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Refine My Heart: (Yoga Birthdays) Part 3

"Yoga to me is connection. More than finding it physically, but a beautiful meeting in the middle. A divine meeting at the heart center."

ObservationsTanya BirlSeptember 25, 2017sohum, TheoryU, yoga, systemschange Comments

Refine My Heart: (Sunflowers & Trust) Part 2

"I had one expectation of Italy. To see lots and lots of Sunflowers. They are my favorite flower and I didn't think it was too much to ask..."

ObservationsTanya BirlSeptember 15, 2017TheoryU, SoHum, Yoga, Systemschange Comments

Refine my Heart: Part 1

A 4 part blog series documenting my time in Italy. Teaching yoga, meeting great people and learning how to love. Through this series I will recount a transformation that took place beyond the spoken or written word piercing straight to the heart of who I am.

ObservationsTanya BirlSeptember 8, 2017Yoga, Systemschange, TheoryU, SoHum Comments

The Art of Presence: A creative workshop in Barbados

OTT is a dynamic theater charity that gives opportunities to youth on the island of Barbados who otherwise would never be exposed to theater and the power that it brings not just to an artist, but to anyone who has a story to tell. This group of 22 students chose the theme for the workshop prior to our arrival: 'Pages: The Chapters of my life.'

ProjectsTanya BirlJune 1, 2017workshops Comments

The SoHum Series

What question lies at the heart of who I am? This pilot program is a brand new three part integrative approach that incorporates the principals of Theory U (curiosity, compassion, courage).

OfferingsTanya BirlMay 4, 2017Comment

RISE UP!

The lotus grows in the darkness, in the mud and the mirky waters of forgetfulness, but grows it must in the midst of its environment.

ObservationsTanya BirlMay 2, 2017GrowthComment

F.E.A.R

Fear is maybe the most talked about thing in the world. We all have it, take comfort in it, fight with it and embrace it...

Much like a mother.

ObservationsTanya BirlMarch 16, 2017Comment

A Moment of Yoga and Reflection Amid the Chaos

I Am - #NYC "Sometimes you have to change your posture before you can change your mind!"

ProjectsTanya BirlFebruary 17, 2017Comment

Geoffrey Jackson Scott: Socially Sound

" In my work with institutions, it's about coming back to that place of child like wonder and discovery."

ConversationsTanya BirlFebruary 6, 2017Socially SoundComment

Follow Up - "I Am"

"I don't believe a play should give you answers. It should lead you to more questions and energize you to find your own answers." - Anna Deavere Smith

ProjectsTanya BirlJanuary 26, 2017launchComment

Jamila Headley: Socially Sound

"The interesting thing about social media is how devolved power can be and how things can bubble up. For example Ben & Jerry's ice-cream for Black Lives Matter #nojusticenopeach."

ConversationsTanya BirlJanuary 17, 2017Socially SoundComment

Post Election Convening

"I AM" - #NYC "How might we build the courage to make our highest contribution"?

ProjectsTanya BirlJanuary 5, 2017Comment

Five Mualimm-ak: Socially Sound

" I represent the problems of society and I'm just mirroring that as the poet".

ConversationsTanya BirlJanuary 3, 2017Socially SoundComment

Mirrors

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton

ObservationsTanya BirlDecember 31, 2016GrowthComment

Stephanie Ybarra: Socially Sound

"Taking free Shakespeare into the world isn't a new idea. The radical idea at work here at the Mobile Unit is that we are going to go into these places and be humans together".

ConversationsTanya BirlDecember 27, 2016Socially Sound Comment

Vince Warren: Socially Sound

"My leadership style is more jazz than Bach"

ConversationsTanya BirlDecember 19, 2016Socially SoundComment

Chun Rosencrantz: Socially Sound

"It's not people of color's job to educate white people anymore on racism. It's my job as a white man".

ConversationsTanya BirlDecember 9, 2016Socially SoundComment

Roots

Ive been journeying way back lately. Realizing my growth upward is strongly tethered to something both wide and deep...

ObservationsTanya BirlDecember 6, 2016GrowthComment

Son & Seed

"The tension that we feel in life is only the sun trying to reach the seed."

ObservationsTanya BirlNovember 22, 2016GrowthComment

Speech(less)

What happens when you don't want to speak? Use your voice?

ObservationsTanya BirlNovember 22, 2016GrowthComment

Behind the scenes of Tanya Birl-Torres' Choreography in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'

Tanya Birl-Torres is the Choreographer, Intimacy Director and Cultural Consultant for the World Premiere Musical of ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ at the Goodman Theater in Chicago. Watch her discuss her inspiration for the work and what drives and inspires her to bring this story to the stage.

A Womanist Perspective on Food & Pleasure by Julissa Nuñez

Everything that I know about pleasure I've learned through food first. The patient way I have to wait for Haitian mangoes in the summer and white raspberries in the fall when they're in season.

It has been a lesson in labor and reaping the harvest of your own hard work.

We Can Breathe: Healing for the Uptown Arts Community

Join us for a FREE 9-video series of inspirational videos centered around Black, Indigenous, people of color in collaboration with artists from the Uptown community.

Vision | Manifest

A dance short film on the full spectrum of humanity that is a black woman. Movement director, writer, yoga teacher and activist Tanya Birl-Torres bears her soul in the tale of two viruses (COVID and Racism) and what it means for a black body to heal and be witnessed.

IN BODY CHANGE: Reclaim Your Rites A Yoga Retreat (Aug. 18-25)

A Trip of a lifetime to the rolling hills of Italy. Get lost in the expansion of nature, food and yoga while we explore the inward journey of refining the heart and creating a change from the inside out.

EmBODYing Change - JCC Harlem Event

An exploration of movement, yoga, theory U and Presencing', Our goal for this series is to cultivate a movement of individuals who will take these practices into their homes, work lives and communities by nature of being.

Jan 26, 2017

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