Yoga Is Us
YIU |’yōō| is a community-driven yoga studio that brings people together across lines of difference, diversifies our practice community, and organizes our activist, healing and creative artists into a unified force for change.
by the community, for the community
We break the boutique studio mold with a co-op model that empowers artists, teachers, and creatives to organize the body politic, confront systemic oppression, and deconstruct the barriers that prevent us from working together. We embrace the city as our studio and empower the community through our co-op model.
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We are deeply committed to offering donation-based and pay what you can programming. If you’re in a position to pay it forward or donate to our scholarship fund, you’d be directly amplifying our effort to increase access and representation, diversify our teaching and practice community, and make this movement move! THANK YOU for your love and support!
Alexandra Seaman is on a mission to change how we think about and practice yoga. As a teacher, trainer, and organizer, she facilitates brave spaces that evoke creative, actionable change. At the core of her work is a love for youth, a passion for yoga, and a commitment to living in place.
Her formal training is in Kundalini Yoga, advanced Hatha studies, yogic science for addiction and recovery, children’s yoga, and yoga for at-risk and incarcerated youth. Alex credits the children of Charleston’s downtown public schools as her first and greatest teachers. She began teaching yoga at Mitchell Elementary in 2010 with the nonprofit Empowered Minds, and has since taught over 7,000 hours of yoga to adults and children alike. In 2015 she founded Ecstatic Dance Charleston, a liberatory space at the intersection of conscious dance and DJ culture.
Alex is a copywriter and editor for the global nonprofit yoga organization, 3HO International, and in 2019 launched the School of Sacred Action and trained her first generation teachers. She leads Inclusive Yoga classes in partnership with the City of Charleston that center disability and neuro-divergence. She’s also partnered with Empowered Minds and the Charleston County School District to launch an interdisciplinary teacher training that is place-based and justice informed. Her goal is to diversify the teaching and practice community, increase access and representation, and organize networks of community care.
For Alex, the spiritual is political. Once we have the experience of yoga – by which we mean unity – therein lies an ethical call to action. Her work is in service to this.
