Yoga for Black Women 🧘🏽♀️
How Black Women Use Yoga as a Tool for Healing
Studies prove that anxiety, stress, depression, heart disease, and other
ailments affect Black people disproportionately compared to other ethnic
groups, but the statistics rise alarmingly when it comes to the health of
Black women. Because of the many external and internal social
stressors—racism, sexism, socio-economic issues—Black women do not have
space to accurately practice self-care in a way that is safe and
fulfilling for them.
Now with wellness becoming a trillion-dollar
industry, many Black women have come to create spaces that are inclusive
and safe, particularly when it comes to yoga. There are trap yoga studios,
hip-hop yoga studios, and platforms that cater to women of color. There is
a new generation of Black women who are taking the lessons from the women
before them and redefining their ideas of wellness in innovative ways. But
this isn’t a new phenomenon; there is a reason why Black women have been
increasingly turning to yoga since its popular emergence in the 1970s.