“I started a yoga hub for Black women”: This entrepreneur found a way to make wellness affordable and inclusive “I started a yoga hub for Black women”: This entrepreneur found a way to make wellness affordable and inclusive
By Shanelle McKenzie | Photography By Erin Leydon |
January 8, 2021
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Shanelle McKenzie started a wellness collective for women of colour with free talks, walking clubs and a yoga program that runs on a sliding scale. When the pandemic happened, she moved all her services online. Here, she tells us how it all works. As told to Natalie Harmsen
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“Yoga is intimidating for women of colour. We walk into these studios where the pictures don’t look like us and the yogis don’t look like us. In the past, when I attended yoga classes, I was often the only Black person in the room, and I felt uncomfortable. That’s why I started the Villij, a wellness collective for women of colour, with my colleague Kim Knight i