HereNowYoga strongly supports having more BIPOC leaders in yoga spaces. We do not currently have a limit on the number of these scholarships available and there is no qualification process. Simply check that you are BIPOC on the teacher training application. We would love to have you join our program beginning March 31st, 2022.
***Please note that there is an additional $300 savings if you pay in full by the start of the program, March 31st.***
“In the U.S., yoga has become increasingly popular in recent years. Although heavily westernized and white-washed, yoga’s origins not only trace back to India, but this sacred practice has African roots. For centuries, Black people have faced marginalization, discrimination, and social injustice in the U.S. The unjustified deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless other Black lives have created a level of racial and social trauma that few other communities have experienced.
Coupled with the physical, mental, financial, and social disparities that exist in the Black community, a collective healing is needed. Many people are drawn to a yoga mat as a means to address imbalance or heal trauma experienced in their lives.
Although in the U.S., yoga has the reputation of attracting college-educated, white populations and can be exclusionary to BIPOC communities, yoga has become increasingly popular among Blacks with the growth of Afrocentric yoga (i.e., focusing on Black or African culture), establishment of Black yoga organizations (i.e., Black Yoga Teachers Alliance), and expansion of social media presence of Black yoga practitioners.”
Source: https://innovation.umn.edu/scholar-spotlight/yoga-in-the-black-community/
If you are a BIPOC in Birmingham, Alabama and have a desire to deepen your practice and study of yoga asana and philosophy— please consider our program that will establish your 200 hour Yoga Alliance certification.
