charli livingstone yoga
My background is in social justice work and capoeira Angola, the combination of
which has taken me to complete a PhD in anthropology and to live for several
years in Latin America. I came to yoga around 2007 in my early twenties, but it
was when I was living in a particularly challenging context, as I accompanied
human rights defenders in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, that I developed my own
daily yoga and meditation practice. This sadhana (practice) became my inner
refuge, and the fire for my resilience, as I witnessed and denounced the
injustice experienced by those around me. I honestly felt I would not have been
able to deal with some of the situations we experienced, without the inner
equilibrium, peace and strength I was able to cultivate daily on my mat. It was
this experience, and the desire to make yoga more accessible to many more of the
people who could most use these tools for self-and community-care and
resilience, that drew me to teach. Following this call, I completed my 200hr
Yoga Teacher Training in 2017. In 2018 I participated in two transformative
100hr immersions with my dear friend and teacher, Bex Tyrer, at the Yoga Barn in
Bali – Yoga Philosophy and You, and Body Image, Identity and Yoga, which had an
emphasis on yoga activism and unwinding the feminine aspects of the practice.
