Biography

Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe is a professional yoga therapist (1000hr), doula (birthworker), artist, community builder and mama. She has over a decade of experience teaching yoga, completing her first certification in New York City in 2009. In 2011 she co-founded Spice Harmony Yoga in Grenada alongside her parents, who are also certified yoga teachers. Malaika is a current awardee of the Schwartz Teaching for Diversity Grant and Service Practicum from the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.

Through years of offering prenatal yoga at her studio she realized that there are a lack of resources for expecting mothers and their loved ones. Malaika began her path to becoming a doula in 2016 with an intensive led by International Center for Traditional Childbearing . In 2018 she began her latest doula training with Mama Glow. Malaika completed her professional yoga therapy certification at Kripalu in 2020.

Malaika works primarily as a private yoga therapist, developing customized programs for individuals and special populations, and as a guide for wellness events. Her international retreats have been featured in Essence Magazine.

Malaika holds a Bachelors in Studio Art from Smith College, Massachusetts and a Masters in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her photography, film and mixed-media artwork has been exhibited locally and internationally. She is also an member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and the official photographer for the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Conferences. Through the interconnected facets of her work Malaika, seeks to create pathways for her clients and community to feel supported and foster deeper connections with themselves and one another.