About PHAT Yoga
PHAT is slang. It's an acronym that means (P)retty (H)ot (A)nd (T)hick or (P)lenty (H)ips (A)nd (T)highs, and used to describe a beautiful girl. We adapted it to mean Positive, Happy, Active (or Accessible) and Tenacious.
PHAT Yoga's mission is to bring wellness through accessible yoga. We aim to be inclusionary while decolonizing yoga. PHAT Yoga’s focus is on breaking the American yogi stereotype of being exclusively well-to-do, European, and slender. Many people shy away from starting yoga because they feel they are not athletic, or athletic looking. Enough already! Yoga is the union of mind and body or spirit and body and is for everyone. Representation matters! It is an honor to virtually decolonize yoga by simply being visible in our practice, with no regard for age, ethnicity, or body type.
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PHAT Yoga recognizes that yoga is not just movement but breathing and meditative focus. We embrace the eight limbs of yoga: Dharana (concentration), Pranayama (restraint or expansion of the breath), Asana (physical postures), Yama (attitudes toward our environment), Niyama (attitudes toward ourselves), Pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), Dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi (complete integration). Three of these are taught (Dharana, Pranayama, and Asana), the remainder is developed through practice.
PHAT Yoga offers classes and workshops. The classes are designed so that any level of yoga practitioner can join. Please embrace ahimsa and be kind to yourself during any yoga practice. Be empowered to opt-out of poses that do not serve you.
The principle Yama of this organization is ahimsa -- kind thoughts, words, and deeds -- which loosely translates to non-violence or non-harming. PHAT Yoga is for-profit but seeks to support students by offering grant writing workshops, lists of grants, and writing grants. Anyone can take our grant-writing class, or subscribe to the grant list for a nominal fee. We also write grants for a commission.
Ashe', be at peace.