Our Team
Urban Yoga Foundation Instructors, Ambassadors, and Interns
A number of selfless individuals committed to service make the work of UYF possible. Our team includes karma yoga instructors volunteering their time to teach studio classes, ambassadors donating their time to fulfill administrative duties, and mindfulness instructors bringing programs to schools.
Shindera Jackson, nurse, doula, yogi, acupuncturist and
herbalist in training, momma of 2 and Light to many. She started
this journey 14 years ago at the guidance of her grandmother and
hasn’t stopped since. Volunteered as a wellness director for Urban
Yoga Foundation guiding underserved children and adults to better
health within the communities of New York for over 12yrs. Now
making her main focus women’s health, brown skin mommas womb health
to be exact. Trail blazing with a different type of approach,
wholistic realiness.
Shindera has been and will always be, an activist for
health, just now, she’s had a better platform to be heard. Stepping
out on faith and stepping into your wealth, womb wealth. Coaching
women one on one, setting their bodies on the right track, via
lifestyle changes, exercise and mindfulness meditation. Showing
you, brown skin women, that just because you were taught that way
doesn’t mean it has to stay that way. “Puedenda
edumonia”.