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 ...

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, ...

Editor's note: Catherine Cook-Cottone consults for the Africa Yoga Project and received funding from UNICEF. Yoga is a 5,000-year-old physical mind and body practice. Most present day practices share ...

After my last weekend of yoga teacher training, a friend asked me at dinner, “Why do you do yoga? So you can learn to do what, headstands?” Why do people do yoga? More than 90% of people who come to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My own personal fascination with yoga dates back multiple decades to a daily, individualized routine at the Yogic Health Center in Mumbai during a gap year in my early 20s. It seems quite fitting that ...

Yoga is a 5,000-year-old physical mind and body practice. Most present day practices share some variation of yoga poses (asana), breathing exercises (pranayama), relaxation and meditation. Research ...