Weaving Threads of Collective Liberation: Intercultural Wisdom Among Indigenous and South Asian Women in the Indigenous Yoga Collective
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Abstract
This article explores the transformative journey of the Indigenous Yoga Collective (IYC) as a case study integrating a decolonial healing praxis through yoga with Indigenous and South Asian women. The IYC emerged from the First Nations Women’s Yoga Initiative (FNWYI), an 80-hour trauma-informed yoga training designed to foster community connection, cultural reclamation, and collective healing for First Nations peoples. Rooted in a culturally responsive framework, the IYC addresses the shared traumas of colonial oppression while promoting the reconnection of body, mind, spirit, and land. The IYC exemplifies individual and collective healing while fostering cross-cultural solidarity. By centering South Asian voices and Indigenous traditions, the collective provides a model for decolonial wellness frameworks that resist cultural commodification and build reciprocal relationships. Moving forward, the IYC seeks to deepen its impact by co-creating inclusive, accessible programs that honor the rich spiritual traditions of yoga and Indigenous practices while addressing systemic and intergenerational trauma.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".