Black Voices In Wellness
Here are some excellent resources for Black voices with supportive expertise in mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, healing, yoga, transformation and renewal, and general health and wellness.
Justin Michael Williams
Justin Michael Williams is a meditation teacher, speaker, musician and author. His book Stay Woke: A Meditation Guide For The Rest Of Us acknowledges people's pain and struggle while also offering deep inspiration for personal growth, awakening, healing, taking action, and transformation.
Rhonda Magee, J.D.
Author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness, Rhonda Magee is a Professor of Law and a mindfulness teacher. She brings mindfulness and compassion practices to social justice, law, leadership, and education to support individual and collective healing, presence, and transformative change.
Jasmine Marie, Founder of Black Girls Breathing
Check out Jasmine's monthly Virtual Breathwork Circles!
Jasmine Marie offers self-identified Black women a safe space for the healing experience of breathwork, which is "a powerful active meditation technique used to usher stagnant energy out of the
body, help acknowledge and release difficult emotions and traumas, and decrease anxiety and stress by reframing the nervous system’s response to triggers, thereby creating space for more creativity, self-trust, self-love, and feeling grounded and centered." In addition to monthly breathwork circles, she also offers calming guided audio meditations that you can find on her site for anyone who wants to find a calming experience.
The monthly Virtual Breathwork Circle is a donations-based sliding scale event from $0 - $25. Donations from non-Black allies are also kindly accepted to support the mission of creating space for 100+ Black women to receive the mental health and healing benefits of monthly meditational breathwork sessions for one year!
Ruth King, M.A. in Clinical Psychology
Ruth King is an Insight Meditation Teacher, educator and author. She uses the tools of mindfulness and meditation to educate, heal, transform, and inspire for greater personal and cultural well-being.