EYE AM YOGA BLOG

Join us on June 27th for Yoga Fun for the whole family and a great day of family activities!
I will be teaching yoga at 12:30-1:00pm for Youth and 1:00-1:30om for Adults.

Learn: Stress-Free Yoga Postures
Children’s Yoga/Animal Poses
Breathing
Meditations & Chants

Anyone who attends the yoga classes at the Family,Culture and Lifestyle Show will get a discount card to Saturday Yoga Classes!

It will be great to see you there!
For more details on the Family,Culture and Lifestyle Show Click Here

The Belly Dance and Yoga Event passed in June 6th. All of us sisters had a ball with shaking our hips with Chemagne and meditating and stretching with me!

The Chai Tea and refreshments were Wonder-Full! We are looking forward to another BellyYoga Event in the Fall.

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What image comes to mind when you hear the word yoga? Do you think of an Indian person on a mountain? Do you see a woman or a man?Do you think of images of people of Afrikan descent doing yoga?

The truth is that yoga has less exposure and images of black people doing yoga. Not only do we see a small amount of black faces in yoga, but we see even less images of men.Why is this

On one end, I was skeptical as to whether it was the media short handing exposure to people of Afrikan descent who practice yoga in the west. Then again, I thought about how many people do I know in the black community that practice yoga diligently and the amount is slim. Within this slim amount is an even smaller number of men who practice yoga.

My observation is that many black people do not know the connection of yoga to black culture.Many do not know that the ancient Indians who preserved Yoga in India were descendants of Afrika. The other reason is that the media portrayal of yoga has left little room for black men to see how they fit in to the practice of yoga since they are not a woman or an Indian man on a mountain. This has created a stigma about yoga. It has blocked many black men from practicing Yoga even if they have heard so great things about it.They are more likely to encourage a black woman to practice it then themselves.

The great thing is that there are black men though that have stepped out of the box and raised their spirit, mind,soul and body with Yoga.With some digging, I found black men who are celebrities and represent black faces for yoga.I’m soooo excited

So without further ado, here’s a great list of popular black yogis:

Russel Simmons

Ricky Williams

Forest Whitaker

Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Evander Holyfield

I am now teaching Yoga and Black Culture for Youth@West Hill Collegiate on Fridays.
The age focus is 16-18 and it’s $5/class.We will love to see more youth come out!
Contact me for more details.

Enter the EYE AM YOGA contest and you can win free weekly Yoga Classes on Saturdays for a whole month.
Yoga Classes are in Toronto,Canada
There will be 5 winners and you can be one of them!
To enter the contest e-mail info@eyeamyoga.com with the subject “CONTEST”
Give you name and phone number in the e-amil.
The contest ends May 30th
Good Luck!