Skill in Action, connecting yoga practices with the work of social change.

Through workshops, trainings, and community spaces, Skill in Action supports people in exploring how their practice can help build a more just and equitable world. Our work is grounded in the belief that healing and justice are connected - that the way we show up in our yoga practice shapes how we show up in the world. This is a space for learning, unlearning, and practicing together—with honesty, care, and intention.

OUR STORY

  • Skill in Action Book

    Explore the book that started it all: the second edition of Skill in Action, Radicalizing Your Yoga Practice to Create a Just World is now available.

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  • Events

    Visit our full calendar of workshops, trainings, and learning spaces for community and practice. Currently all live and online.

    Join us online

  • Offerings

    Visit our programming and offerings as we develop more courses, practices, and guided support rooted yoga and social change.

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The Skill in Action On-Demand Course is here for anyone ready to bring yoga and social justice together. Whether you’re a teacher, practitioner, or community organizer, you’ll find tools, practices, and people who are on this path with you.

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EXPLORE COURSE

Skill in Action is here for anyone ready to bring yoga and social justice together. Whether you’re a teacher, practitioner, or community organizer, you’ll find tools, practices, and people who are walking this path with you.

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Meet Our Team

  • This book set my entire soul ablaze. Michelle Cassandra Johnson has an authentic and clear way of breaking down the construct of white supremacy and the work we must do to dismantle it on individual and collective levels. This approach to liberation and transformation through yoga gives me hope and fuel in the fight to create a new experience for myself, my children, my community, and the world.

    Kelley Nicole Palmer

  • Michelle Cassandra Johnson has brilliantly and lovingly exposed the heart of yoga in the midst of a world struggling with racism, separation, and suffering. Her masterful book represents a sea change in the contemporary interpretation and practice of the ancient yoga teachings.

    Jivana Heyman

  • The promise of yoga is freedom. Freedom is both an individual and collective journey. Our liberation is tied to one another and so is our yoga practice. Skill in Action is a freedom guide-and it also asks questions that demand answers. What is information if it is not heeded? What is knowledge if it is not activated? What good does it do us to stand on our heads if we can't stand on our own two feet or stand up for each other? Can there be 'love and light' without acknowledging and contending with our personal and societal darkness? Within Skill in Action, Michelle C. Johnson calls us out, in, and together and teaches us what it means to live our yoga, greater purpose, and activate our power for the greater good off the mat. This is a book for all time and especially now.

    Octavia Raheem

  • [Michelle's] book, Skill in Action, is the go-to resource for any student interested in understanding the intersection of spiritual context in the framework of social justice. Michelle’s powerful writing brilliantly provides the reader with a holistic understanding of race and its implications in American culture, while also offering practical tools and the necessary skills to confront and navigate white supremacy and oppressive behaviors; both within society and in ourselves. Michelle is fierce in her commitment in teaching all of us how to embody a practice of equity both on and off the mat, but also compassionate in her ability to meet each student where they are at. I am immensely grateful for the many ways Michelle’s teachings have impacted the communities of yoga and beyond, and how she has informed and matured my own justice work in the world.

    Seane Corn