Opportunities to connect, learn, and contribute
Events
Wellbeing Series: Ancestral Healing Movement Meditation with Alexis Saenz
Explore personal and ancestral healing through movement in our upcoming workshop, utilizing insights from epigenetics to release old energies and embrace resilience.
Wellbeing Series: Honoring Grief with Sofia Rose Smith
In this one hour practice session, we will take some time to breathe, journal and share about how grief and loss show up for us in our work, in our bodies, and in our lives.
Wellbeing Series: Mindfulness with Mel Mah
We'll explore what it means to be mindful and how this wide-ranging topic can enhance every aspect of our lives. This session will consist of gentle breath work, meditation, journaling, and intentional discussion.
Wellbeing Series: Unlikely Yoga - Big Movement in Small Spaces with Jessica Rihal
This is going to be a practice that can be done seated and standing from any location where space is a limitation and a yoga mat/floor space may not be accessible. This practice will be suitable for all levels.
Wellbeing Series: Honoring Yourself While Helping Others with Angel Towler
Participants will explore the often overlooked mental, physical, and emotional toll of the valuable work they do, with a focus on the unique challenges faced by BIPOC workers.
Wellbeing Series: Energy Healing and Herbs for Self-Regulation with Andrea Penagos
Delve into profound energy healing secrets with Andrea Penagos, L.Ac., and explore the transformative world of herbal wisdom. Equip yourself with practices and insights to navigate daily stress, whether at work or at play.
Wellbeing Series: Finding Your Ease in the Struggle
Explore breath work, nutrition, sleep, and exercise.
Wellbeing Series: Intentions as Medicine with Zami Hyemingway
Join us on a unique journey into the realm of daily intention setting, inspired by Yoruba practices. You'll discover the art of speaking to your indwelling spirit, a method designed to reshape your internal narrative, foster healing, and empower personal growth.
Wellbeing Series: Pranayama Tools for Anxiety with Melissa Shah
In this workshop, participants will learn about how anxiety impacts the body and mind from a yogic and Ayurvedic lens, and will learn how to use the breath to nurture the process of letting go.
Wellbeing Series: Pleasure Plants - Botanicals for Beauty and Self-Love
Join Sade in a demonstration of how these plants can be crafted into natural products such as herbal oils and facial masks.
Wellbeing Series: Getting Real in the Age of AI with Susan X Jane
We'll explore the concept of reality and how to navigate the rise of AI. Together we'll practice ways to ground ourselves in authenticity and wholeness.
Wellbeing Series: Time Travel & Dreaming for Liberation with Audrey Kuo
This session will offer participants a guided meditation to visit past and future experiences of liberation.
Wellbeing Series: Be-friending the Body with Dora Kamau
In this session, learn how to begin creating a more compassionate relationship with your body utilizing gentle breathing exercises, mindfulness, intentional group dialogue, and self-reflection.
Wellbeing Series: Deep Medicine Soulstainable Practice with Amiyoko Shabazz and LaRae Cantley
We’ll explore ways community solidarity can foster healing when faced with social, cultural and systemic barriers.
Wellbeing Series: Pods & Podmapping with Mia Mingus
This will be an introduction to the concept of pods: how it came to be, how it can be used, lessons learned, and how to map your pods.
Wellbeing Series: Cultivating Emotional Well-Being with Siedeh Foxie
By tapping into our emotional intelligence systems and befriending the body, we’ll engage in a practice to broaden our perspective of self-healing and remembrance.
Wellbeing Series: Connect to the Earth with Lama Rod Owens
In this practice session, we will work to connect to the earth to experience a sense of care and holding during these times of intense disruption.
Wellbeing Series - Processing It All: Herbs for Digestive and Nervous Support with La Loba Loca
In this workshop, we will learn about herbs that can support our digestive and nervous systems.
Wellbeing Series: From Coping to Thriving - Self Care Practices During Times of Crises with Kazu Haga
In this session, we will begin to discern the differences between coping and thriving strategies, share with other participants the tools that work for you, and to map out a strategy for self-care. We need to take care of ourselves so that we can contribute to a thriving world.
Wellbeing Series: Radical Imagination with Nicole Cardoza
In this session, Nicole will illuminate the skills we need to move forward to build a practice that centers our collective wellbeing.
Building Ojas: An Ayurvedic Approach to Wellbeing with Nicole Taylor
Join Ayurvedic Health Counselor Nicole Taylor for an interactive session on cultivating well-being the Ayurvedic way. You’ll learn about ojas--the vital sap that keeps our immunity and equanimity intact. You’ll leave with practical ways to refill your inner well of vitality so that you can do your healing and social justice work in a sustainable way.
Reconnect: An Ancient Tool for Modern Living and Connection with Natalie Patterson
By fostering attentive listening and authentic expression, Council builds relationships between participants and neutralizes hierarchical dynamics formed by the inequality of status, race, or other social factors.
Care Don’t Carry: Energetic Boundaries for Empathic Leaders & Helping Professionals with Charlotte Nguyen
This workshop will empower you with holistic healing tools so you can easily and ethically help others while enjoying your personal relationships much more.
Earth Healing with Jordi
Join us for a brief astrological report about the symbolism of the seasons and celestial events that can aid you with practical moves in your life. The workshop will include meditation of sound, breath, affirmation, exploration of herbs, animal stories, and practices you can do to tap into yourself during this time.
Wellbeing Series - The End: A New Beginning with Susan X Jane
The end is always a place of new beginnings. We'll talk about all we can learn from stories about the end and find ways we can make our current apocalypse a place for hope, imagination, and change.
Wellbeing Series: Healing Justice and Wellness in Social Justice Movements with Dr. Melina Abdullah
Dr. Melina Abdullah will lead us in an exploration of healing justice and wellness in social justice movements.
Wellbeing Series: Interconnectivity and Trusting Sources with Tina Orduno Calderon
Tina will guide us in meditative stress release and share ancestral teachings of interconnectivity to all, connecting with ancestors, and trusting source for guidance, healing and protection.
Wellbeing Series: Tai Chi and Qi Gong with Hakim Tafari
Hakim Tafari will lead us in an introduction to the practice of Qi gong and Tai Chi Chuan
Wellbeing Series: Tap in with dr. shena young
dr shena young will lead us in a workshop exploring practical tools for nourishing our nervous systems
Wellbeing Series: Healing Medicine with Syd Yang
Syd Yang (they/them) will share the importance of healing medicine.
Let's Pause: Engaging Radical Rest + Relaxation
The language of healing justice, collective care, and radical rest has become more common and pervasive within social justice organizations. At the same time, self-care is being marketed to us all, as something we can easily access through the click of a "buy now" button or the application of a face mask. Discovering what sustainable rest and pause looks like for each of us in a practical way is located somewhere in the middle. This workshop will engage us in individual and collective practices that guide us towards full-bodied rest.
Syd Yang (they/them) is a mixed-race/Taiwanese American organizer, writer, and queer healer who is currently in an M.Div program for Buddhist chaplaincy. Syd is the founder of Blue Jaguar Healing Arts, a liberation-centered practice that nurtures spiritual and community-based support for individuals healing trauma and emotional wounds. Syd also recently served as a Senior Philanthropic Advisor and the Senior Advisor for Healing Justice and Wellness at Movement Voter Project (MVP). Over the years, Syd has worked extensively with BIPOC, queer and trans folks + emerging artists as a counselor and coach, as well as a philanthropic advisor and giving coach to foundations, families + young inheritors working to align their resources and power with social justice values. In all areas of their work, Syd supports individuals and communities in transforming resources, energies, and stories in ways that move towards wholeness, regeneration, and collective liberation.
SVPLA’s Wellbeing Series is a free, monthly workshop introducing a variety of healing modalities to workers in the homeless response sector, as part of our Racial Equity in Homelessness Initiative. These sessions promote personal rest, renewal, and connection creating space for discussion on how to sustain wellbeing practices.
Wellbeing Series: Radical Honesty with adrienne maree brown
How can we be well when we are not being honest with ourselves or others about how we feel and what we need? adrienne maree brown will share practices towards emotional and present time honesty.