Closing the Wellness Inequity Gap

“People often ask me what led me to become a Pilates instructor. I reflect on my experience with yoga. It was a fitness relationship of humble beginnings, me at my grandparents’ house in the mid-1980s, contorting about on a plush blanket.

Things have certainly leveled up for me in the fitness department, but it’s not lost on me that, even then, I was privileged. I may not have had a membership to a sleek yoga studio (not that one existed on the Southside of Chicago in 1987), but I did have a working television tuned into PBS broadcasting an hour of yoga every day. The lack of wellness access wasn’t something that was discussed much forty years ago, especially among Black people. Unfortunately, the risks of wellness inequity are too high to ignore today.”

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