Yirser Ra Hotep on His Story of Yoga, and the Misconceptions of the Practice on the Karen Hunter Show
Check out Master Hotep sharing some great insights about the origins of yoga on the Karen Hunter show.
Kemetic Yoga
A Spiritual Practice
For me, the practice of Kemetic Yoga is an act of Spirituality. I am descended from the original, the African in the land from which all is spawned. I align with the Divinities that became creation and the Ancestral Spirits who protect me and guide me. Yoga and meditation are so much more than doing postures. The … Read more
I Am A Yoga Teacher
I am a teacher of Yoga. Yoga is a system of Self Development that involves movements, Postures, and Controlled Deep Breathing that heals, improves health and allows one to manage stress and get relief from trauma. Yoga is also a philosophy that includes a worldview that instills alignment with righteousness and the order of nature. … Read more
Identity Crisis
Before the holocaust of the middle passage and captivity, each child was born into the community with knowledge of their purpose for coming into this life and what their role in the world was to be. This is because prior to birth our culture had ways of consulting with the spirits and the oracles to … Read more
Survival
For you young folks who are interested in hearing the words of an elder, listen to Warren Washington, a Black man who actually invented the science of creating mathematical models of understanding and predicting global climate change and weather patterns in general. Many view modern science and scientific thinking as a “white” thing without realizing … Read more
Kemetic Yoga Origins
The term Kemetic Yoga refers specifically to the work performed by Dr. Asar Hapi and Yirser Ra Hotep starting in the mid-1970s to re-discover the ancient Kemetic connection with Yoga. Our research centered on the translation of certain writings and the interpretation of certain symbols that related to the philosophy and practice of Yoga. We … Read more
On The Origins Of Implicit Bias & White Supremacy
In America and throughout the entire white world, Black professionals automatically face doubt and fear because subconscious automatic implicit bias is a built-in feature of the psychological makeup of people in this society. The sight of Black skin automatically triggers internal reactions of bias that white people seem unable to control or even be aware … Read more
Popularizing Yoga In The Early Part Of The 21st Century
Yirser Ra Hotep and Kemetic Yoga Featured in Ebony Magazine along with Russell Simmons and Robin Michele Downes, Niambi Jaha-Echols, La’Drissa Bonivel, and Bridgette Glickman. Later appeared on Oprah Winfrey with Bridgette Glickman, training her in Kemetic Yoga.
Yoga in Africa
So, I travel to the deepest parts of Africa, out in the “bush”. People see me and for no reason, at all, they stop what they are doing and go into some poses. We call these poses Yoga, but they do not. They don’t call them anything. I ask them, “who taught you how to … Read more
Racial Empowerment:
Race as a biological construct is an absurdity created by white folks to justify their desire to dominate African people and others. But since “race” is used by the oppressor to take away our power we must unite on the basis of our common experience of Blackness and Africaness. We also must recognize the cultural, … Read more