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Since 1926, when Black History Month began as Negro History Week, the main target has been on events and performances celebrating Black life and culture. Today, a growing variety of Black yoga teachers and organizations are bringing yoga to the party.

Some BHM yoga programs are designed to be fun–with an excellent dose of swag. Take the Black History Month Yoga Experience on the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). Earlier this month, the fashionable and contemporary art museum held a yoga session set to a playlist of songs, from Billie Holiday to Beyoncé, that “created unity and ignited change in our nation and world,” in response to PAMM’s website. After class, participants listened to live music, toured exhibits, dabbled in art-making activities, and mingled at joyful hour.

But Black yoga teachers are leaning into the healing advantages of the practice as well. They are saying it’s needed.

“There are such a lot of things that may get you down each and day by day. There appears to be this trauma cycle that happens over and once again,” says Chandra Fowler, owner of Sanskrit Moon in Hapeville, Georgia. “It is crucial to keep in mind that we’re resilient, that we’re powerful, that we’re descendants from individuals who survived the insurmountable….It’s all about celebrating the ability and resilience that lives in your DNA.”

Fowler says her studio, just west of Atlanta, is all the time a spot of refuge for Black folks and other marginalized people, in addition to allies. But due to current social climate, she desired to do something special for Black History Month. This 12 months, she joins a lot of yoga communities across the country which might be doing the identical.  They’re offering special practices and events focused on the needs of Black individuals who need to get into the spirit of the month.

“Black History Month could be all 12 months long. We will all the time rejoice who we’re in our skin. It shouldn’t be, you already know, a sideline,” says Fowler. “I would like you to take what we’re experiencing together on this collective, supportive environment into your life each and day by day.”

Here’s a sampling of Black History Month events that feature yoga practice.

Celebrating in a Supportive Environment

Restorative Yoga for Ancestor Healing

Formed in 2020, Yoga Jubilee is devoted to reworking social tension into positive cultural change through yoga and other embodied and indigenous practices. Through its nationwide collective of BIPOC yoga instructors and their allies, Yoga Jubilee offers a three-part virtual Restorative Yoga for Ancestral Healing series specializing in Black history, trauma recovery, and the “exploration of empowering narratives for reconnection with forebearers.”

Also throughout the month of February, the collective is offering free access to a compilation of yoga videos from greater than 40 Black instructors of their digital library titled, “I Am Black History.”
Sundays, February 12, 19, 26, at Yoga Jubilee

Flow to Have fun Black History Month

Each of CorePower’s 220 locations will include free and donation-based classes to commemorate Black History Month the week of February 19. On February 21, proceeds from live classes might be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a non-profit organization that works to finish inequity within the justice system. Their commitment to “elevate Black voices” features a scholarship program for people of color who need to take part in CorePower’s teacher training program and Black-owned brands featured on their online shop site year-round.
Starting Sunday, February 19 at CorePower Yoga

Mindful Mondays with Great Energy Group: Black History Month Yoga

The Eaton–a hip hybrid hotel and workspace in Washington, DC–is all the time a vibe. They often offer weekly wellness-centered classes including a Meditation and Music Medicine Sound Bath, trauma-sensitive yoga, and R&B yoga.

Especially for BHM, Eaton’s Wellness Director Tara Aura and Washington’s Great Energy Group curated a mindfulness series that integrates movement with the music of the African diaspora. You may catch a rhythmic, restorative yoga session set to reggae, Afrobeat, house, and hip hop.
Monday, February 20 & 27 at Eaton Workshop

Black History Prosperity Market

The California African American Museum (CAAM)
Spend the day in L.A.’s Black museum is offering yoga, a gaggle meditation, and sound bath as a part of its Black History Month Prosperity Market, a pop-up that features Black farmers, chefs, and entrepreneurs. After your hour-long yoga flow, you may browse the marketplace for fresh produce and handcrafted artisan goods, watch cooking demonstrations, and hearken to music.
Saturday, February 25 at The California African American Museum (CAAM)

Celebrating the Great thing about Blackness

A free yoga class “celebrating the ability, strength and creativity of black people” at Sanskrit Moon Yoga Center offers greater than asana. The practice includes journaling and guided meditation as well. The goal is to remove tools for self-care and stress management that could be used all year long.
Saturday, February 25 at Sanskrit Moon Yoga Center