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The actress, her daughter Willow Smith and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris took part in the controversial practice on their Facebook Watch show "Red Table Talk."
Mama Sanovia Muhammad’s name came up again and again as a respected elder in the community of Black women yoga teachers and practitioners.
Originally from Birmingham, she went to New York at age 16, then returned 20 years later. In 2009, after her retirement from a 30-year labor and delivery nursing career, she became certified as a yoga teacher. Also, she wrote a book called A Journey to Forgiveness, about how yoga helped her through the traumatic experience of losing her mother to violence.
Message: “Yoga covers so many different things. It’s not just about posture it’s also about breath, meditation, prayer, posture and going inward. Yoga has a space for every body and all people.”