Breathwork & Community Grounding: BIPOC ONLY
19th November 2020 | 6pm-8:00pm EST
Join us for a facilitated breathwork session to process some of the grief and racial battle fatigue that come with navigating the multiple crises unfolding before us. We will briefly look at the 400 Years of Inequality timeline as a contemplative tool for deepening conversations about structural inequality and community resiliency. As an option, participants will be able to process and integrate the breathwork experience during small group and whole-group dialogue. The main goal of this session is to provide participants with a generative and restorative experience.
This particular session is for Black, Indeginous and People of Color only. Space for all will be held at a different time.
A ZOOM link will be sent before the gathering.
You can also find the link in the unique Online Event Page for this event within Eventbrite.
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Dates
19th November 2020
Tentative Agenda
6:00-6:10PM
Welcome & Grounding Lecture/Talk
6:10-6:15PM
Short Contemplative Practice & Meditation
6:15-6:20PM
Brief Breathwork Orientation
6:20-6:55PM
Facilitated Breathwork Session
6:55-7:00PM
Contemplative Journaling
Participants will be given the opportunity to connect with others in groups of 2-3
7:00-7:15PM
Community Breakout Sessions (OPTIONAL)
7:15-8:00PM
Breathwork Integration & Collective Closing Discussion (OPTIONAL)
Pre-session Instruction
- Set yourself up in a place where you will be able to lay down comfortably and have privacy when the time comes to breathe.
- Please ask others in your household not to disturb you during the breathwork session.
- Make sure you have whatever you’ll need to support your comfort - water, blankets, pillows, tissues, a journal, whatever else feels right to you to prepare the environment.
- Headphones can also be helpful for audio quality provided the cord is long enough and doesn’t feel like a hindrance.
- Wear comfortable clothes.
- Eat lightly or not at all before the session.
- Refrain from using non-prescription drugs, alcohol, tobacco and caffeine before and immediately after the session.
- If possible, allow time immediately following the session for integration, like: journaling, a walk, some form of creative expression, a few minutes of meditation.
- If you need support following the session, please call or text Sandy Wiggins at email at [email protected]
Facilitators
Anna Davila is a Certified Breathwork Facilitator trained under David Elliott and Erin Telford. She has worked in the medical field for over 10 years and found there was a missing link to achieving overall wellness in herself and the community she served. After going through an extensive personal spiritual journey, Breathwork found her. She began to dig into her own trauma and heal aspects of herself she didn’t know existed.
There was profound shift in her life; Anna knew her next level of service would be holding space for others to experience personal transformation using Breathwork. She has experience with many aspects of trauma including sexual abuse, and she holds a strong, grounded space for magic to unfold and alchemy to take place.
She is committed to serving others by assisting them in stepping into their power, connecting with their intuition and releasing what no longer serves them. She offers one-on-one session and monthly Breathwork Circles. It brings her so much joy to serve others in this capacity.
Angel Acosta has worked to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice and mindfulness. He recently received his doctorate in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. Angel has supported educational leaders and their students by facilitating leadership trainings, creating pathways to higher education, and designing dynamic learning experiences. His dissertation explores healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development.
After participating in the Mind and Life Institute’s Academy for Contemplative Leadership, he began consulting and developing learning experiences that weave leadership development, conversations about inequality and healing to support educational leaders through contemplative and restorative practices. As a former Trustee for the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, he participated as a speaker and discussant at the Asia Pacific Forum on Holistic Education in Kyoto, Japan. Angel continues to consult for organizations like the NYC Department of Education, UNICEF, Columbia University and others.
