A Practice Rooted in Remembrance

Urban Yoga Foundation began with a mother, a daughter, and a daily ritual that became a movement.

Ghylian Bell never set out to build a brand. She built a bond. A high-functioning single mother navigating the demands of life, she found sanctuary in mindful movement — a daily ritual shared with her daughter that became a return to ancestral wisdom. That personal healing grew into Urban Yoga Foundation: a nonprofit reclaiming wellness as a form of cultural restoration. Today, we offer The People’s Practice — an approach that fuses yoga, martial arts, sound healing, and storytelling, all grounded in indigenous traditions. This is not performance. It’s not perfection. It’s remembrance.

Our mission: Integrative wellness and mindfulness education.

Urban Yoga Foundation exists to restore balance in the lives of high-functioning adults parents, educators, and professionals who give everything to others and rarely to themselves.We honor the wisdom traditions of African, Indigenous, and diasporic communities, offering accessible, culturally-centered wellness practices that help people

Reclaim spiritual traditions

Reconnect with their bodies and breath

Renew their capacity to care for themselves and others

Our values: Ancestry. Accessibility. Authenticity. Alignment.

The Pyramid of Movement Curriculum

A model for integrated wellness grounded in ancestral systems of mindfulness and integrative wellness.  The Pyramid of Movement is our signature methodology of The Peoples Practice, a framework that weaves together physical, mental, emotional, and cultural healing.
Each layer of the pyramid represents a level of practice:

Presence

Breathing, grounding, and awareness

Practice

Repetition, ritual, and movement

Pedagogy

Teaching and transmitting wisdom

Propagation

Sharing, expanding, and sustaining community impact

By engaging with all four levels, students are guided from individual healing to collective empowerment.

We Are Educators, Artists

Urban Yoga Foundation is powered by a circle of instructors, facilitators, and advisors who bring lived experience, cultural knowledge, and deep care to their work. Together, we hold space for transformation.