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21 | Activism Through Fitness with Sonja Herbert of Black Girl Pilates

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She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re joined by Sonja Herbert. Sonja lives in New York where she is a Pilates instructor, writer, speaker, competitive powerlifter and a former social worker. She is the founder of Commando Fitness Collective and the Black Girl Pilates community on Instagram and Facebook.

Sonja is committed to Black female representation in fitness, as well as improving the health and wellness in the Black community through writing, speaking and curating health and wellness events for Black women. She is comprehensively certified in Pilates, and also holds TRX Level 1 and Kettlebell Concepts Level 1 certifications.

In this episode, we talk about…

  • The importance of Black female representation in fitness.
  • Speaking out against racism in the fitness space.
  • Diversifying the Pilates space.
  • Creating safe spaces for Black women in fitness.

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Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion. This show is dedicated to reinventing

1:06.2

wellness for women of color. I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred.

1:10.3

Hello, hello, it is Lestrandra here. Thank you so much for tuning into the

1:14.9

balance black girl podcast. I am so excited to bring you yet another week of

1:20.0

discussion around wellness and around being a woman of color and wellness and being about that life.

1:30.0

Today's interview was a really fun one and I really loved the conversation that I had with

1:35.2

Sonia Herbert, who is the founder of Black Girl Pilates. She was just so much fun to talk to you.

1:40.7

I learned so much from her and I literally could not think of a better

1:44.8

episode to release during Black History Month than my conversation with Miss Sonia.

1:50.8

But before we dive into our conversation with Sonia, before you get to learn a little bit more about Black

1:56.0

Girl Pilates, which is the organization that she runs, I just wanted to send a sincere thank you to everyone

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