Abiola Akanni is the founder of Yoga by Biola. She is a leader in the field of yoga, Abiola Akanni has successfully cultivated inclusive wellness spaces that encourage communities to develop their personal yoga practice.

The Nigerian-American yoga educator is the creator behind Yoga by Biola and founder of Iya, the online platform offering #nonperformative yoga. Abiola is committed to disrupting commercial yoga standards that prioritize fitness-based poses over adaptable yoga that honors diverse bodies and the many facets of the practice.

Her inclusive mission promotes yoga as a ritual while teaching individuals how to embody #nonperformative living on and off of the mat!

Golden Nuggets From This Episode:

✨ “Identify where you find the spaces that you feel you need to perform.”

✨ “Identify what space that you feel like you don't belong to and how you are showing up in them.”

✨ “To stop performing in your life, question how you are showing up in the places where you feel like you don't belong.”

✨ “Also ask, who you are when nobody's watching.”

✨ “Begin to allow yourself to stop hiding.”

✨ “Identify the area you wanna make an expression in and start to give yourself permission to walk in it.”

✨ “Normalizing Black bliss is to cultivate a deep sense of love or we mature out of our boundaries.”

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