Nidra has supported me a great deal when I’m feeling it all and need guidance, grounding and rest.

Guided relaxation is not only soothing, but helps us ground and find steadiness. Steadiness, ease and rest allow our mind to discern, move through adversity and daily life and remember our committment to the liberation of all beings.

Everyone is hitting their limits right now and could use a helping hand. I feel called to be here. Join me this Monday for deep restoration.

As my offering this is FREE to all Black, brown, indigenous and native people.

Donation Offerings
venmo: @seritacolette
paypal seritayoga@gmail.com
cashapp $seritayoga

11/11/24 | Zoom | 6pm pst/8pm cst/9pm est

Open to all bodies, no experience or expensive gear required. No discrimination or hatred among us.

PROPS: 2 Blankets, pillows, and a place to lie down and gently stretch and contract your physical body, slow down your breath and rest. Your screen and audio will be off upon entering the practice. We will start promptly at 6pm.

COL in collaboration with PMI is bringing together social impact leaders including Dole, Founder of Bento Box, advocates and project managers building immediate solutions for unhoused folks living Los Angeles. Serita will be offering dharma and somatic meditation at Blackbird Collective in Culver City on September 17th.

To learn more about their work and how they are making an impact in Los Angeles:

Join our waitlist!

Serita Colette’s Digital Sunset and Evelynn Escobar’s Hike Clerb are teaming up together for PRIDE!

Join us for a day of hiking, meditation, embodiment and Digital Sunset at Bridge to Nowhere.

I love the idea of Bridge to Nowhere as an analogy for the work we do in the world and giving ourselves pause.  Black and brown people in particular are taxed to show up in ways that folks with multiple layers of privilege are freed from and what many of my trans and queer siblings have taught me is there is a world beyond the colonial gaze that sees life as inherently queer, light, infinite and free.

Our time together is to pause in nature without technology.  Introducing Digital Sunset. Digital Sunset is an opportunity cultivated by Serita Colette to unbind the bonds of tech culture and consumption and receive the light and touch of nature, connection and healing in real life.  

An analogy of pause is really important right now and for Black, brown, native, queer, trans, and two spirit people we are well aware the world will continue to run us ragged, but what happens when we are forced to stop. For me Bridge to Nowhere is a powerful site of reclamation.  To pause in our pursuit for something better and reckon with the uncertainty.  It can be terrifying, but "We are powerful because we have survived."

This pride is about Pausing for self on the heels of collective trauma and constant change to regenerate and unfold into our beings without shame.  The other side of shame is wonder and in order for us to get there we need a web of care, nature and these moments of pause- to stop and feel our light.

MPLS Save the date Oct 16-21!

More exciting details to be accounced

Retreat, Study, Nature, Friends

Join Serita Colette and friends at the Kinship Film Club for a screening of “Gaza Surf Club.” Serita will be sharing embodiment practices to ground everyone into the evening. Bring a mask, bring a friend and come as you are.

EDIT: This event has reached capacity. We will be live streaming on IG at 6pm pst @seritacolette 11/14. Join us!

Digital Sunset Teach-In: Organizing Care in Crises

Join Serita Colette, artists, creatives, healers and organizers as we come together to network and learn tools for our collective liberation. This event is free and open to all. We will be centering Palestinian voices, Jewish voices, Black and native voices, disabled folks, queer and trans folks, poor folks. This is NOT a place to debate whether the Palestinian people of Gaza and throughout Palestine, (our Palestinian siblings), have the right to live! This IS a space to organize care and build liberatory practices now! In partnership with SJP of Occidental College.

Oxy Arts

Tuesday, November 14th: 6-8pm

Bhavana/Intention: While a genocide and ethnic cleansing takes place in Palestine our awareness toward what matters most is often weaponized against us to fuel stagnation, despair, hopelessness or worse collusion. We are consumed by gaslighting and manipulation, isolation and grief. These times call for navigating oppressive systems with focused care and intention through the lens of organizing, healing justice, mutual aid, and carework. We each have adept wisdom that naturally flows outward when we are well resourced. We cannot fight fascism, white supremacy and create the change we wish to see in the world in isolation. We need each other. This is an opportunity to gather and dream up another world for all now.

Accessibility: This event is Free and ADA accessible. If you need support accessing or entering the building please email: seritayoga@gmail.com. Masks are required🙏🏾

Please stay home if you are feeling sick. No photography or recording of any kind is allowed throughout the duration of this event without written consent. Let's continue to honor and care for each other.

This event is taking place during the "Iridescence of Knowing," exhibition, giving participants a chance to familiarize themselves with Tongva voices here in L.A. working toward landback, visibility & safety, decolonizing and more!

Graphic by artist Melanie Cervantes, @melaniecervantes

Serita will be holding a very special teach-in at Oxy Arts of Occidental College on in Los Angeles, CA

The Price of the Guru

Limiting our exposure to spiritual vampires, spiritual bypassing. Knowing how to assess domination and control in spiritual spaces.

How does spiritual activism play a vital role in our collective care web and freedom practice?

Join Serita as we dive deep into a discussion of healing, access, and how to build a better world together.

Serita will be leading a meditation and yoga practice for the Queer Hike LA Anniversary Sunday, May 21st, 2023 at 10am!

Sign up before this sells out and enter to win a pair of tickets to Le Tigre at the iconic Ford Theater!

See you Sunday!

GenderJustice Wellness Covening Panel

Sold Out!

Serita will be speaking alongside other gender expansive and trans folks leading the way in the wellness world.

This event is part of The GJLA Center’s TGI Healing & Wellness Convening and is currently sold out.

Photo by Qurissy

Every last Friday of the month GJLA is having open office hours for our TGI community to share space and collaboratively envision what THE GJLA Center can look like. RSVP here: bit.ly/GJLATGIF

• Drop in anytime between 10:30am-7pm.

• Meet the GJLA team, get some free PPE, purchase some of our limited edition "Protect Trans Youth" "Protect Trans Elders" shirts

• This TGI Friday (April 28th) we are joined by special guest Serita Colette who will lead a FREE 90 minute Rest & Liberation body movement session 10:30am-12pm. 

• We will provide a couple of yoga mats, but we highly suggest you bring your own

What to expect:Asana, somatic,breathwork, nidra

A period to rest, reflect, practice, meditate, 20 minute savasana & guided relaxation, build some agni (fire), build more discernment, create a resolve to cultivate a more active self preservation practice each week that works for you now. Connect and receive!

More on Serita:  @seritacolette   www.seritayoga.com

Serita Colette is a nationally recognized queer, gender expansive Malayali-American healer and educator on occupied Tongva-Gabrielino land. Their work intersects Ayurveda, Yoga, Rest and Liberation, gender-race-class-sexuality, disability justice, mutual aid, and the arts.  Serita’s teachings are an inner call to action, shifting from body attainment to dharma, understanding emotions and using our power skilfully so that we may all be free.  Their studies in Yoga, Ayurveda, Gender, Anthropology in Social Justice and Seed Sovereignty have shaped their call to embody dharma as our inherent vehicle toward collective liberation. 

Serita started the first people of color yoga practice in Minneapolis, Mni Sota  in 2015.  Over the last 7 years Serita founded and continues to lead Rest & Liberation Retreats for Black and native people, trans and queer people, disabled and poor folks and folks living on the margins.  Serita’s work has been recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine, Netflix, The National Education Association, Castanea Fellowship, Mereba’s “Jungle Journals,” National Young Farmers Coalition, Experience Life Magazine, Dream of Wild Health, Pride Magazine, Women’s Press, and more.  When not teaching they co-create meditation music, voice over and performance art.

Digital Sunset:
A Rest and Liberation Practice by Serita Colette

Digital sunset grants us pause to collectively break from our screens and be in relation to our body and the living breathing world around us. It’s about consciously finding time to align with our planet's sun and moon by reducing the glare and noise that comes with daily phone use. It effects things like how we communicate, building unsustainable levels of urgency, noise, expectations, mental health, and physical capacity.

When we break from screens we are consciously stepping away from this noise. As we cultivate safe shared space again, desire for safety, kinship and ease remains a collective priority for many, but so too the ability to return to our truest selves.

Join Serita Colette in a one of a kind practice and meditation experience just in time for the Spring Equinox. This is about rest, reclamation and collective care. Digital Sunset utilizes the sibling sciences of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Dharma to rest in the gentle awareness of now.

What to expect:

Masks are mandatory and you must be vaccinated. We must care for one another :)

2hr practice mostly seated, and lying down with props: pranayama, meditation, dharma talk, journal, rest

Wear comfortable clothing

Turn your phone off or place on silent unless it’s an emergency

Let go of body attainment as much as possible and come as you are

Policy:

1. Anti-Blackness, transphobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, ableism or any other harm will not be tolerated.

2. Tickets are non-refundable. If you can't make it please notify at seritayoga@gmail.com so we can move folks from the waitlist to an open spot

This will sell out. Sign up today!

About Serita:

Serita Colette is a nationally recognized queer, Malayali-American healer and educator on occupied Gabrielino-Tongva Land. Their work intersects Ayurveda, Yoga, rest and liberation, gender-race-class-sexuality, disability justice, mutual aid, and the arts.

Serita’s teachings are an inner call to action, shifting from body attainment to dharma, understanding emotions and using our power skillfully so that we may all be free.

In the last five years of her 8 + years teaching Serita has been focusing on Rest & Liberation Retreats for Black and indigenous people, trans and queer people, brown folks, disabled folks and folks living on the margins. They lead in-house retreats, trainings and panels for non-profits, firms, fellowships and universities. Their work has been recognized by NEA, Pride Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, National Young Farmers Coalition, Castanea Fellowship, Experience Life Magazine, and more. When they’re not teaching and consulting, Serita creates meditation music, voice over and performance art in Los Angeles.

www.seritayoga.com @seritacolette

All content is the original property and work of Serita Colette, except where specified. No derivative works/adaptations, printing, or republishing, without authorization by copyright owner

**With ticket purchase, participation, or attendance, you hereby acknowledge & allow the use of photos and videos of you and/or your dependents to be used by SeritaYoga & Serita Colette for immunocompromised, disabled folks who cannot attend. This content may be edited for promotional material to ensure the cultivation of more space like this.

SOLD OUT! Thank you everyone who shared interest. We are keeping it to under 35 people this round. If there is a space/location that speaks to you for an event like this one please email: seritayoga@gmail.com, and thank you for your continued support!

Bring your mat, towel, water and comfy clothes and come practice!

This is an all levels practice prioritizing Black people, Native people and people of color. White accomplices and white passing folks are encouraged to donate to @serita-colette on Venmo!

Join me and Queer Hike Los Angeles for a beautiful breathwork, meditation and hike in
Rancho Palos Verdes!

Meeting Date: Saturday, June 25th, 2022

Meeting Time: Check in 9am, Breathwork, Meditation, Yoga Asana by Serita Colette @seritacolette, then hike!

Meeting location: 2 Park Pl, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275

Trail Information: Palos Verdes Bluffs Trail

Sunday 9am

What To Know Before You Go:

• Masks are highly encouraged. Please stay home if you have any symptoms or have been exposed to anyone who has contracted Covid-19.

• Please wear hiking boots or shoes with grip and ankle support

• Dress in layers to handle sun exposure and changing weather conditions.

• The trail is about 3 miles roundtrip with about a 500 ft elevation gain. It is very beginner friendly and is more of a nature walk with some incline at the end. We will be taking several breaks throughout the hike to make sure everyone is okay.

• Plan for a 2-2.5 hour hike and please let us know if you have any health concerns that might put you at risk during our hike. Safety is always a priority and we encourage everyone to listen to their body and limitations. We are not liable for any injury that may occur.

• Bring plenty of water and snacks for yourself.

• Leave no trace! Please take home whatever trash you might have with you.

• This location offers some paid street parking closer to the trailhead. Please note a reservation must be made and paid for beforehand on the following site. https://rpvca.gov/1424/ParkMobile

• .There is also free parking on Crenshaw Blvd/ Crest Rd. Please arrive early to secure a parking spot as they tend to fill up quickly. Carpooling is highly recommended if coming with others. DO NOT PARK AT THE DEL CERRO PARKING LOT.

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

To stay up to date on events follow: Serita on IG

Sunday May 15th 10-12pm

Center for Performing Arts Mpls

SUN ROOM

Address: 3754 Pleasant Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55409

Phone at CFPA: (612) 821-9202

Join Serita Colette as she returns to Minneapolis to lead Spring Renewal. This is an opportunity to revitalize your mind and senses. Spring is a time to clean and clear our houses and our minds. Nature's display of renewal as new seeds emerge is a gentle reminder to dust off our mats, energize our bodies and feed our hearts desire. Carve out this time for yourself this season to focus on self preservation.

Wet, damp, cloudy, rainy days can leave us feeling lethargic, doubtful, anxious and melancholy. This practice will reignite your vitality and energy, build your fire and find focus.

The yogic tradition offers a wellspring of Dharmic wisdom to bring us closer to the sacred aspects of life. In this workshop, Serita will guide you through mantra, pranayama, asana, dhauti, yoga nidra, and their off-the-mat application.

Registration HERE

On Christmas Eve I will be leading a 60-minute free restorative yoga practice on ZOOM

Eventbrite Link HERE

My peoples healing traditions have supported me a great deal when I’m feeling it all and need guidance.

Guided relaxation is not only soothing, but helpful to our nervous systems when we can’t do it all ourselves.

Everyone is hitting their limits right now and could use a helping hand. I feel called to be here. Join me this Friday for deep restoration.

12/24/21 | Zoom | 4pm pst/6pm cst/8pm est

Open to all bodies, no experience or expensive gear required. No discrimination or hatred among us.

PROPS: 2 Blankets, pillows, and a place to lie down and gently stretch and contract your physical body, slow down your breath and rest.

*Image captured by Nancy Musinguzi

If you have the capacity donations help support future practices ofor community care like this one! venmo: @serita-colette | cashapp: $seritayoga

Serita will be offering Yoga Nidra for the second year at the Trans Equity Summit.

For more information, please visit:

https://www2.minneapolismn.gov/media/content-assets/www2-documents/departments/8th-annual-Trans-Equity-Summit-program.pdf

From Tracee Stanley and ELC

“We are delighted to have the divine Serita Colette as our special guest on July 29th - 6:30pm - 8pm MT Serita will be in short conversation with Tracee and then lead us in a yoga nidra practice. 

More from Serita: ‘Yoga Nidra is an experience into deeper planes of awareness that transcend the material world.  For the purpose of this discussion we will focus on the experience of “shunya” in yoga nidra: void or nothingness as a means to counteract the digital news cycle/doom cycle we subconsciously embody when we get swept up in the currents of change. 

What does this deeper state offer on a mental, physical and spiritual level to our body and being and how can we utilize this practice to re-align toward our purpose to ourselves, our community, and our planet?’”

On June 3rd, Serita Colette will be presenting Yoga Nidra at the Minnesota Healing Conference.

Dear ones,

The loss of Black and brown life all this time is agonizing.  We want to name injustice.  It’s constant.  We need to abolish the police.  We need to wonder at what is possible for us, our elders, our kids, our planet.  Justice is more about where we go honoring those taken from us than what we do to make system of injustice permeable.

We know the people doing the absolute most to keep us safe are Black, brown, queer, indigenous people, trans people, disabled, nonbinary, asian, poor and chronically ill.  From the frontlines to zoom calls in bed, mutual aid, protest, and care.  All of it.  

We know that if all we end up doing is “doing,” we can never wonder at what’s truly possible for us beyond.

If possibility lies in space then we must find it.  

Space is liberatory.

Space is open.  Space can feel vulnerable, but there’s growth there.  Space is the dissolution of binaries, hatred and despair.  Space is infinite.  

.We envisioned HYPERNOVA as a space of possibility for Black and brown people.  It’s about where our minds can go when we let art lead.  

For our final show hosted by our beautiful friend, she’s artistic director and artist Marcela Michelle and has carried us through our galaxy voyage. Together we present: poet/powerhouse Su Hwang.  “Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of MN Book Award Bodega”

And last but not least, we are excited to announce that FPA will give the final performance of the series Live! from The Cedar Cultural Center 7pm Friday April 30th!  This is going to be intimate and healing.  We love her music and expression and so will you.  Tune in live at www.Publicfunctionary.org  Save the link- you’ll want to set a reminder. 

Photo by alan de leon taverna

Venmo: @Miles-Jamison | IG: @booboo3000000

Performer:  Booboo is a Non-binary, Black trans woman, interdisciplinary producer and musician based out of Minneapolis, MN.  One of her main goals is to elevate the voices and visions of Trans Black artists in Minneapolis and beyond.