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05/21/2022

Day 2 of Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Master Class Weekend starts in less than an hour. Get Your Tickets Today: https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

05/20/2022

Tonight: Chronic Joint Pain? Join us tonight to learn how to get relief.

"New Self-Care Options for the Physical & Emotional Trauma of Chronic Pain" presented by Dr. Dotty Atkins, Holos Touch, LLC

Fri, May 20, 6-8pm EDT - Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Month - Master Class Weekend

Register today for part or all of Master Class Weekend: https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

05/19/2022

Jacqui Johnson, SankofaHealingStudio.org
presents: "Holding Space Not Sessions" at Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Month - Master Class Weekend Saturday, May 21, 2022 12:45 - 2:00 pm EDT Register today for part or all of Master Class Weekend: https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

12:45 -2:00 Jacqui Johnson, LPC, NCC, CCMHC, PMH-C, RYT Holding Space Not Sessions

Founder/Clinical Director of Sankofa Healing Studio

Jacqui Johnson, a Somatic Social-Justice Art + Play Therapist, prioritizes the need to bridge the Black mental health access gap while upending oppression within healing spaces. Her advanced training in multiple evidence-based modalities informs her unique holistic style blending Art, Play, Storytelling, Hip-Hop, Brainspotting, EMDR, and Energy-based practices. Jacqui is an educator who lectures widely, provides supervision, consultation, and leads international initiatives that increase training accessibility to Therapists of Color.

Jacqui’s expertise and community work is rooted in the importance of gender and trauma-responsive care. She addresses head-on the complex intersectionality of adverse childhood experiences, race, community violence, and the (in)justice system. This belief is what led her to work with people within the criminal justice system. Jacqui developed and facilitates trauma-responsive art therapy groups at the Philadelphia county jail for women and incarcerated youth, addressing the unique challenges that individuals with trauma, compounded by incarceration, face. She believes that reclaiming our past, provides us with valuable knowledge to protect our future, while understanding and shifting our present condition.

*Art Therapy, Play Therapy, Hip-Hop Therapy, EMDR & Brainspotting, Sound & Energy Healing, Reiki, Certified Kemetic Yoga Instructor, Educator, Consultant **Limited therapy slots** https://sankofahealingstudio.org/

05/19/2022

Join Yan Q. Huo, Art of Wellness for "7 Principles of Lifestyle Medicine for Emotional and Spiritual Healing" at Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Master Class Weekend
May 21, 2022, 11:30-12:45pm EDT. Register today for part or all of Master Class Weekend: https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

Yan Q. Huo is a Tri-lingual, bi-cultural Asian American, with a license in professional counseling and is a holistic nutrition specialist. She has 22 years of mental health experiences working with all various populations, acute and chronic illness. She also has her Post-Master's degree in Couple and Family Therapy, helping individuals and families heal generational trauma. She specializes in trauma and addiction treatment and cross cultural/diversity training. She has a decade of experiences working with refugees and asylees from Southeast Asian countries with the collaboration of interpreters. She appeared as a guest lecturer for various graduate programs in the greater Philadelphia area addressing appropriate AAPI Mental Health treatment. She is also a consultant for corporate training for various topics, including Implicit Bias and Microaggression. She is the founder of Art of Wellness, a clinical practice focuses on lifestyle medicine treatment approach to achieve balance of the mind, body, and spirit. This approach integrates daily rituals, holistic nutrition, environment, relationships, and genetics to address the whole person.

05/19/2022

Marie Amey-Taylor, EdD marie.ameytaylor presents "Racial Identity Excavation: A Tool for Healing - An Inoculation from Dis-ease"
Sat, May 21, 2022 10:15 am EDT

Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Month - Master Class Weekend - Register today for part or all of Master Class Weekend: https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

10:15 - 11:30 Marie Amey-Taylor EdD - "Racial Identity Excavation: A Tool for Healing - An Inoculation from Dis-ease"

Founding Partner/Principal, InterACTion Consulting Group

A professional development consulting practice specializing in interpersonal relations, diversity, equity and inclusion interventions, programs and initiatives Dr. Amey-Taylor is an Adjunct Professor, Adult and Organizational Development Program, Department of Psychological, Organizational and Leadership Studies, College of Education and Human Development, Temple University; Executive Coach, Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Bryn Mawr College; Learning & Development Consultant, Temple University; and the Former Assistant Vice President, Learning & Development, HR, Temple University. She is also the Founder and Director of InterACTion Improvisational Theater Troupe, a diverse theatrical ensemble of actors/facilitators with extensive backgrounds in organizational development and training, human services program design/coordination and cultural and medical anthropology.

She is included on the City of Philadelphia’s website, https://www.phila.gov/2018-05-03-resources-for-diversity-and-inclusion-training/ This resource list offered by the Office of the Mayor identifies resource organizations and individuals who have provided Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, implicit bias, and related topics to the City of Philadelphia, partner organizations, and area businesses. Marie has provided these services to a wide range of corporate, government, public and private education, and human services organizations throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East. Recent clients include but are not limited to: Philadelphia Zoo, Philadelphia Gas Works, Philadelphia Mummers, Curtis Institute of Music, Temple Health System, Einstein Healthcare System, Lehigh Community Foundation, the Education Law Center, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Philabundance, Behavioral Wellness Center at Girard and the Kornberg School of Dentistry, Temple University.

Publication: Amey-Taylor, Marie. "Diversity trainers: Personal profiles, paradigms, and practices." (1998): 2036-2036. Google Books: https://books.google.com/books/about/Diversity_Trainers.html?id=v2ZgHwAACAAJ-

05/19/2022

"New Self-Care Options for the Physical & Emotional Trauma of Chronic Pain" presented by Dr. Dotty Atkins, Holos Touch, LLC - Fri, May 20, 6-8pm EDT - Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Month - Master Class Weekend
Register today for part or all of Master Class Weekend: https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

Dorothea Atkins, ThD, BSN, MA, LMT, Founder and CEO of Holos Touch LLC, teaches and empowers easy self-help options for chronic joint pain relief.

Dr. Atkins has combined her career as a nurse, teacher, massage therapist, and researcher to re-think our current healthcare system of managing chronic joint pain. Her belief in the body’s ability to heal led to her doctoral dissertation research on “The Effects of Self-Massage on Osteoarthritis of the Knee: a Randomized, Controlled Trial” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3577640/.

This patient-centered transformational mind and body self-care option is not a replacement for conventional pain management. Instead, a drug-less complement to physical therapy, exercise, weight loss, treatments, walking, yoga, etc. This self-empowering transformational self-help method of pain relief has taught thousands of patients via workshops and individual instruction to healthcare professionals, athletics, workplace wellness “lunch and learn,” seniors, and more in the past fifteen years.

At Holos Touch, we focus on understanding the function of muscles, massage, and the various self-massage techniques that provides immediate self-care relief from pain. The methods are safe, effective, proven, and can be done anytime and anywhere. She wears an anatomy suit when teaching groups to provide an engaging hands-on learning experience. Our motto: Your pain. Your touch. Your relief. https://holostouch.com/

05/19/2022

Tomorrow - Friday, May 20 5:30pm EDT
Join Amy Thiessen, Coach | Performer | Facilitator - In Resonance Coaching & (Artist) Sundari Studios as she presents "Healing Effects of Singing" at Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Month - Master Class Weekend

https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

Each voice carries a unique gift - a resonance which we offer through word, expression, & communication. With over 15 years of experience as a musician, yoga teacher, coach & facilitator Amy uses a holistic approach to awaken voice through the integration of somatic awareness, discernment, devotion, & vocal techniques. Through individual (In Resonance) coaching & group programs (Embodied Voice / Rise in Resonance) participants develop the skills & awareness to more fluently express themselves with clarity, creativity, & impact.

Thiessen offers her own unique voice under the artist name ‘Sundari Studios.’ Equipped with a guitar, keyboard, drum machine & loop pedal Sundari Studios offers hypnotic soundscapes of devotion - standing alone in concert or in collaboration with movement practices - to inspire the body & spirit into new visceral depths.

Amy’s live performances & workshops have been offered along international teachers Janet Stone, Megan Currie, & Ally Bogard & at various festivals & conferences including Ted X, Wanderlust, Prairie Love, & It’s time to Bloom. Her most recent Album “Pray” is available on Spotify & iTunes under ‘Sundari Studios’ https://www.amythiessen.com/

05/13/2022

Just One Week Until Healing Bodies of Color - Mental Health Awareness Master Class Weekend May 20-21, 2022. Get Your Tickets Today: https://tinyurl.com/HealingBodiesofColorTkts

01/04/2022

Great quote!

Today we honor the life and legacy of American actress and comedian .

A pioneer of early television, Betty was a vocal advocate for gender equality throughout her career. She is a who lived a life well lived and well loved. Rest in power.

09/25/2021

Join us for Healing Bodies of Color Virtual Trauma Summit, Wed, Sept 29 - Fri, Oct 1. The Summit will bring together over 40 speakers -- doctors, lawyers, authors, musicians, clinicians, practitioners, students, athletes, and others who have gone through challenging situations and are willing to share their transformational journey of how they healed from the hurts and trauma. We hope you will join us for some or all of this powerful informational and empowerment summit. Session recordings are included in the ticket price. Discount Code: whova20off good for this weekend only or BOGO 1/2 off. Tag someone who should be there. Register Today: https://whova.com/web/hboct_202109/

09/08/2021