Cultural Acknowledgement
Beautify Face Yoga acknowledges the land used to do business to benefit others and to honor the peoples and cultures of origins from where I draw influence.
Beautify Face Yoga seeks to acknowledge the culture of origin in which Ayurveda & yoga began. On the Indian subcontinent, unnamed rishis wrote the verses of the Vedas. Patanjali synthesized some of these and created the yoga sutras. These are the systems from which I base the foundations of my work.
Face Yoga is a form of marma massage and exercise. This is also steeped in both Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). These systems are steeped into my teachings and I am grateful for the cultural influence of this form of self-care.
It is from this origin that I seek to honor the wisdom and bring the relevance to my students through the view of the Western culture. It is in deep regard that I guide others with this wisdom. Returning to nature is the key to saving our world from climate change.
Beautify Face Yoga operates in San Francisco, the native origin of the Ohlone people.
I honor these origins by offering annual donations to these organizations:
Yoga Gives Back to help women and children in India to have nourishment, health care, and clean water.
Educating Girls in Rural China to help girls in rural China communities have access to education.
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.