005. Geek wellness, YogaQuest, and the power of stories with Justine Mastin
Episode 5 Show Notes
In episode 5 of the Accessible Yoga Podcast, Amber Karnes and Justine Mastin discuss:
- Justine’s yoga story: how she got started, what brought her back to the practice, and how she finally found her community at a comic book convention
- Why the geek community saw barriers to accessing wellness and how Justine came up with the idea for YogaQuest
- What to expect from a YogaQuest class, a narrative yoga class based in fandom stories
- Why representation is important for folks who are traditionally left out of wellness spaces
- Specific ways Justine created her yoga spaces to be more welcoming to folks from the geek community
- How Justine stays in inquiry around cultural appropriation and how YogaQuest is like yoga-fanfic
- Narrative therapy and the power of stories to question social norms and create the lives we imagine
- Justine’s upcoming book and how it helps us to question social norms through the lens of pop culture
Today’s inquiry
Each week we’ll leave you with a powerful question. We encourage you to sit in inquiry with this question, write about it, discuss it with another community member on this path. Today, Justine poses a 2-part question:
- What is the story of my life?
- Who are the important supporting characters?
Get a transcript, links to resources, and show notes at accessibleyogatraining.com/podcast.
