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.