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, first met in yoga teacher training. For both, it was an important stop on their wellness journeys. Ferguson originally saw yoga as a once-in-a-while escape from a crowded apartment and a hectic college life but fully recommitted to it years later after her grandmother passed away."If I don't hate it at the end of the six months, and I do it every day, I'll just doAlexandra was coming from a dance and running background when she discovered yoga.
"In 2018 I decided, I'm going to take up space for myself. I know I'm not the only larger-bodied woman out here that practices yoga," she said. She went into training with the goal of working with Black and brown women in larger bodies.That vision resonated with Ferguson, who recalled that out of 20-some people in their training group, she and Alexandra were the only Black women. The obvious lack of diversity was reflective of the larger yoga and wellness field, she said.
Alexandra and Ferguson took studio space in Brooklyn, first subletting and then getting their own studio as their classes grew in popularity."It was beautiful," Ferguson said."We had people from the Bronx and Harlem coming, people from Jersey." Visitors from out of town would find BK Yoga Club online and stop by on trips to New York."They wanted to come and experience what we were cultivating here," Ferguson explained.
In classes, that means meeting people where they are, Alexandra said. Teachers don't label students or assume skill levels based on how they look, and they offer a variety of poses and movements to make classes accessible. Ferguson said her classes also prioritize the joy in the practice."Yoga is supposed to be fun!" she said."We get anxiety on the mat because we're too worried about what we're doing. It should be the opposite.
classes is"healthy habit-building," Ferguson said, with a focus on how the practice feels instead of how it looks.The next step for BK Yoga Club: grow. Alexandra and Ferguson aim to expand into multiple locations, create an app, and broaden BK Yoga Club into a bigger wellness brand."BK Yoga Club is beyond just yoga," Ferguson explained; from the start, they wanted to create an artistic, inclusive, and wellness-focused community.
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