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BYTA 2026 Conference 10 Years, Still Rising https://blackyogateachersalliance.org/byta-conference-2026/

🌿 Join the 26th Texas Yoga Retreat!

This October 16–18, gather with yogis from across Texas and beyond at Ancient Yoga Center in Austin for one of the longest-running yoga gatherings in the southern United States.

✨ Highlights include:
• A dedicated Yoga Therapy Track
• Yoga, meditation, and breathwork
• Nourishing vegetarian meals
• A welcoming community for practitioners of all experience levels

Learn more and register here: https://buff.ly/Q3uHxBI

🧩 June 18 is Autistic Pride Day: a day that celebrates neurodiversity, dignity, and the beauty of difference.

Autistic Pride Day reminds us that every mind brings its own brilliance, perspective, and way of experiencing the world. It is not about “fixing” differences, but honoring them.

Dr. Maya Angelou’s words continue to remind us that humanity is strongest when we make room for one another.

Acceptance begins with listening. Respect begins with understanding. Pride begins when people are allowed to exist fully and authentically.

Today, we celebrate individuality, inclusion, and the power of being seen.

How do you create space for others to be fully themselves? ✨

The House That Held the South’s Stolen Children
At Alexandria’s Freedom House Museum, America’s domestic slave trade is no longer hidden behind the polite brickwork of Old Town.

On Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia, the brick façade of Freedom House Museum carries the burden of a national confession. The building at 1315 Duke Street is not a ruin, not a reconstructed symbol, not a distant plantation cabin moved into a controlled museum landscape; it is the surviving remnant of one of the most consequential human-trafficking sites in the antebellum United States, a place the City of Alexandria describes as “what remains of a large complex dedicated to trafficking thousands of Black men, women, and children from 1828–1861” through the domestic slave trade on its official museum page. Its quiet presence in Old Town is precisely what makes it devastating: the ordinary street, the tidy historic district, the polished tourism economy, and then this address, where Black lives were inventoried, confined, separated, marched, shipped and sold into the cotton and sugar economies of the Deep South.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/06/18/the-house-that-held-the-souths-stolen-children/

📣 SYTAR Day Passes Now Available!

If you're local or can only join us for part of the event, a day pass is a fantastic way to experience the field's premier gathering for yoga therapy education, research, and connection.

If you're able to join us for the FULL conference, here's what's included:

⭐ Learning from 40+ leading voices in yoga therapy and research
⭐ Session recordings from both tracks—over $540 in added value
⭐ 22 CE credits at no additional charge (IAYT members)

No matter how much time you're able to spend with us, we'd love to welcome you in California—register today and be part of the experience June 11–13 at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa.

Learn more and register: https://buff.ly/TOWA8bD

✨ Going Live with SYTAR 2026 Sponsors!

Join us Thursday, May 28, at 1:00 PM ET for a special SYTAR livestream featuring this year’s sponsors and partners. Tune in on IAYT’s Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn to learn more about the organizations supporting SYTAR 2026 and the broader yoga therapy community.

🎥 You can also explore the full SYTAR 2026 Presenter Series on YouTube, where all conversations are now available in one playlist: https://buff.ly/662JDZq