🌟 About Majestic Community Wellness
Empowering communities. Expanding access. Transforming wellness into a path for all.
✨ Our Mission & Vision
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Our Mission
Majestic Community Wellness is dedicated to diversifying, democratizing, and expanding the wellness industry to improve health outcomes for all individuals, regardless of age, body type, gender, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background. We offer free yoga and wellness programs to historically excluded communities, and train the next generation of Black, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and marginalized leaders to lead healing where it’s needed most.
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Our Vision
We envision a future where wellness is a right—not a luxury. By offering free, community-rooted programs and fair-pay opportunities for local instructors, we’re building a more inclusive and resilient wellness ecosystem across Greater Boston.
💛 Our Core Values
At Majestic Community Wellness, our work is grounded in more than programming — it’s guided by purpose. These six core values shape everything we do, from how we design classes to how we train new leaders and build relationships with our community partners.
They are not just words — they are the principles we live by, teach from, and grow through.
🌱 Empowerment
Training local leaders to bring wellness home.
🧘♂️ Accessibility
Free, high-quality classes for all.
⚖️ Equity
Breaking barriers in the wellness industry.
🤝 Collaboration
Co-creating with community partners.
💖 Compassion
Grounding healing in empathy and care.
🧭 Integrity
Staying honest, transparent, and mission-driven.
🌱 Why We Exist
The wellness industry, as it stands today, is not built for everyone.
In many communities, particularly Black and brown neighborhoods, yoga studios are scarce — often located in affluent areas that are physically, financially, or culturally out of reach. Even when access is possible, wellness spaces can feel unwelcoming to those who don’t fit the narrow image of “wellness” so often portrayed: white, thin, affluent, and able-bodied.
These exclusions aren’t just surface-level — they reflect deeper systemic imbalances. In the U.S., Black and brown individuals are twice as likely to suffer from chronic illnesses. For many, access to traditional healthcare is limited by lack of insurance, inadequate mental health services, food and housing insecurity, and the daily realities of stress and systemic racism. Wellness practices like yoga, mindfulness, and breathwork can be powerful tools for healing — but only if they’re made accessible, inclusive, and culturally resonant.
Majestic Community Wellness (MCW) was founded to change that.
We exist to transform who wellness is for, how it’s delivered, and who gets to lead it.
A Note from Our Founder – Lindsay Gibson
“Thirty years ago, I opened Majestic Yoga with one intention: to create a safe and welcoming space where everyone — regardless of body type, ethnicity, gender, or ability — could experience the healing power of yoga. Over the years, I’ve had the deep honor of mentoring Black women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and students from all walks of life, helping them step into leadership roles in the wellness space.”
In 2024, I launched Majestic Community Wellness, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, to take that vision even further — beyond the studio walls and directly into underserved communities.
MCW is built on a simple but revolutionary belief: wellness should be a right, not a luxury. We’re partnering with grassroots leaders and trusted organizations — like the Cambridge Community Center, Tufts Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice, and Roxbury Neighborhood Birth Center — to bring free, trauma-informed yoga, mindfulness, and holistic health education to where it’s needed most.
We’re also investing in the next generation of wellness leaders — training BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and systemically marginalized individuals to become certified teachers and community healers. These graduates return to their neighborhoods not just to teach, but to lead, to empower, and to create spaces where people feel seen, supported, and safe.
Majestic Community Wellness is a movement to reclaim wellness — to make it more representative, more just, and more rooted in community.
– Lindsay Gibson
Founder & Executive Director
Majestic Community Wellness
“Wellness should be a right, not a luxury.”
~Lindsay Gibson, MCW
🌿 Training the Next Generation of Wellness Leaders
Most yoga teacher trainings teach postures. A few teach philosophy. But very few prepare students — especially those from marginalized backgrounds — to actually step into leadership roles, build a sustainable teaching practice, or feel truly supported beyond graduation.
At Majestic Community Wellness, we do all of this — and more.
Our trauma-informed, inclusive 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training is designed to uplift BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented individuals. But we don’t just hand our graduates a certificate and send them out to teach in gyms or adult centers with no direction.
Instead, we create a space where every body is welcomed, where each trainee is seen, heard, and supported. We guide our students in developing their own voice and teaching style. We offer deep mentorship throughout the training and long after it ends — through monthly group mentoring, one-on-one support, and community check-ins.
Most importantly, we offer real, paid teaching opportunities. Graduates have the opportunity to teach with MCW at a competitive wage, bringing accessible, community-rooted classes to neighborhoods across Greater Boston.
Our program doesn’t just certify teachers — it builds leaders, healers, and entrepreneurs who are ready to transform the wellness space from the inside out..
“At MCW, our graduates aren’t told to figure it out on their own — they’re guided, mentored, and hired.”
Lindsay and the other teachers at MCW helped me find my voice and speak my truth. Through their guidance, I gained the confidence to teach in a way that honors my ancestors and reflects who I truly am. Now I’m able to help others find strength in themselves — just like I did.”
— Taneisha F.
MCW Teacher Training Graduate
“It felt like coming home to myself. For the first time, I was guided by someone who truly understood what we carry as women of color.”
— Liza N.
Community Class Participant
