Woo-Woo Crew

HEY, FRIENDS!


My name is Bailey (she/they), and I am currently rooted in Brooklyn, NY on unceded Munsee Lenape land, with my loving partner & pup.

I am: a certified yoga teacher, creative entrepreneur, professional photographer, artist (check out my PERSONAL WORK & ART PRINTS), community organizer & activist, recovering perfectionist, queer feminist empath committed to making the world better than how I found it.

I started the Woo-Woo Crew as a space for womxn, queer, & non-binary folks to come home to our bodies, connect to each other & the natural world of which we are a part, in order to dismantle systems of oppression we carry within ourselves.

My Approach to Yoga

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Want to see if my classes would be a good fit for you?

Keep a look out for yoga classes held over Zoom in the coming months!

On being a white person teaching yoga:

I practiced yoga for 15 years before it occurred to me to teach it. I felt a profound benefit from my personal yoga practice emotionally, mentally, & physically, but I never felt I had the depth of knowledge or authority to teach something that was from a completely different culture than my own, a culture that historically has been colonized by people who look like me.

But when I attended my first yoga retreat in Feb 2024, my thinking began to shift. The sense of community and transformation I felt by fully immersing myself in intentional, introspective practice alongside others was something I knew I needed to chase for the rest of my life. As I dug into my own research and moral questions, I came to the conclusion (for now) that there is unfortunately no way to teach yoga in the body that I am, and NOT appropriate Indian culture. The best I can do is inform myself of yoga’s roots, always be learning and questioning, do the teachings justice, and hope that the benefit I am able to add to my students’ lives through sharing these practices is greater than the potential harm I would cause.

If you’re interested in these topics, here’s some recommended reading:

Embrace Yoga's Roots: Courageous Ways to Deepen Your Yoga Practice, by Susanna Barkataki

A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation, By Jacoby Ballard

What’s the “Woo?”

If you know, you know. But if you don’t:

  • Unseen things we know/feel, but cannot fully explain.

  • Examples of practices that can be considered “woo-woo" : magic, tarot cards, “alternative medicine”, psychics, mediums, witchcraft, ancestor work, dream analysis, psychedelics, energy therapies like Reiki, even meditation & yoga.

  • The term is unfortunately dismissive of these therapeutic modalities, (mainly practiced by womxn, queer, Black, Indigenous, & People of Color), considered to be based on false beliefs, imaginary things, or pseudoscience since they aren’t backed up by western scientific knowledge or “reason.”

  • The fear of these practices has been weaponized by the patriarchy for centuries to control & disempower those most vulnerable in society, and push us away from our intuitive creative natures. (Witchcraft only became villified when property began to be privatized and widowed old women had something of value to be taken.)

    With the Woo-Woo Crew, I’m determined to reclaim the term by proving (with empirical evidence!) the real tangible felt effects of community, sharing, introspection, creativity, healing, self-care, exploration, spirituality, catharsis, movement, and transcendence.

    Help me on my journey to take back our power & give validity to the “Woo!”

Kind words from the Crew:

What we’re about:

〰️ curiosity

〰️ openness

〰️ learning to truly love ourselves

〰️ listening to & trusting our bodies

〰️ making ourselves whole

〰️ discover who we are at our core

〰️ nurturing our natural tendencies & gifts

〰️ leaning into our fullest potential in this life-time

〰️ acceptance

〰️ feeling into our inner spirit & our connection to the universe

〰️ gratitude

〰️ presense

〰️ connecting with our ancestors

〰️ seeing ourselves as PART of the natural world- not separate from it

〰️ becoming responsible stewards of Mother Earth

〰️ healing

〰️ centering

〰️ feeling grounded

〰️ active listening

〰️ compassion

〰️ giving back

〰️ letting go of self-limiting beliefs

〰️ humility

〰️ surrender

〰️ standing up for what’s right

〰️ life-long learning

〰️ community

〰️ being our full authentic selves

〰️ inspiring others to do the same

〰️ advocating for those who can’t for themselves

〰️ acknowledging change is the only constant

〰️ embracing the unknown

〰️ challenging ourselves

〰️ making the world better in small acts every day

〰️ valuing ourselves

〰️ taking up space

〰️ getting out of our own way

〰️ reciprocity

Join the Crew on Instagram: @woo_woo_crew

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