Amina Naru
Amina Naru E-RYT, YACEP
Amina is the owner of Posh Yoga and co-founder of Retreat to Spirit in Wilmington Delaware and past executive director of Yoga Service Council. She specializes in trauma sensitive yoga programs for youth and adults in the criminal justice system and is the first black woman to implement curriculum-based yoga and mindfulness programs for juvenile detention centers in the state of Delaware.
Amina is the owner of Posh Yoga and co-founder of Retreat to Spirit in Wilmington Delaware and past executive director of Yoga Service Council. She specializes in trauma sensitive yoga programs for youth and adults in the criminal justice system and is the first black woman to implement curriculum-based yoga and mindfulness programs for juvenile detention centers in the state of Delaware.
Amina served three terms as secretary for the YSC Board of Directors and is a contributing author to the books Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans (YSC/Omega, 2016) and Best Practices for Yoga in the Criminal Justice System (YSC/Omega, 2017). She has served as the project manager for Yoga and Resilience: Empowering Practices for Survivors of Sexual Trauma (YSC/Omega) published by Handspring May 2020. She also served as project manager for Best Practices for Yoga with People in Addictions and Recovery during her YSC tenure.
Amina has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga Therapy Today and on the J. Brown and Yoga Alliance podcasts. She currently serves on the board of directors for Accessible Yoga Association. You can find her Yoga for Self-Care course on Yogajournal.com