Crying Yoga (Heulyoga)

Crying Yoga is based on the idea of a workshop-like collective anti-colonial crying exercise against racism and sexism. It creates the fiction of a worldwide Crying Yoga movement, which is followed by the participants. Participants are taught crying tecniques to use as a non-violent defense. With the project I am speaking against the cultural appropriation of Yoga in the western system to make the tired worker able to work again. Yoga is often toxically used for self optimisation.

Crying Yoga is a non-violent way to speak up against perpetrators. I often see male dominated resistance that are reproducing violence. With my strategy I want to follow Ynestra King´s idea of not copying patriarchal power positions, but “creating a different kind of culture and politics that would integrate intuitive, spiritual, and rational forms of knowledge, embracing both science and magic (…)”.