Upcoming classes & events
Heated Trap Yoga
We heat the room to balmy 82 degrees, just enough to make it comfortable. Then move and sweat to a curated hip-hop playlist that makes you move. SuggesTed donation $25. 3851 Market street
UBUNTU - Compassion towards humanity
Ubuntu
Chocolate Buddha Wellness offers purpose within & harmony thoughout. Our mission is to find our purpose - knowing our purpose leads to harmony. Asana, pranayama, and meditations are the processes we use to reveal the truest self. A dope playlist helps with the transitions!
Bio
Yoga for Everybody!
Credentials:
- Completed 200hr Vinyasa yoga teacher training with Jillian Gilkbarg of the ParaYoga lineage
- Completed 200hr Power yoga teacher training with Jonathan Rickert power yoga
- Completed 200hr Psychotherapeutic yoga teacher training with The "LISPY school"
- Completed trauma based yoga training with the "Art of Yoga Project"
- Certified Holistic Nutritionist at Bauman College, a science-based nutrition curriculum focused on whole-foods nutrition
- Studied Alignment with Ben Thomas Senior certified Iyengar yoga teacher of Yogacharya, Dr. B.K.S. Iyengar
- Tantra Yoga and The Path of Beauty and Bliss with Rod Stryker of ParaYoga
- Sutra philosophy with Sanskrit scholar Anirudh Shastri
Accomplishments:
- Wellness Program Director for "Create the Space"
- Founder of Barbershop yoga (trauma reduction yoga and book club for Black men & boys)
- Help develop curriculum for "Art of Yoga Project" trauma-based yoga for marginalized youth
- Lead yoga classes for refugees in Stuttgart Germany for 6 months (Brazil forRefugees/Integration Through Art Program)
- Fitkids.org Yoga Ambassador
- Led yoga classes for students at Frick middle school
- Led yoga classes for students at Dewey Academy
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Trimming Our Trauma
Yoga, Tai-chi, Primal movement, and Sound bowl healing for Black men and boys
Barbershop Yoga Flying High
Brothers practicing together in downtown Oakland
Ubuntu
The Chocolate Buddha mission is to make yoga more accessible to Black males. We aspire to provide a cultural experience where healing, brotherhood, community, and compassion towards humanity can be fostered and disseminated back into their communities.
Videos & Pics
Corporate Classes
Corporate Classes
Corporate Classes
Next level athletics! Yoga prevents injuries, increases focus, strengthens core, and plyability!
Private Classes
Corporate Classes
Corporate Classes
Together we plan reachable goals Intelligent personalized instructions, and patience's
Group Classes
Corporate Classes
Barbershop Yoga
Team building, stress reduction, rejuvenation of spirit, meditation
Barbershop Yoga
Yoga at High School Wellness Ctr.
Barbershop Yoga
2me4u highlights Barbershop Yoga-yoga design for Black men & boys, Saturdays 9:15am - 11:15am PST.
Yoga at High School Wellness Ctr.
Yoga at High School Wellness Ctr.
Yoga at High School Wellness Ctr.
Did you know that by the age of 14, fifty percent of young people have had some impact or experience around mental health and wellness?
Ambassadorship/Partnership
Black Boys OM Exists to Inspire Wellness by creating a connected community of Black Leaders who are already using the tools of Yoga and Mindfulness to create positive and lasting change in their local communities.
CREATE THE SPACE is a marketplace and community that centers Black male health. We utilize the power of shared vulnerability to encourage and facilitate healing, connection, and growth.
Our collective of Black clinicians, coaches, and professionals exists to inspire healing through one-on-one coaching, group therapy, and consulting services.
Our mission is to lead at-risk, exploited and incarcerated youth toward accountability to self, others, and community by providing practical tools to effect behavioral change. We send specially trained yoga teachers, art therapists, creative arts and writing educators into facilities to deliver our mindfulness-based curriculum
Black to Yoga exists to foster greater health and wellness in our communities by increasing access to the transformational power of yoga for Black people, particularly those of the Afrikan Diaspora.
We seek to develop a deeper representation of Black yogis within the larger yoga community, both as teachers as well as students.