Community is a Practice

Who I am

I’m Shrotriyee Jacque—an educator, systems designer, and community builder based in Oakland.

My work explores how people learn, gather, and become more capable together.

Many of the questions I care about grew through years of learning with yoga and carrying its ideas into other spaces—not primarily as movement, but as a living tradition concerned with attention, ethics, embodiment, liberation, and relationship.

That practice changed how I understand community.

It taught me that people do not change through ideas alone.

We change through repeated ways of relating:

to our bodies,
to one another,
to meaning,
to memory,
to the conditions around us.

One framework that continues to shape my work is the koshas: a way of understanding human experience as layered and interconnected—physical, energetic, emotional, intellectual, and relational dimensions that cannot be meaningfully separated.

That orientation appears throughout my work.

In classrooms.
In curriculum.
In gatherings.
In community infrastructure.

For several years, educational spaces became places to explore many of the questions I was carrying from education, yoga, and community.

I became increasingly interested in what happens when people are invited to study the worlds they already inhabit rather than search for predetermined answers.

What is needed here?
What do people already know?
What patterns become visible when we pay attention together?

Over time, I became less interested in reproducing the status quo and more interested in helping people become investigators of their own environments and communities.

That shift continues to shape how I think about learning, belonging, and collective life.

Part of that work now takes many forms.

Teaching.
Community yoga.
Gatherings.
Local civic life.
Organizing.
Experiments in how people learn to live together.

I’m interested in creating spaces where people can reconnect with themselves, each other, and the worlds they want to inhabit—not through performance, scarcity, or expertise, but through practice.

This site is a catalog of those practices and the worlds they make possible.