A bold new way to tackle health inequity: create holistic health leaders
charged to transform
the community
MISSION
BMYI promotes holistic education, and supports and engages men and boys of color to live healthy lives of peace and calm using yoga and mindfulness and LifeForce™ Development training as a means of human development.
The Black Male Yoga Initiative Center - Baltimore, is the first of its kind to address the root of the barriers and diseases in our community--the health of its Black Men- by offering them advances in this field of practice and a new set of resources for cultural leadership in the twenty-first century. Together we are creating an indispensable national resource for programming to unearth healthy communities at the root through yoga and mindfulness—helping us all make the case that, indeed the health of African American men is a key factor in the transformation of society.
Ubuntu. we are made possible by...
BMYI CATALYZES LEADERSHIP IN YOGA
TO TACKLE THE PROBLEMS OF HEALTH INEQUALITY
We...
+ Educate
OUR LIFE FORCE™
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
CREATES SUSTAINABLE
SOLUTIONS THAT ENABLE
OUR MOST VULNERABLE TO
TRANSFORM THEIR LIVES
+ Engage
OUR FOUNDER
IS A TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADER COMMITTED TO
CLEARING AN ACCESSIBLE
PATHWAY TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
TRAINING AND PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND
+ Empower
OUR YOGA TEACHER
TRAINING PROGRAM
IS WHAT MAKES BMYI THE
WORLD'S SCHOOL FOR
TRANSFORMING BLACK MEN
TO ACHIEVE THEIR OPTIMAL
HEALTH.
YOU CAN’T JUST TALK ABOUT FILLING OPPORTUNITY GAPS ...WITHOUT ALSO TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, ESPECIALLY OF [THE] MOST VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE, THEIR PARENTS AND THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY LIVE.
OPPORTUNITY IMPACTS HEALTH AND HEALTH IMPACTS OPPORTUNITY.
--Broderick Johnson
Assistant to the POTUS and Cabinet Secretary
Chair of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force