Community Highlights: Meet Britteny Floyd-Mayo of Trap Yoga Bae

Today we’d like to introduce you to Britteny Floyd-Mayo. Them and their team share their story with us below:

Britteny Floyd-Mayo, affectionately known as “Yoga Bae”, is the mastermind behind one of the most diverse and inclusive wellness spaces across the globe. In her untouchable lane, she’s curated a digital and in-person yoga experience designed to affirm lifestyles of wellness and total self-care. Mentioned in Forbes as one of the top 8 Black Wellness experts to have on your radar and recently appearing in Issa Rae’s HBO Max show “Sweet Life,” Britteny Floyd-Mayo known as Trap Yoga Bae® is bridging the gap between self-care and cultural relevance. Trap Yoga Bae® introduces those who feel ostracized from the typical Yogi experience to the idea that self-care looks like “YOU.” Britteny attended Dillard University and Holy Names University, where she studied Positive Psychology and Social Behavioral Studies. This serial entrepreneur and mother of two dropped life as she knew it to travel to India, where she was certified in Vinyasa, for the quintessential “Who am I?” quest.

On this journey, she found herself. She put her ideas of living her best life into practice by filing for divorce from her abusive relationship and dropping out of her medical program in hopes of taking others who identified with her story on a journey to live their best lives too! Since that achievement, she’s educated, instructed, connected, and partnered with 60,000+ combined brands and individuals around the world. In addition to yoga, Britteny has also perfected the craft of oration. With expertise as a power-packed speaker and voice for her generation, this maven has filled in-person and digital audiences spanning more than 20 million attendees.

Britteny has wowed the masses as a featured artist and speaker for events put on by Brit + Co, Eventbrite, Lululemon, Black Girls Code, Black Joy Parade, the 25th Annual Essence Festival, and many more. This yogi is motivating the masses with her intellectually crafted speeches, exuberant personality, and heart to foster a community of inclusion for all.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
As humans, we all want to be a part of a community collective, and I chose yoga as my community. It was hard for me at the beginning of Trap Yoga Bae® when much of the yoga community was very judgmental of my choice of language and music in my yoga classes, but what I realized was most important to me was cultivating a community of people who I felt truly aligned with. I stopped focusing on trying to join the yoga community and instead built a community of bomb-ass people who could potentially love what I was building. I wanted to create something that people felt more culturally aligned with as opposed to the person that introduced them to the practice of yoga and self-care.

We’ve been impressed with Trap Yoga Bae, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My company started off as a touring your brand. When I think about Trap Yoga, it’s different than most other yoga experiences. Even after creating the brand seven years later and having hundreds of people try to mimic the class, there isn’t anything quite like it. I mix in music, transcending beyond just trap music, and lean into good music that tells a story that gets you excited. I pile on ratchet affirmations, which is my way of giving advice that feels like therapy with your homegirl, and I just might teach you how to twerk a little bit. Those affirmations are created to help you better explore who you are because I believe that the closest thing to getting you to be more confident is self-acceptance. These pieces of advice and sayings and the way they are integrated into the yoga practice is a lot like what it’s like to work with me in the other branch of my business, which is confidence coaching. I teach women how to be more confident through self-acceptance and boundary-setting. My physical classes are the movement peace and what I get to do with my coaching clients is more immersive because it’s a 90-day journey versus the yoga class, which is a 60-minute igniter.

Contact Info:

• Website: trapyogabae.com
• Instagram: @trapyogabae