Lotus in the Mud: Blackness, Decolonizing Yoga and Tai Chi and My Teaching Practice

By Dr. Herukhuti I started learning yoga, pranayama, tai chi chuan and chi kung when I was 14. Our school, the Temple of the White and Gold Lotus, Shrine of Amen-Ra, was housed in the parlor floor of a pre-gentrification, Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone that our teacher had reclaimed from abandonment by squatting in it with his family. The tightly-woven,ContinueContinue reading “Lotus in the Mud: Blackness, Decolonizing Yoga and Tai Chi and My Teaching Practice”