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Yoga • Meditation • Sound Healing • Sculpt
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Sister, put yourself on the calendar. 🤎

Our updated schedule is here! As a new studio, we’re offering fewer classes while we build attendance and momentum. This helps us bring more sisters into each class, reduce cancellations, and keep the studio sustainable.

Your support helps this space grow. Every booking, shared post, and invitation to a friend matters.

Find your class, bring a sister, and come be held.

Book through the BGWC Studio app or www.blackgirlwalkingclub.com.

📍81 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ • Lower Level

#BGWCStudio #BlackGirlWalkingClub #NewarkWellness #BlackWomenWellness #ASpaceToBeHeld

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Today’s wonderful yoga teacher for Yoga sculpt! Fun music & Great workout, Thanks!! @balasanabyb

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✨ MEET BALDWEEN ✨
Vinyasa Yoga + Sound Instructor 🧘🏾‍♀️🎶

Meet Baldween, one of the beautiful souls bringing movement, mindfulness, and sound to BGWC Studio. 🖤

Her Vinyasa Yoga + Sound class blends intentional movement, breathwork, and healing sound to help you release what you’ve been carrying, reconnect with your body, and leave feeling grounded.

Come flow. Come breathe. Come be held.

📍 BGWC Studio | Newark, NJ
🖤 A space to be held.

#BGWCStudio #BlackWomenWellness #VinyasaYoga #SoundHealing #NewarkWellness

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Every detail of BGWC Studio was created with intention. 🖤📚

Whether you’re waiting for class to start or your massage to begin, grab a book from our little library, get comfortable, and read a few pages.

Our shelves are intentionally filled with literature by Black authors—stories, voices, and wisdom that reflect us. Because wellness isn’t only about movement. Sometimes healing looks like slowing down and finding yourself in the pages.

And a special thank you to our beautiful community who has purchased and donated books for our studio. 🥹🖤 We’re still filling our shelves, one story at a time.

A space to be held—in every way.

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Dr. @arciastokes had a vision. A vision for a space where Black women could come to be seen, held, breathe, and find release.

Too often, we find ourselves in spaces where representation is lacking. Where the instructors, the faces, and the environments don’t always reflect us. Where we may enter with caution, unsure if we will truly feel seen, safe, or held.

Dr. Stokes saw that gap and decided to address it. She created a space and built a team of black women instructors, sound healers, massage therapists, and facilitators holding sister circles. A space where Black women can come together and begin to release the expectation of always having to be strong. Always having to be resilient. Where we can soften, exhale, and simply be.

There is something deeply vulnerable about this work. And as an instructor who gets to be part of this vision, I do not take lightly the responsibility of helping cultivate a space where women who look like me can feel safe enough to let their guard down. To be witnessed without judgment. To rest without guilt. To exist without having to explain themselves.

I am beyond excited to help carry this vision forward. This is part of the reason I found my way into wellness in the first place: to help create these spaces, to be that representation, and to stand unapologetically in all that I am as a Black woman.

There is power in seeing yourself reflected in the spaces you enter. There is healing in being held by people who understand that strength and softness can coexist. And there is something sacred about creating room for us to experience both.

Black Girl Walking Club Studio is opening its doors on 10/10! 🖤

The space is ready, and we’re ready to hold you.

Download the app (Black Girl Walking Club Studio), explore the offerings, and book your classes. We cannot wait to welcome you in 🫂

@bgwc_studio

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Two years. No real vacation. Just building, teaching, serving, creating. 🌿

And now… we’re practicing what we teach.

In the midst of preparing for our next Yoga Teacher Training, Darwin and I are remembering that the practice isn’t only on the mat.

Sthira & Sukha.
Effort + ease.
Discipline + delight.
Work + leisure.
Holding the vision while remembering to live.

Today, our practice looks like sand beneath our feet, the ocean in front of us, and permission to simply be.

Because balance isn’t something we teach.
It’s something we practice. 🌊✨ Love our teachers and yogi practitioners to the moon and back 💚💚💚

#SthiraSukha #SoulWorkStudio #YogaTeacherTraining #WorkLifeBalance #YogaOffTheMat Mexico PracticeWhatYouTeach LiveEmbodyTransform

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Fifteen classes a week.

Mornings build. Middays hold. Afternoons soften. Evenings settle. The schedule is built around the shape of a day rather: stronger practice early, held practice at noon, and evenings moving toward stillness. The start times are the same every day, all week. Practice becomes a consistent rhythm.

Now on the schedule — Grounded Flow, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00 AM. Midday Haṭha, Mondays and Wednesdays at 12:00. Saturday mornings run Grounded Flow at 10:30 into Saturday Vinyāsa at 12:00. And Vinyāsa & Prāṇāyāma with Anumeha, Wednesdays at 7:30 AM.

Once a month — Sound Bath with Seema, the third Sunday at 7:00 PM. The first is September 20. Monthly gatherings are ticketed separately; they aren’t included in memberships, class packs or drop-ins.

New to practice? Foundations, Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, is a clear place to begin. Every weekly class is open to all levels, with modifications offered throughout.

One membership, all fifteen classes. Monthly Unlimited is $115: every weekly class, every week, no counting. New here? Two weeks unlimited for $45 is the way to find your hours.

Reserve your spot through the link in our bio. Deep green card. "The weekly schedule · from September. 15 classes a week. Mornings build. Middays hold. Afternoons soften. Evenings settle. The same start times, every day. Swipe through." ĀTMĀ Yoga Collective, Hoboken NJ.

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HELD BY HER. 🤎

Meet the women who will hold you.

At BGWC Studio, you’re not just walking into a class—you’re walking into a space intentionally created for Black women to move, breathe, release, restore, and simply be.

And these are the women who will help make that possible.

From Pilates and yoga to movement, meditation, sound, massage, and sisterhood—our team is here to remind you that wellness doesn’t always have to mean pushing harder.

Sometimes, wellness looks like being held. 🖤

Held in your strength.
Held in your softness.
Held in your becoming.
Held in community.

Meet the women behind the movement.
Meet the women behind the space.
Meet the women who will pour into you.

HELD BY HER: The Women of BGWC Studio.

📍81 Halsey Street • Newark, NJ
A space to be held.

#HeldByHer #BGWCStudio #BlackGirlWalkingClub #ASpaceToBeHeld

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Saturday, September 19. Open house, 11 AM to 2 PM.

Short classes every half hour, the teachers here to meet, and the room open to walk through. Come for one, come for all three hours, or come to sit by the window and drink tea.

A traditionally rooted yoga studio on the third floor at 66 Hudson Street, with the original brick and the light off the river in the afternoon.

Everyone is welcome. No experience needed, no mat needed.

66 Hudson Street, Suite 3F · Hoboken
atmayogacollective.com A sunlit yoga studio with tall windows, sheer cream curtains, an exposed brick wall and forest green mats laid out on a light wood floor. Text below reads: Open House. Grand Opening. Saturday, September 19. 11 AM to 2 PM, short classes every half hour, teachers to meet. 66 Hudson Street, Suite 3F, Hoboken, NJ.

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Last night was about more than a workout. It was about learning how to downshift, recover, and perform better.

A huge thank you to Oliver on the Hudson for sponsoring the experience and giving us the opportunity to bring our community together.

Thank you to Coach Edwin for breaking down the autonomic nervous system and giving us practical strategies to better manage stress, downregulate, and improve recovery — including his simple 3-2-1 method that everyone could take home and use immediately.

Thank you to Shari’s Tea for providing enough for every participant to leave with something to enjoy. 🌿☕️

And a special thank you to Baldwin for closing the evening with an incredible sound bath underneath a beautiful full moon. 🌕 It was the perfect way to put everything we talked about into practice.

Most importantly, thank you to everyone who showed up, participated, asked questions, and spent the evening with us.

This is what MYGYM Collective is about:

Movement. Nutrition. Recovery. Mindset.

One experience at a time.

Stay tuned. The next one is already coming. 👀

#MYGYMCollective #OliverOnTheHudson #WellnessExperience #Recovery #Performance JerseyCityWellness CommunityWellness

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Vinyāsa & Sound, with Baldween.

Sixty minutes in two movements. The first is a steady, breath-led vinyāsa that builds warmth, taught with clear cues and room to work at your own pace. The second is stillness — singing bowls take over and the room fills with sound, closing with the restorative power of sound healing. Come for the flow; stay for what settles afterward. Open to all levels, with modifications offered throughout.

Wednesdays at 6:00 PM. Reserve your spot at the link in bio.

@balasanabyb Text graphic on a rosemary green ground with a faint ĀTMĀ seal watermark, reading Wednesdays 6:00–7:00 PM, Vinyāsa & Sound — Flow First, Frequencies to Close, with Baldween Casseus: sixty minutes in two movements, a steady breath-led vinyāsa that builds warmth, then stillness as singing bowls close the hour with the restorative power of sound healing — come for the flow, stay for what settles afterward.

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Introducing Baldween.

Baldween views yoga and sound as parallel paths toward presence — a practice deeply informed by her Caribbean heritage and her background in coaching. Her classes at ĀTMĀ build a flow and then dissolve it into stillness, closing with the restorative power of sound healing.

Join her Wednesdays at 6:00 PM. Reserve your spot at the link in bio.

@balasanabyb Baldween Casseus smiling at the camera with one hand resting on her heart, wearing a yellow silk shawl with sheer trim, her curly hair held back by a black headband, against a soft cream wall.

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