African Roots Mindful Yoga

Yasmina Porter spent 18 years as a Professor at Cabrillo College, including 9 years teaching Mindfulness and MBSR in the Academy for College Excellence. Yasmina is a Mindfulness Based Relationship Coach and Meditation Teacher. She teaches Mindfulness at Insight Santa Cruz . Sundays 8-9am pacific for Patrons and Mondays 6-7pm Pacific for people of color on Zoom.  Yasmina is also a trilingual Fulbright Researcher, historian and performing artist, drawing inspiration from her interfaith childhood in Ghana, West Africa and rural Virginia. Her cultural lineage includes Christian, Muslim and Jewish practice, from ecstatic praise to quiet contemplation. Her work is dedicated to one on one human connection and reconciling ourselves with the divine, our planet, our community and first and foremost ourselves.