04/29/2026
On Friday May 1st, International Workers’ Day, over five hundred organizations from across the country, including fifty chapters and organizations in Seattle, are calling for No Work, No School, No Shopping, demanding Workers, Not Billionaires; Community, Not I.C.E.; Services, Not War. Details can be found at seattlemayday.org. In solidarity with this national day of action, we are making drop-ins free for all of our classes.
We would also like to mention some local organizations that you might consider donating to on May Day. Super Familia King County, Global Solidarity Network Seattle, and South King County & Eastside Mutual Aid organize mutual aid for local immigrant families who need help with things like rent. Global Solidarity Network Seattle is actually having a mutual aid pop-up on May 1st from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Lake City Way. Wash Masks organizes mutual aid for migrant and indigenous farmworkers. And La Resistencia is a grassroots, undocumented-led movement working to end the detention of immigrants, stop deportations, and shut down the Northwest Detention Center.
As yoga practitioners living in the world, it is important that we fight against injustice. In Chapter 2 of the Bahagavad Gītā, Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna that, as a warrior, it is his duty to defend righteousness, that it is a sin to refuse to fight in a righteous war, and that to perform his duty without attachment to success or failure is the very definition of yoga. On one side, we have the U.S., billionaires, corporations, I.C.E.; on the other, we have exploited nations, within and beyond our borders, exploited workers, exploited immigrants. It should be clear which side we stand on.
