People’s Catholic Seminary and
Women’s Ordination Conference
are proud to present:
Empowerment Through Embodiment Practice With Lizzie and Wambui
Giving up patriarchy for Lent this year? Join us for Freedom Fridays as international yogini, Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen, and feminist chaplain-scholar, Lizzie Berne DeGear offer a powerful opportunity for community care and self-sovereignty. In three gentle yoga sessions we will learn to breathe deeply and practice sustainable self-care in the midst of dismantling systemic oppression. All are welcome and no prior experience with yoga is needed.
Every other Friday during Lent:
March 14, March 28, and April 11,2025 1pm Eastern Time
(please check your local time each week, as the world switches to daylight savings time)
75 minute sessions will include orientation, reflection, meditation, a 45-minute practice and time for q-and-a. Sessions will be recorded and participants are encouraged to revisit them as often as you like in your personal practice.
$60 for all three sessions. Wambui and Lizzie are offering this course at this accessible rate in solidarity with all who join the Catholic Women Strike movement this Lent.
Lizzie Berne DeGear, BCC, PhD
Lizzie Berne DeGear, BCC, PhD is familiar to the PCS and WOC communities through her bible studies including “The Ministry of Jesus as the Expansion of Consciousness”, “The Women Who Wrote the Bible” and her animated short film “(m)adam: Adam’s Rib Reframed” Certified with the National Association of Catholic Chaplains since 2002, Lizzie’s passion for facilitating group experience was sparked by her hospital chaplaincy work on the inpatient psychiatric unit and with those facing addiction. This collaboration with Wambui is a dream come true – an opportunity to collaborate on their shared passions for healing and justice, while bringing her Anusara-yoga teacher-training into her work with the PCS and WOC communities.
Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen (she/her), MA, E-RYT 500, TCYM-T
Wambui Njuguna-Räisänen (she/her), MA, E-RYT 500, TCYM-T is a Kenyan-American based in rural Portugal, passionate about slow healing through trauma-informed yoga. She has been an Ashtanga yoga practitioner since 2008 and teacher since 2011 and is the co-founder of Yoga Roots Odeceixe, est 2023 . In 2022, Wambui moved to the countryside to learn how to grow her own food, make her own medicine and reclaim both her self- sovereignty and deep symbiosis with the Land.
Wambui is deeply inspired by spiritual teachers and communities that seek ways to apply the insights from our various practices and teachings to situations of social, racial, political, environmental and economic suffering and injustice.
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