APRIL FRAZIER
Teacher
April Frazier considers herself a lifelong learner of yoga and mindfulness as a tool for self-empowerment and social justice in diverse, resilient communities. In 2010, she completed her 200-hr teacher certification through Dharma Yoga certification and has since held space for yoga in under-performing schools, trauma centers, and addiction centers to cultivate inner healing.
Prior to being a yoga instructor, April was a middle school teacher at an under-served school in the South Bronx. She believes, regardless of background, we are all in our breath and body, so might as well tap back into our inner wisdom to navigate life’s challenges.
April was part of the first year cohort at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University where she combined education, social activism, entrepreneurship and mindfulness. April has also been certified in laughter yoga, yoga for 12 step recovery, off the mat and into the world, and various trauma-informed and mindfulness in-schools programs. She teaches yoga at Urban Asanas, a studio by and for the Brooklyn community.April considers herself a compassionate disrupter of inequity and restorative reconnector to people’s strengths.
Prior to being a mindfulness and educational consultant, April was a teacher at a resilient middle school in the South Bronx. April was part of the inaugural cohort at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University where she received her Master’s Degree in Spirituality and Mindfulness in 2016, MS education at Fordham University, and BS International Relations, Community Development and Educational Studies with a focus on Anti-Racist education from Mount Holyoke College. She then created Ahimsa MY LLC, focusing on bringing mindfulness and yoga to schools and educational organizations as a means to cultivate present teachers and self-empowered students. April hopes that the practices of mindfulness can reconnect teachers and young people back to their inner resources of breath and body to navigate external uncertainties.
April has partnered with schools across the country as well as numerous service organizations. She was a teacher with the Lineage Project, an organization that teaches trauma-informed mindfulness to incarcerated adjacent young people and staff who support them. She also was a program facilitator with Mindful Schools, an international mindfulness organization supporting in integrating mindfulness into school communities.
April has been working with restorative justice, trauma informed practices, diversity and equity, and mindfulness for over ten years. Her facilitation areas are: restorative justice, mindfulness, trauma informed practices, and supporting sensory needs. She has also led various organizations in DEI work.
April’s greatest joy is being a foster mother.
April can be reached at: Afrazier4285@gmail.com