This workshop is for yoga teachers and wellness guides who care about social justice — especially those who refuse to choose between grounded inner work and meaningful civic engagement but don’t want to turn their classes into political battlegrounds. It’s also for spiritually-minded people and community leaders who want language, principles, and practices they can share without resorting to spiritual bypassing or performative outrage.

In this live 90-minute online workshop (with replay), you’ll learn a practical framework for understanding how hate forms and spreads — internally and socially — and how to interrupt it without surrendering your values. Expect real ideas, usable practices, and space for thoughtful questions. You’ll understand how hate takes root in the mind and moves through culture, integrate courageous love-in-action into your thoughts, words, and deeds, and preserve your humanity in a dehumanizing world.

We’ll explore principles of bhakti-yoga that reveal:

Where hatred really comes from (and why it’s so contagious)

How falsehoods that stoke the fire of hatred work — and how to counteract them

What drives the inner mechanics of dehumanization—and how to reverse it

How to navigate the tension between justice and forgiveness

How principles of dharma provide support for courageous love-in-action

Bhakti-yoga offers spiritual activists tools that can help us hold on to hope without deluding ourselves, face emotionally challenging situations without feeling overwhelmed, and champion righteous causes without becoming self-righteous.

It's a path of love-in-action; an empowering philosophical approach to understanding the nature of hate and a blueprint for proactively responding to hate in ways that keep us grounded, steady, and inspired.