Sinikiwe Dhliwayo created Naaya after entering yoga classes that lacked diversity. She created Naaya to bring accessible and affordable classes to people of color.
For so long, mainstream media has fed us an image of what a “yogi” is supposed to be—a skinny, athletic, affluent white woman dressed in head-to-toe Lululemon. Just do a Google image search of “yoga” and count how many people of color you see .Like many other women of color, I've stayed away from the yoga community out of fear of feeling like “the other” and occupying spaces that were not made for us or by us.
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