Yoga 4 Philly

To make peace, love, and healing accessible to everyone through yoga and meditation.

12/24/2025

Save this mediation + affirmation for when you need to find a moment of stillness during this season of chaos 📿

They say there’s no place like home for the holidays.
Home is within you. Home is the person you are becoming ❤️

Happy Holidays,

Yoga 4 The World, Yoga 4 Philly + Yoga 4 The Bay

12/20/2025

In a world that favors trends over authenticity, mirrors over our mental health and profit over people we are here to remind you the first step towards healing is trying.

Yoga 4 Philly exists to bring yoga to vulnerable communities wellness resources that may not otherwise be available to them. Our mission—make yoga and meditation accessible to everyone, everywhere 🧘🏾‍♂️🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏻

12/17/2025

Zeena is one of our yoga sharers who’s been teaching (the elect program) for pregnant teens, teens who have kids and their partners.

How our prenatal classes flow—

Intro: welcome students, why yoga?
Grounding: get grounded, breath work
Warm up: warm up, movement
Chair/prenatal yoga: asanas students can do in both a chair or on the mat
Closing: guided meditation

When you donate to our non-profit, not only are you supporting Yoga 4 Philly’s mission but you are also helping us to offer these vital services to the communities who need it most.

Do you know of any schools or organizations looking to offer prenatal classes for teens? Reach out to us for more information at info@yoga4philly.org.

12/12/2025

Our founder Steven Brice was featured in Identity Edition!

Read an excerpt from the article ‘Embracing Identity Through Self-Awareness in Yoga’—

“As a black male yoga teacher and CEO, I’ve come to recognize that practicing yoga isn’t just about physical
postures: it’s a profound joumey into self-awareness and
identity.

My journey to self-awareness was not always simple.
During my time in seminary, I was introduced to a rigorous examination of truth-one that challenged everything I thought I knew about spirituality and my relationship with God. As I delved into the origins of my beliefs, I found myself confronting the uncomfortable realization that many of my theological understandings had been shaped by cultural and societal influences. This exploration forced me to dismantle harmful beliefs tied to my theology and my identity.
I faced a profound struggle:

Should I suppress my new understandings and adhere to the comforting traditions of my spiritual community, or should I boldly stand for what I now believed was right?

Choosing the latter meant stepping away from a well-worn path and into an unknown that felt isolating and lonely. I quickly found myself on an emotional island, wrestling with feelings of depression and suicidal ideation.

This transformative experience led me to establish Yoga 4 The World, aka Yoga 4 Philly, a nonprofit dedicated to making wellness accessible to everyone, everywhere. I recognized the power of yoga as a tool for healing—not just for myself but for others who might be navigating similar struggles.

My mission is to create a community where individuals feel free to explore their identities without fear of judgment, a space where self-awareness is not just encouraged but celebrated.

Through Yoga 4 The World, we aim to dismantle barriers to wellness, inviting people from all backgrounds to the mat.
I believe that true self-awareness involves understanding our own his-tories, acknowledging our cultural differences, and finding strength in our shared humanity.”

12/11/2025

Yoga isn’t about molding our bodies into something to show off or about who can touch their toes. It transforms the parts of us that are invisible, shows us how to truly listen to our bodies, and encourages us to breathe through the hard moments, releasing what we’ve been holding onto.

Our practice is a reminder that real strength comes from being present, not perfect.

For many of our communities, healing is generational and has often been overlooked.

At Yoga 4 Philly, we’re making sure accessible, culturally aware wellness isn’t a privilege but a right.

Your donations help us bring free and low-cost classes, trauma-informed spaces, and real community care to neighborhoods that need it most.

12/06/2025

Be gentle with others — we rarely know the weight they’re carrying or the season they’re moving through.

When someone steps onto their mat, they may be holding far more than we see.

This is why the way we hold space matters. Because every person on the mat brings a story with them.

This is exactly why Yoga 4 Philly exists: to make that kind of healing space accessible, equitable, and open to everyone regardless of background or lived experience. Our yoga sharers and community partnerships are all guided by the belief that yoga should meet people where they are, with compassion at the center ❤️

12/02/2025

This consider supporting a local non-profit! At Yoga 4 Philly we believe in making peace, love, and healing accessible to everyone through yoga & meditation 🧘🏽‍♀️🧘🏾‍♂️

Your support will assist us in providing yoga and meditation classes for good people just like you—our precious senior citizens and our talented school students & administration.

Thank you for your support!

11/25/2025

November is Children’s Grief Awareness Month. Through Yoga 4 Kids, we offer trauma informed yoga practices to children and adolescent teens in several of Philadelphia’s public schools. What we’ve discovered is that the presence of yoga helps to ground everyone throughout all of the complex emotions they may experience throughout the day.

Researchers have found that focused breathing is associated with improved emotion regulation and sympathetic nervous system functioning (Arch & Craske, 2006; Brown & Gerbarg, 2009), meditation with reduced anxiety and depression (Schreiner & Malcolm, 2008), and moving one’s body alongside others with increased feelings of interpersonal connection (Berrol, 1992; Macy et al., 2003).”

Know a school that would benefit from this program? Reach out to us for more info.

11/21/2025

Meet Dr. Jerika—

As a certified Kemetic Yoga teacher, Jerika loves reminding all of us that what connects us is eternal. This eternal connection and sense of oneness- with self, others and nature- instills peace, well-being and ultimately healing. We have the power to heal ourselves, heal others and heal the planet through conscious intention and yoga. To heal and to shine is simply one’s birthright. Jeri“KA” is here to enliven the limitless potential of each unique KA (spirit) through connection, yoga and love 🩵

Thank you for your partnership in a shared journey of making yoga accessible to all!

11/17/2025

This month’s ‘Yoga with Cats’ is November 24th, 6:30-7:30 PM! Presented in collaboration with Cat Adoption Café. These are low-capacity intimate classes that are grounding and rejuvenating. Grab your tickets at getagato.com!

Pictured from left to right are Cornucopia, Wishbone and Cider who are some of the many adoptable kitties at Get A Gato 🐾

11/11/2025

Become a Peaceful Warrior for as little as $5 a month, if you have the means to do so. Share with 5 friends who you think would enjoy a monthly virtual yoga class simply for having donated! $5 across 12 months is $60–nearly half of what many studios cost.

Any and every donation makes a significant difference and supports yoga and meditation classes for all who
are in need throughout or communities.

Address

Philadelphia, PA
19144

Website

http://www.yoga4philly.org/

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