Awaken your body’s natural energy flow and tap in with this soulful fusion of street and traditional Afro dances, Kemetic (Smai Tawi) and Vinyasa yoga, and calisthenics - featuring our signature Kundalini Whine™ in each of our 4 Online Class Formats. Soulful dance moves weave into creative yoga sequences, integrating aboriginal movement with balancing and core conditioning for all yoga & fitness levels. We Kundalini Whine™ within certain yoga poses to stimulate your body’s natural flow of energy, help release stored trauma, and wake up the senses. Flow across the Diaspora to the sounds of Afrobeats, NeoSoul, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, AfroCuban, Dembow, Brazilian Funk, drumming, and other Afrocentric rhythms. Whether you’re looking for a spark of transformation, ancestral healing, or want to level up as a yogi, you’ll connect on a deeper, more intrinsic level with your roots through this movement based practice that both challenges and empowers you to be your highest self. ABOUT THE NAME:
Derived from the words aphrodisia - the ancient Grecian festival of love and beauty inspired by the Egyptian goddesses Hathor and Isis - and afro, meaning of African and Diaspora people and culture. Each Afrodisia offering is a rhythmic, celebratory journey inward that inspires self-love, healing, and ancestral-cultural connection through movements originating from African and Aboriginal cultures. ABOUT YOGA:
You might be familiar with Yoga as coming from the Vedic culture of the Indian subcontinent, however archaeological excavations and the science of human migration show that yoga as we know it was first recorded in Egypt near the year 1500 B.C. - at least 1300 years before yoga developed in India through Patanjali. This practice honors the Kemetic (Egyptian) origins of yoga - known as Smai Tawi - as well as the lineages that were developed long afterward. We also honor recent developments in the science of movement in order to maintain safety for all and to encourage practitioners to find ways into each posture that works for their own body’s needs, which is informed by individual progress and ability. We honor each practitioner’s needs while also challenging the notions each one may carry within in order to help uncover the highest self. Yoga is a holistic practice that involves updating one’s lifestyle in addition to the physical asana practice we commonly see as yoga. We honor the totality of yoga, while recognizing that Afrodisia Yoga is an active, physical practice based in asana (postures) that help to clear physical and emotional/mental knots and helps open the path towards a more holistic lifestyle both on and off the mat. Welcome to Afrodisia Yoga, a revolution of authenticity, self-love, ancestral healing, and inner joy.
