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Cultural Studies & Humanities Courses
The Black Experience - Lineage, Liberation & Identity
Welcome to a culturally responsive space for embodied learning. At Sankofa Yoga, we believe that mindfulness and creative expression are powerful tools for personal and collective wellbeing—especially when grounded in the histories, movements, and knowledge systems of the African diaspora.
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Our Cultural Studies & Humanities Courses offer an opportunity to explore identity, presence, and emotional resilience through culturally rooted practices. Whether engaging with Afro-diasporic dance or exploring ancestral pathways of healing, participants are invited to reflect, move, and learn in ways that honor both tradition and contemporary experience.
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These offerings blend somatic awareness with cultural education—supporting deeper self-connection, creativity, and a sense of belonging.
Let Sankofa be a space where your history, healing, and growth converge.
Wednesdays | 6:30pm - 7:45pm | Virtual
This course invites participants into a deep exploration of African American thought as a living tradition, one shaped by history, creativity, resistance, spirituality, and survival. Rather than treating Black thought as something static or historical, we approach it as a continuum of ideas, practices, and ways of knowing that continue to shape how we understand freedom today.
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Across five weeks, we will explore how social conditioning, cultural narratives, and inherited beliefs influence the way we see ourselves, our bodies, and our possibilities. Drawing from African American intellectual traditions, liberation movements, contemplative practices, and cultural expression, students will examine how awareness, imagination, and inner life have functioned as tools of resilience and self-determination.
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Through group discussion, assigned readings, and mindful practices, the course centers a simple but profound question: What does it mean to be free within ourselves, and how do we carry that freedom forward?
This is an invitation to engage history not just as something we study, but as something we inherit, interrogate, and transform.
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​Course is led by Shawn J. Moore.
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Investment: $175 ​ | Registration Open​
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Can't attend all five weeks? No problem! Join us when you can! Enrollment closes the Friday before the first session, or earlier if spaces fill.​​​
Wednesdays | 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm | Virtual
Long before wellness became an industry, Black communities developed ways to care for the body, tend the spirit, and support one another through everyday acts of healing. These practices emerged in kitchens, churches, fields, and gathering spaces, carried through ritual, touch, movement, prayer, and shared knowledge.
Across five weeks, the course traces how Black healing traditions evolved over time, from ancestral African practices to community-based approaches shaped by faith, culture, and lived experience. Students examine how healing has taken many forms, not only as medicine, but as a way of maintaining wholeness, dignity, and continuity across generations.
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Drawing from history, religion, cultural practice, and contemporary wellness perspectives, students consider how healing has functioned both as care and as a form of quiet resistance.
Through course discussions and reflection, students are invited to connect historical understanding with personal and communal experiences, exploring how the body carries memory, wisdom, and resilience, and how these traditions continue to shape how we understand wellness today.
Course is led by Dr. Hassan Brown, Ed.D.
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Investment: $175​ | Registration Open​
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Can't attend all five weeks? No problem! Join us when you can! Enrollment closes the Friday before the first session, or earlier if spaces fill.​​​
SERVICE POLICY
We do not offer refunds for courses. However, if your plans change, you can transfer your payment to another course or program as long as you contact us at least 72 hours before the course begins. After that point, all payments are non-transferable and non-refundable. Please email the Bursar if you need to make a change. Advanced registration is required online or via the MINDBODY app. Arrive 5-10 minutes before class starts, as we do not accept late entries. Passes won’t be refunded for missed cancellations or policy violations.
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Payment/Refund Policy
We do not offer refunds for courses. However, if your plans change, you can transfer your payment to another course or program as long as you contact us at least 72 hours before the course begins. After that point, all payments are non-transferable and non-refundable. Please email the Bursar if you need to make a change. Advanced registration is required online or via the MINDBODY app. We’re a cashless facility, so pre-registration is required. Create a free online account to streamline class registration. Expired passes and unused specials cannot be refunded or credited.​
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Class Cancellation
We do not offer refunds for courses. Please email the Bursar if you need to make a change. To cancel a class, please do so at least 30 minutes in advance by logging into our reservation system and selecting "Cancel" under "My Schedule." Please Note: Your class or purchase will not be credited to your account and no refunds are issued once you begin your course.
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Late Arrival Policy
Doors lock five minutes after class starts, and late entries are not accepted. Please Note: Your class will not be credited to your account and no refunds are issued once you begin your course.