smitty buckler is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS) - Practice School of Magic. They have been practicing yoga since they were a child but specifically after an on the job injury, in 1996, started causing chronic pain. Since then they have been studying the body and healing arts.
For over 20 years smitty has been facilitating learning experiences around social justice, anti-oppression, healing justice and body movement. They are also a service worker to houseless populations specifically those who are struggling with substance and/or mental health, stigmatized drug users, sex worker and PLWH. When they are not organizing, servicing, facilitating, or stage tech-ing at a theatre they make strange art that usually involves puppets, music, dance and story.