Changa Bell created the Black Male Yoga Initiative in 2015 to create welcoming spaces to practice yoga, and provide avenues for preventative health.
During a recent conversation, he talked about how yoga can serve as a “stress intervention,” and play a role in reversing the effects of health conditions like hypertension and diabetes. “It can accentuate spirituality in ways that are unmatched,” he said.
Being a yoga teacher himself, Bell realized, “I’ve got to get on a soap box and announce what I know – not in a judgmental form or wagging my finger saying you’ve got to do this, but just, ‘Hey this is how it serves me. This is the science of it, maybe you want to do it. Here’s a welcoming space.'”
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