jean-jacques gabriel, EYT-500, the son of painter Jacques Gabriel, began painting before he could walk. He later studied painting and drawing at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While in art school, jean-jacques fell in love with the radical presence and inwardly-aimed embodiment he found in yoga. jean-jacques began teaching yoga while working with Marshall Eddie Conway—a former Black Panther and political prisoner whose mentorship helped root jean-jacques’ wellness work to community care and justice. Those roots have grown to nourish people and groups in public schools, prisons, yoga studios, yoga teacher trainings, retreats, and large festivals. They also call him to serve all, and to center Black bodies in the healing modalities and the trainings he leads. Drawing upon more than two decades of teaching visual art, nonviolent communication, yoga, breathwork, and Thai massage, jean-jacques marries a focus on self-awareness with authentic connection. 

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