Malidoma Collective's donation-based approach to community healing
Malidoma Collective is a powerful group force of female vision for creativity, community, and wellness. And for anyone paying attention in the town these days,the group and its members are an integral piece of Oakland’s social and cultural fabric. Through their unified productions, as well as individual endeavors, Malidoma offers opportunities for cultivating cultural empowerment and social regeneration through art and engagement, not unlike their beautiful and experiential installation at our original Feels event last May. The latest development to evolve out of the Collective is Doma Yoga–a donation based yoga series dedicated to healing people of color, their communities, and specifically West Oakland, through radical self-restoration.
Doma Yoga manifests as a series of three-month-long intervals, with a one month break in between, and rotating instructors and locations. During a given series, classes take place from 11am to 2pm each Saturday and include two yoga sessions and one guided meditation. Instructors are invited to facilitate a class on the basis of their representation and engagement in yoga and communities of color.
For Malidoma, Doma Yoga intends to provide traditional, ancestral practices for prevention and healing to people of color in a way that purposefully emphasizes their identities and experiences. Doma recognizes the profound restorative effects of yoga as practice, lifestyle and as a means to combat the systematic and interpersonal oppression faced by POCs and their communities.
To date, Doma Yoga has offered a variety of practices, including Kundalini and Vinyasa, and encourage all skill levels, and even families, to attend (and a recommendation to attend the 1st session for parents with children under 4 years old). The Collective suggests a $10 donation and is holding sessions at, and in partnership, with The Living Room Project; a West Oakland community space or healing justice work supporting black and brown Queer and Trans people, through March 14th.
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