Jacoby Ballard is a social justice educator, poet, yoga teacher, and papa. With 25 years of experience at the nexus of justice, embodiment, and contemplative practice, he leads workshops, retreats, and has been an artist-in-residence on dozens of college campuses. He is a co-founder of Third Root Community Health Center which operated in Brooklyn for 13 years, currently serves as the Board President of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and is the author of A Queer Dharma: Yoga and Meditations for Liberation. He teaches a virtual queer and trans-centered prenatal and postnatal yoga class that gives parents and families the tools and community that they need to be grounded, creative, and resourced. Jacoby has taught Queer & Trans Yoga since 2006, and regularly offers retreats for queer communities. His current book project focuses on the relationship and tension between internal practices of forgiveness and external calls for accountability, and the internal work we must do to grow a large, cohesive, connected, powerful movement in these times. Find more at jacobyballard.net or follow him on Instagram.
