Robin Turner (she/her)

I began practicing yoga and meditation while living in Oakland, California and working on my doctorate in 2006. A community acupuncturist suggested yoga to address the chronic pain/injury that led me to leave capoeira, and it helped. Activist friends connected me to the new, deliberately and radically inclusive East Bay Meditation Center where I found community in the People of Color and Alphabet Sanghas, began establishing a consistent meditation practice, and participated in day-long and multiday retreats at EBMC and elsewhere. I continued learning  from different teachers, traditions, and forms when I moved to Indianapolis in 2009 and completed yoga teacher training with Nikki Myers and Rolf Gates in 2020. I first learned of Indy Community Yoga in 2023, dropped in on some morning meditations, and quickly became a regularly at the Queer and Trans practice.  ICY’s commitment to access, inclusion, community care, and justice are really important to me. I’m happy to contribute to practicing these values in community while we work towards collective liberation.