Leslie Salmon Jones, Afro Flow Yoga

Afro Flow Yoga® is an embodied practice integrating dance movements of the African diaspora with meditative yoga and live healing music, promoting individual and collective healing in a compassionate, non-judgmental, inclusive, and safe environment. Afro Flow Yoga® is a unique approach to physical, emotional, and mental wellness.

As a company, we offer in-person and virtual classes, workshops, retreats, discussions, and teacher training programs, building community, and cultivating activism through the lens of the African diaspora, offering educational resources on the history of racism, deconstructing racism, and healing our roots.

Afro Flow Yoga® has been featured in Yoga Journal, Black Enterprise, Essence, and Oprah Magazines, “Better Living with Liz Walker,” NPR, NBC and ABC news and was voted “Boston’s Best” yoga class in 2016 by the Improper Bostonian.

Our co-founders and certified instructors have delivered workshops and retreats domestically and internationally, including to the Kripalu Center, the Omega Institute, festivals, schools, colleges, and universities, as well as corporate and private events. We have expanded our circle from the heart of Boston, MA to Arizona, Colorado, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Hawaii, and we continue to grow. Our global reach includes Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Bali, and Tel Aviv.

Afro Flow Yoga® has been featured in a 2019 documentary on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network, “Dark Girls 2.

While Afro Flow Yoga® collaborates with all people, we have a deep commitment to the heritage, empowerment, education, healing, spirituality, and wellness of Black, Indigenous and communities of color.