Afro Flow Yoga was featured in an article on Yoga Journal, Afro Flow Yoga Celebrates Diversity.
Yoga touts benefits for people from all walks of life, and yet there’s an lack of diversity in many yoga classes. This is one thing yoga teacher and professional dancer Leslie Salmon Jones would like to see change. Full article
An article in Exhale magazine spring of 2010, Leslie Salmon Jones discusses the powerful impact of positive mind over matter!
Read the article here: http://www.exhalelifestyle.com/2010-2-1/LeslieSalmonJones.html
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Leslie has been featured multiple times in Exhale Magazine–a publication which promotes healthy living–and as their cover model (shown left) in May 2009 issue.
Click here to read “Strength and Purpose” article: http://www.baystatebanner.com/local10-2009-05-28
ABC’s Liz Walker talks with Leslie about Afro Flow Yoga’s roots, rhythms, and benefits. Features AFY filming from December 2010 and from the Hope Lodge in Jamaica Plain.
What inspired you to create Afro Flow Yoga?
The inspiration came after traveling extensively throughout the Caribbean and Africa, dancing since the age of 7 and practicing yoga for nearly 20 years. After the passing of my father, Dr. John Douglas Salmon, who was born to Jamaican parents, I was on a spiritual quest to connect with my ancestors. I felt compelled to take a journey to West Africa (Cote Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and Benin) and shortly thereafter through my travels, experiences and ancestry, came the inspiration for Afro Flow Yoga. After doing extensive research, I later learned
Friend, Eddie’s, village in Ghana
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