrow Thurs at 6pm! #btcfam All photos by @lannysphotos