Our Teachers

Dr. Kecia Brooks-Smith-Lowe
Advanced Teacher of Purna Yoga (CYT 500)

I started to practice yoga in 1992 at Yoga and Meditation Center of Montclair in New Jersey. During that time I was doing my medical residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. The yoga classes helped me to relax and maintain my sanity during that stressful period. I came home in September 1999 to start the Brooks-Smith Lowe Institute. I continued to practice yoga at home with DVD’s since there were no classes available in Grenada at the time. Eventually, however, I wanted to deepen my practice and to be able to introduce patients to the healthful practice of Yoga. I completed a 500 hour teacher training at The College of Purna Yoga in Bellevue Washington on 12th September 2009.  It is a pleasure to introduce the practice and philosophy of yoga to residents of Grenada. I am hopeful that the practice will be embraced by people from all strata of our society. 

Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe
Professional Yoga Therapist (1000hr)
Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Doula

Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe is a professional yoga therapist (1000hr), pregnancy, labour & postpartum doula and new mama. She has over a decade of experience teaching yoga, completing her first certification in New York City in 2009. In 2011 she co-founded Spice Harmony Yoga in Grenada alongside her parents, who are also certified yoga teachers. Through years of offering prenatal yoga at her studio she realized that there are a lack of resources for expecting mothers and their loved ones. Malaika began her path to becoming a doula in 2016 with an intensive led by International Center for Traditional Childbearing . In 2018 she began her latest doula training with Mama Glow. Malaika completed her professional yoga therapy certification at Kripalu in 2020.

Malaika holds a Bachelors in Studio Art from Smith College, Massachusetts and a Masters in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her photography, film and mixed-media artwork has been exhibited locally and internationally. She is also an member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists and the official photographer for the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Conferences. Through the interconnected facets of her work Malaika, seeks to create pathways for her clients and community to feel supported and foster deeper connections with themselves and one another.  www.malaikabsl.com

Ferron C. Lowe Esq.
Kripalu Yoga Teacher (KYT 200)

My first experience with the practice of yoga was with George Henry at the old Teacher Training College in Tanteen, Grenada in the mid 1980’s. That experience made me eager to explore this ancient science. While visiting my wife in New Jersey in the summer of 1991 I started to attend an Iyengar Yoga Class at Yoga and Meditation Center of Montclair. My interest in yoga was heightened by this experience under the tutelage of Susan Morton. I knew then that not only did I want to continue to practice yoga, but I also aspired to become a yoga teacher. That aspiration was manifested in July 2012 when I successfully completed a 200 hour Teacher Training course at the Kripalu School of Yoga in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Yoga is love, compassion, and life. I look forward to sharing that with my students.