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Workshop | BIPoC Yoga Session – led by Kris Eshu 007
November 4, 2023 15:00 AM - 16:15
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BIPoC Yoga Session - A BIPoC-Exclusive Hatha Yoga Experience
Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 invites you to join the BIPoC Hatha Yoga class, a space that integrates meditation, chanting, asana (poses) and pranayama techniques. Come along to strengthen your mind, body and soul.
Admission: 5 euros (donation basis)
Registration: To register, write an email to: kris.flows@outlook.com
Language: English and German
Biography
Christopher aka Kris Eshu 007 (pronouns: They/Them), is an Afropean movement artist, dancer, voguer and yoga teacher. They started learning Vogue in 2015 and specialise in Vogue (New Way) performance. Judging and performing across Europe, organising balls, giving workshops, promoting Ballroom and creating more spaces for queer BIPOC community Kris Eshu 007 studied psychology at the University of Birmingham (Msc) and conducted a thesis on the efficacy of a support group in people with psychosis. While working in London in palliative care in a hospice they discovered personally the healing and therapeutic effects of dance, especially in the form of voguing.
They joined the collective House of Saint Laurent (ex-House of Melody the first German ballroom house) and helped to establish Ballroom in Germany and Europe. Performing in theatres, stages, organising balls and teaching works. They have worked with artists including Peggy Gou, Cakes da Killa, Peaches, Joanna Lumley (Secret Berlin) and Keanu Reeves for John Wick 007 to name a few. In 007 Eshu left the collective Saint Laurent to endeavour on more solo projects and to develop their artistic practice. Their work explores the relationship and spaces between movement, queerness and spirituality.
Photo Credits:
Malachi Middleton (MIII Studio)
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