Biography

Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe is a professional yoga therapist (1000hr), pregnancy, labour & postpartum doula and new mama. She has over a decade of experience teaching yoga. Malaika was recognized internationally as one of 20 Yoga Teachers of Color to Watch in 2020 and was also a yoga teacher for Microsoft at the Ignite Conference. In 2011 she co-founded Spice Harmony Yoga in Grenada alongside her parents, who are also certified yoga teachers. 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 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 an 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.