Black history isn’t something I study, it’s something I carry.
I know what it means to live on land where ancestors are still close, where memory isn’t tucked away in museums but lives in the trees, in the earth and especially in the body. My ancestral land, Mississippi, was the place I learned that wellness is the future, as well as part of our collective history.
That’s part of why I felt pulled to Mexico — to Oaxaca specifically. Old land recognizes old land.
There’s a familiarity here.
Not sameness — but resonance. Indigenous rhythms. Rituals that never stopped. A relationship to the body that isn’t rushed or extracted, but lived with. Honored. Passed down.
Today is February 1, the first day of Black History Month, and this year marks 100 years since it was formally recognized in the United States.
I’m beginning this month with movement, not performance. With presence. With a sunrise flow over Centro Oaxaca, on a Sunday morning, barefoot on land that remembers.
Flows from the Wild is my practice.
It’s rooted in the inner-standing that Black history doesn’t live only in books or speeches. It lives in breath patterns. In nervous systems shaped by survival, by violence, by fear, by oppression.
Despite it all, Black bodies have always preserved and created joy and healing. When regulated, our body learns when to brace, and when it’s finally safe to soften.
This months’s flows are about regulation. About letting the body arrive without needing to explain itself and about beginning the month from a place of internal grounding, rather than obligation.
I’m here, listening closely — to land, to ancestry, to what the body knows before language gets involved.
Preparing to move overseas has only sharpened that listening— What do I take with me? What do I release? What needs to stay rooted? What parts of me are ready for more and where can I do more for myself and my community?
This month, Flows from the Wild will move through those questions slowly — through somatic Pilates, ancestral awareness, and wellness practices that respect where we come from and where we’re going.
This is how I’m entering February.
In motion. In lineage. In my body.
Flows From the Wild: OAX
The full Flows from the Wild sunrise practice is available to paid members.
Come inside to move slowly and with intention.