Mandala training in Atlanta.

Atlanta's wellness market has grown faster over the past decade than nearly any other U.S. metro. The city's Black wellness community, in particular, has been building a generation of practitioners and lineage holders whose work is reshaping the national conversation. Our Atlanta cohorts often include nurses, educators, and entrepreneurs in active career transition.

For students of Mandala specifically, Atlanta's scene is a particularly good match: fastest-growing wellness market in the southeast. strong, distinct practitioner voices. The local cohort runs in venue partners around Midtown, Old Fourth Ward, Decatur, with public transit and parking accessible from across the metro.

Atlanta students are often 30-50, with strong representation from healthcare (Emory and the metro hospital system are major employers), education, hospitality, and entrepreneurship. The Atlanta cohorts are unusually diverse — recent cohorts have been roughly 40% Black, 40% white, 20% Latina/other — and that diversity shapes the conversations meaningfully. Many of our Atlanta students are actively building wellness businesses serving specific cultural communities.