The story began in Africa. Paige Elenson, a native New Yorker, spied African acrobats doing crazy handstands. She joined in. Elenson, who practices an acrobatic brand of yoga, later started Africa ...

As a longtime yoga practitioner, Lisa Brown had purchased yoga mats for many years but not one of them had ever reflected the actual African heritage of the practice of yoga. Eventually, the irony of ...

Laura Tropea-Papenhagen has a corporate job as an attorney in Farmington Hills and is planning to go to Africa to teach yoga next month in an extraordinary journey that began after she injured her ...

I had practiced yoga for more than 10 years before getting serious. What changed? For the first time, I had a black teacher who blended African music, mantra and meditation into the practice. The ...

For most travelers, a Kenyan safari involves days of patiently waiting for a glimpse of lions, elephants, or an elusive leopard hiding in the bush. For native New Yorker Paige Elenson, a 2006 family ...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Knoxville has been selected for a yoga tour that helps create opportunities for youth in Africa. Africa Yoga Project is offering several different events at their partner’s studios, ...

From Black Enterprise: Leslie Salmon Jones is equal parts passion and Zen. That dichotomy is present not only in her personality but in her yoga business, Afro-Flow Yoga – a fusion of enthusiastic ...

The Muhammad Ali Center partnered with 502 Power Yoga for the second annual Yoga Mala for Africa on Saturday.Proceeds from the event benefited Muhmmad Ali Center and the Africa Yoga Project.Africa ...

The loft at Fire vibrated with the sound and energy emanating from African drums and dancers moving to the fast-paced rhythms, each making the motions her own and each contributing a unique ...

The popularity of yoga has grown tremendously in the past decade. More than 10% of U.S. adults have practiced yoga at some point in their lives. Yoga practitioners spend on average US$90 a month, and ...

WEBVTT YOGA ORIGINATED IN ANCIENT INDIA...BUT HAS SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD... INCLUDING AFRICA. A NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION IS TEACHING THE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE THERE. TWO TEACHERS FROM ...

There is something unique about Mali, a vast country in West Africa, where the common people show tremendous love for various aspects of Indian culture, including music and dance. One can sense the ...