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‘Broga: Yoga for the Brothers’: This Class Teaches Black Men To Embrace Yoga To Ease Emotional Stress

"You carry 400 years of wounds and trauma. Feel the pain and weight, but let it go," Doucette tells her participants, according to NBC.

Black men are 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease and 60 percent more likely to die from stroke than non-Hispanic white men, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. And between 15 to 20 percent of Black men go through depression.

Doucette’s classes are offered through her nonprofit, Litehouse Wellness, which works to strengthen the African-American family and community by healing Black men. According to WFAA, dealing with mental and physical health troubles is what brought one participant, Patrick Brown, to her yoga classes.

Source: BET