Part of the Light Days series presented by Progress Theatre
"Dark Days," for theatre-makers, are days when there is no performance, event or rehearsal in a theatre--hence, when a theatre is "dark." Progress Theatre aims to share our theatre time with communities by turning our "dark days" into Light Days. PT's Light Days present free and discounted programs featuring fellow artists and organizations in community-nurturing, bridge-building, consciousness-raising, advocacy-inducing, healing-centric artistic events.
Enter Faith: Yoga is a two-week offering of free, yoga classes to encourage unity by celebrating diversity, promoting solidarity and unity, and joining hearts for healing and peace. Pre-registration is recommended. Space is limited.
Classes offered are in the vinyasa style of yoga, often called “flow” due to its style of continuous movement from one posture to the next. Vinyasa means “to link.” Postures are linked one to the next with breath connected to all movement at a steady pace.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an all-level class that will offer some modifications for beginners and a strong practice for intermmediates. This is not an introductory Yoga class. However, some newcomers and beginners are able to participate comfortably. This class is not recommended for pregnant women, those with recent injuries, chronic pain, serious illness or any mobility concerns. All participants are required to sign a liability waiver and release form.
About Enter Faith
Enter Faith is a service project that engages spiritual diversity through multi-faith workshops, dialogues, wellness classes and inclusive artistic and community events that promote pluralism, cross-community exchange, understanding, healing and peace. Through opening up a space where "faith can enter" as the common ground for people across religious practices and with no religious practice, Enter Faith initiates from the belief that positive social change begins by cultivating lasting relationships between communities. Past Enter Faith programs in Houston have included workshops at Rice University's Boniuk Center, Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston and free yoga classes throughout the city. To learn more, visit: enterfaith.org.
About Progress Theatre
Founded by Houston native, Cristal Chanelle Truscott, Progress Theatre [PT] is a nationally and internationally-touring ensemble committed to using theatre as anti-racism engagement to encourage social consciousness, cross-community dialogue, healing and cultural awareness. Since 2000, PT has toured dynamic, original performances which Cristal has branded, Neo-Spirituals--a’capella musicals with a fusion of styles from Negro Spirituals to the Blues, Jazz, NeoSoul, R&B, hip-hop and spoken word. PT considers all of our initiatives as community-engaged, community-invested and community-necessitated. We are, at once, performers/creators of ensemble-driven theatre works, presenters and supporters of artists who share our mission and creative collaborators with the communities we serve. By engaging various communities onstage and off, PT strives to change the make-up of average theatergoers, encouraging audiences diverse in race, age/generation and spiritual background. The dream and intention of PT’s work is to explore the most compelling, honest, unflinching ways of approaching questions of humanity, and the social concerns and insights of our times inclusive of race, class, gender and spiritual identity— in the service of unity through diversity, cross-community healing and understanding. To learn more, visit: www.ProgressTheatre.com.