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.
Understanding Carbs
Carbohydrates are a substance contained in food or a category of nutrients. You have carbohydrates that are in their natural form which are essentially grains such as wheat, rice, barley, millet, quinoa, etc, etc. Whole-grain carbohydrates mean that the three components of the grain are intact, namely the germ, endosperm, and bran. A processed grain … Read more
Mind Cleansing Power Of Meditation
Do we understand that our beliefs, what we think are “facts” are actually simply chemical reactions in our brains that are like receiving doses of dope when we have them? In other words, we often believe things based not upon an examination of the validity and reliability of the data but because that “idea”, we … Read more
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
War in Ukraine
We as Black folks should be opposed to all wars, especially those that are nothing but blind aggression designed to steal the resources of the country being attacked and virtually enslaving the people. Wars are taking place in many parts of Africa, the so-called Middle East, Asia, the Pacific Islands, South, and Central America, RIGHT … Read more
Why I Hate Memes
One of the reasons I don’t like memes is that they are too often used to oversimplify complex and nuanced issues and allow people on social media to form uninformed and often really dumb opinions. Many memes are created by sophisticated political propagandists whose job is to shape the opinion of certain populations (BLACK FOLKS) … Read more
What Happened to the Face of the Sphinx?
It is an often repeated myth that the face of the Sphinx was damaged by cannonballs fired at it by Napoleon because they wanted to conceal that the builders of civilization were Black. In fact, this is not true. The face of the Sphinx was damaged by Muslim fanatics called Mamaluks who considered it an … Read more
