This Is Not Your Typical Wellness Story. Rebel, Healer, Disruptor with Tendai Angela Rokkones
In this episode of Overnight Wisdom, Chisom sits with Tendai Angela Rokkones, Zimbabwe’s first Black certified female yoga teacher, to explore healing, self-discovery, and spiritual reclamation. Tendai shares her journey from studying law to building a wellness practice rooted in yoga, community, and resistance, while reflecting on motherhood, softness, and leadership. Together, they discuss reclaiming wellness spaces and the radical power of healing, joy, and intentional living.
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Show Notes
This episode of Overnight Wisdom with Tendai Angela Rokkones is a radiant, soul-baring conversation between two women who hold deep reverence for self-discovery, ancestral wisdom, and spiritual reclamation.
Tendai, Zimbabwe’s first Black certified female yoga teacher, shares her remarkable journey from studying law to building a healing-centered wellness business rooted in yoga, community, and rebellion. Through stories of her mother’s recovery, the sacredness of soft Black womanhood, and balancing motherhood, marriage, and leadership, she speaks of how yoga became a political and spiritual act of resistance.
The conversation explores how Black and African bodies have been historically excluded from wellness spaces, and how Tendai disrupts this through visibility, softness, and intentional presence. She and Chisom dive into the intersection of business, motherhood, joy, and legacy - how holding space for others requires an ocean-deep well of self-awareness, ritual, and boundaries.
The episode ends with powerful affirmations, embodied wisdom, and a reminder that healing, courage, and softness are radical acts - and also our birthright.
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