“When the first Black yoga teacher that I ever had told me to ‘take up space,’ it really clicked. It was the first time, in a yoga studio, that I felt seen.”

Eric Mosley, is a 200hr registered yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance and the founder of Black Mat Yoga NYC, a yoga company committed to ensuring that yoga is accessible to every BODY. Eric is a graduate of Morehouse College, Relay Graduate School of Education, and Three Sisters Yoga. After teaching 5th grade reading at an all-boys charter school in Brooklyn, NY; Eric served as the dean of culture at both a charter elementary and high school. The physical and emotional demand of the work led him to the physical yoga practice. After almost a decade of classroom and school leadership experience, he has found a new way to educate through yoga. Eric is fiercely dedicated to making sure that people across identities, specifically people of color, feel a sense of representation, community, and acceptance both on and off their mat.