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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

There is no denying the growing popularity of yoga. With more than 300 million participants worldwide, its integration of mind, body, and soul has created its unique lane in the fitness sector. The ...

BRATTLEBORO — Master Senegalese dancer and teacher Caro Diallo, who teaches his unique and elegant style of African dance, is back in the area to teach until early October. For 10 years he was the ...

Yoga’s implementation in rural schools has dramatically increased the pass rate, rising from under 50% to a perfect 100%. This was shared by Sivananda World Peace Foundation President Ishwar ...

Luxury safari lodges and wellness retreats across Africa are increasingly combining wildlife encounters with restorative practices such as yoga, meditation, and spa therapies. From Kenya’s Maasai Mara ...

In the tiny Virginia town of soybean fields and no stoplights where Kimberly Matthews-Williams grew up, her Black church was family, and that felt really good — on Sundays. On her own later, as a ...

There has been a lot of debate about yoga. Is it just good exercise or does it have an impact on the brain that can be used as part of a therapeutic program for treating disorders like addiction?

Local fitness studio FIT House welcomes an international yoga program of hope and inspiration Wednesday through Saturday, Nov. 20-23. The Africa Yoga Project has chosen FIT House as its final North ...

A new study published in the academic journal PLOS ONE suggests that yoga is a viable way to improve the physical and cognitive faculties necessary for maintaining long-term weight loss, even if it ...