With a background in community health and education, Felicia integrates trauma-informed wellness with Raja Yoga.
For over 30 years Felicia has transformed lives with embodied antiracist organizing through Raja Yoga. Standing firm on the belief that we are all bound and dehumanized by systems of oppression, she envisions a humankind where we have dismantled these systems of oppression and humanely rebuilt new systems together.
A wellness thought leader and yoga guide, her integrative practice ranges from individual to corporate wellness, centered in communities of accountability. Since founding YogaRoots On Location, Felicia has worked with local and national partners including the Allegheny County Health Department’s Maternal and Child Health Department, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Division, Shuman Juvenile Detention Center, University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Child Development, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Repair The World, The Kingsley Association, The Pittsburgh Study, and Bike Pittsburgh to unpack racist, capitalist, and patriarchal systems of oppression. Her incredibly vulnerable practice invites breath, meditation, movement, and discussion as a platform to navigate trauma.
In addition to being awarded a Positive Racial Identity Development in Early Education (P.R.I.D.E.) Artist-In-Residence in 2017 and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s F.I.N.E. Artist-in-Residence, 2017–2018, Felicia was recognized as a 2018 Onyx Women Network Woman to Watch. In 2018 and 2019, Felicia was selected to participate in both Alisha B. Wormsley’s “The People Are The Light” and “There Are Black People in the Future” as an Artist-in Residence. In 2019, she was honored by Creative Mornings as a featured speaker, and, additionally, in 2019 as a co-keynote speaker at the University of Pittsburgh’s Reflective Supervision Symposium and as a keynote speaker for Remake Learning on Social-Emotional Learning. Felicia holds a Master of Elementary Education, is a 500-hour Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT), a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), and a Certified Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. She is the Founder and CEO of YogaRoots On Location, LLC® and its 200-hour Certified Registered AntiRacist Raja Yoga School.
Felicia is honored to be married to Martin Lee Friedman, a white Abolitionist Storyteller and AntiRacist Trainer. They are blessed with two adult children: Cleveland, an Independent Inventor in Minneapolis, MN and Maya, the Director of Training with YogaRoots On Location, Pittsburgh, PA..
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