This episode is supported by The Class a cathartic workout experience that guides you to strengthen the body and notice the mind to restore balance. The listeners of The Werk Podcast are welcome to try The Class for ONE MONTH FREE. Click the link in the show notes.

Soeuraya Wilson is a teacher of The Class. She also lends her experience to The Class's teacher training and their in-house podcast. Soeuraya’s class is described as a returning to the self. You will move through resistance, create contraction, and feel the release in expression as you engage in dialogue with your body and mind. Soeuraya's class is a direct reflection of how she uses her social media platform for her activism.

• Soeuraya shares her origins story, her ancestral lineage, and how that shaped her worldview. 
• Her journey towards working in the wellness industry and the circumstances that led to her teaching at Soul Cycle, a boutique cycling studio in NYC.
• Her experience as a multi-racial woman living and working in an industry that is not represented by BIPOC. 
• The need for the wellness and fitness industries to support the mental, emotional, and physical health of BIPOC communities.
• How she found purpose through teaching. 
• When a parent company acquires a boutique business and how that changes the corporate culture. 
• The lack of care that many group fitness instructors experience, particularly BIPOC, when social challenges arise and when corporations are asked to take a stand.
• How she found herself standing against a big corporation who she felt didn’t provide care and compassion for its employees during the pandemic nor during the BLM resurgence.
• How we as consumers can protest effectively through the power of choice in friends, in how we spend our money, and through the conversations, we choose to have. 
• How many boutique brands can create an abundant and luxurious experience that many of their employees don’t have access to.
• How The Class stepped up in the wake of being called in and lost some of their original clientele in the process.
• How we can change the system from the inside.
• The steps that The Class is taking towards being more inclusive. 
• Wellness versus Well-being 

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