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When It’s OK to have your Back Against the Wall
There is no shame using a wall and other methods of support to bring ease and evolution to our yoga practice. This piece describes the way we can welcome support in our yoga and our life.
The Taboo of Black Hips in Yoga
This is also a video essay click here to view.
African hip rhythms have incredible emotional, physical and spiritual benefits that are largely unreferenced in the modern development of yoga. Instead they are hyper-sexualised in the media with descriptions like booty shaking and gyrating that ensure our raclalised hips have no place in respectable yoga, unless brokered by white bodies.
Strong Black Women don’t bruise, don’t cry, don’t die?
The travesty of anti-black racism is that Black Women are less likely to receive help when reporting domestic abuse. We are perceived to have superhuman strength, even when our lives are at risk and we are in need of protection. NOTE this piece contains upsetting information.
