Charles Bolling II is a certified yoga teacher, neighborhood organizer, and healer based in Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia. Their pronouns are they/them.

After graduating from Armstrong High School in 2014, Charles attended a discipleship school in Humboldt County, California. Those years were formative and also painful. They came through that season carrying a lot around their identity as a Black queer person, and carrying the kind of spiritual harm that can happen when institutions aren’t safe for the people inside them.

In 2016, Charles found yoga again. This time it felt safe. This time it felt like liberation. But the lack of diversity was still there, still real, still a barrier for people who looked like them and the communities they love.

In 2020, during the uprising for racial justice, Charles led a meditation at a teach-in that changed the course of their life. That moment earned them a scholarship for yoga teacher training, and they haven’t looked 

Since then, Charles has founded Radical Yogi, a platform exploring the intersection of yoga, mindfulness, and social change, and co-founded Every Table, a worshiping community rooted in radical hospitality and collective liberation. They are also co-founder of The Clearing Space, a yoga and wellness studio in development in Richmond.

Charles practices because they believe radical self-care is a path to liberation. They teach because they want to help liberate other people. They are training to become a yoga therapist because they want to help liberate their communities.