Restorative Justice, Racial Healing & Community Building
Our goal is to be inclusive and build community with participants from different backgrounds, who are seeking a deeper journey inward towards healing and empowerment because everyone needs and deserves peace.
Through these inclusive practices individuals, neighborhoods, public safety officials and organizations can create a sense of belonging and a space for community members to find common ground and to share in a practice of peace building.
It’s important for participants to support one another when facing obstacles like violence, incarceration, immigration, addiction, human trafficking, sexual assault and various other issues that plague communities.
Creating a practice where all individuals and families in a community can come together is community building at its essence. When individuals can offer their talents and gifts to the community, it enhances feelings of belonging and the opportunity to feel valued, seen, heard and integral to the community.
These exercises reduce feelings of isolation and harmful behaviors that can cause unnecessary divisions and fractures in society.. Community building cultivates connection, encourages selfless service and offers the inspiration to “Be the Change.”
Restorative Justice
Racial Healing: Building Resilience and Strength to Love
Traumas are connected to lived experiences, ancestral experiences or transgenerational experiences of oppression and violence, whether structural, environmental, racial or social.
Even though individuals may come from different backgrounds and experiences and may experience different levels of oppression, there is still a connection in regards to the impacts, symptoms and consequences of various oppressions. There are common threads in these experiences that when discovered or acknowledged can lead to individual, communal and collective healing.
Racial healing, building resilience and strength to love are complex. It’s important to make space in the nervous system to do the work of exploring the emotional, physical, mental and emotional toll of racism, bias and unconscious bias. We work through the body and use movement to create space for reflection, activism, spiritual growth and compassion.
Understanding that all oppressions are connected, we use trauma informed yoga and the healing arts as a path into restorative justice to further promote individual and communal healing whether in our local communities or connecting with global communities.. It can create opportunities for unlikely bonds and shared experiences in healing.