“It all began when I started to welcome myself home to who I am and who I wanted to be.”
I am a yoga educator, horticulturist, and multi-hyphenate creative who inspires the art of mindful living through my teaching, plants, home practice, and rituals.
Hi! I’m Nakia
I left my role as clinical health educator job in the heaviness of the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to continue pursue my passion for teaching wellness by finding and creating environments that felt more safe and supportive.
I have been teaching yoga since 2018 and have over a 1000 hours of training. I am a certified E-RYT 200 and RYT 300. I am a certified perinatal yoga instructor and well as a certified Rocket Yoga teacher. I like for my teaching to feel intelligent, intuitive, intentional, and heartfelt. I will always lead class with an intention, offering a spiritual or mental element to the asana. As we move the postures help elevate the teachings "yoking" everything together. My classes are soulful and mindful, with creative flows and silly antics to challenge and comfort the yogi from the inside out.
I believe the practice is fullest when we engage our body, mind, and spirit leaving no stone unturned as we move closer to our best selves.
I also hold a Personal Training & Corrective Exercise Specialist certification. And am certified as a Stretch Therapist for assisted stretching.
Know this:
you are always home.
Hmegrown was created around the intention of creating the space for others to connect with themselves.
The body is an integral aspect of how we exist. We fight our bodies daily for the sake of conformity. As a culture, we are more disconnected than ever from ourselves and to each other.
Your body is an instrument, a canvas, a reclamation.
Your body holds a deep wisdom. Your deep truths to healing and connection flow right in the very cells and tissues of your created body.
When you listen to the wisdom of your body and work as a partner in your body’s healing you become a clearer version of yourself.
Your body is a safe space to exist and thrive within.
The intention of Hmegrown is to help foster the space for you to become more familiar with your body and enhance how you move through space and life. Our bodies are central to our memory and how we experience the world
The word healing comes from the old-English term haelen, meaning “wholeness” and often refers to the process of moving toward a desired wholeness or achievement of cohesion. Healing is an intervention, an outcome, and a process, and at times, all three.
Self-expression is healing. Movement is healing. Reconnecting with your body in each and every moment you can is healing.
Anything that creates a sense of connection, community, and love is healing. And thus the mission and the vision of Hmegrown.
Thank you for being here, for you.
Healthy living has always been a desire of mine. A desire to achieve for myself and a desire to help others.
I attended Texas A&M University with the intention of obtaining my degree in Allied Health to become a nurse. Along my way there, I discovered public health and yoga.
The focus of public health is to promote and protect the health of people and the community. While a doctor treats people who are sick, the intention of public health is to try to prevent people from getting sick or injured in the first place. Public health also promotes wellness by encouraging healthy behaviors through education and resources. Public health helped to address the roots of the illnesses rather than just the symptoms. It was preventative and proactive. In my tenure at A&M, public health studies were shifted to be available for undergrad. I graduated with a double majored in Allied Health and Public Health.
Upon my last year of undergrad, I discovered yoga. This discovery came due to the kinesiology credit requirement of my degree plan. And just like most of the others who have felt a deep internal shift from practicing yoga, I did as well. Yoga changed me.
What I didn’t realize was the impact of the stress of my college career. Especially in the last year, when it was time to “go out into the world and become an adult with a real career” whatever that means. I was having heart palpitations, shortness of breath, and feeling like I was going to pass out. I went to the doctor and he told me that I needed to sleep, lay off the caffeine, and find ways to not be as stressed. Good luck…
Then came yoga. The physical practice was fun. I enjoyed the new challenging movement (as a person who played sports all during childhood and was an avid gym goer). But the biggest breakthrough for me was the breathing part. To breathe fully. Expansively. Even when things got hard. There was an internal challenge in the class of also being the only person of color in the room as I was at a PWI. And through it all, I still maintained my breath.