Making access part of the practice
Brazilian teacher Rê Mozzini argues that local teacher training and free classes belong in the conversation about sustainability.
In a November 4 Personare essay republished by Terra, yoga teacher Rê Mozzini asks who can actually reach the practice. Her argument connects sustainability with access, local teaching and the conditions of everyday life.
An argument from a teacher’s work
Mozzini describes projects through Yoganaya and Instituto MUDE that provide free classes and train teachers in communities facing social vulnerability. She presents local teachers as people who can carry practice back into their own neighborhoods. These are her account of the projects, rather than independently measured outcomes.
The essay also draws a clear boundary: self-knowledge does not replace social justice, adequate living conditions or basic rights. That matters when personal practice is described as an answer to problems with structural causes.
Published ahead of her planned November 7 free class at São Paulo’s Centro Cultural São Paulo, the essay offers a perspective on access. For a teaching community, it raises a concrete question: who has the time, resources and nearby support to participate, and who remains outside the invitation?
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