Title: Breathe, Stretch, Shake & Let It Go: A Yoga Retreat for Women of Color
Date: Sunday, April 3rd
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: UConn Alumni Center: 2384 Alumni Dr, Storrs, CT 06269
To Register: Email Annadell Jaczynski at annadell.jaczynski@uconn.edu to register.
Registration on a first-come first-serve basis. Participation limited to UConn students. Limited = 50 participants.
Cost: FREE
Sponsors: Sisters Inspiring Sisters, SANKOFA, Counseling and Mental Health Services, Women’s Center, African American Cultural Center, Student Activities, Dean of Students Office.
Take a remarkable journey that integrates spirit, soulfulness, and sisterhood with yoga, meditation, movement, breath, and play with renown Yogi, Maya Breuer. This Yoga Retreat for Women of Color calls upon Zora Neal Hurston, Natalie Diaz, Toni Morrison, Marilyn Chin, bell hooks, Maya Angelou, Isabelle Allende, and others to connect and recharge us with their words of wisdom. The Retreat offers yoga and a variety of holistic practices to renew the body, mind, and soul of the woman of color. As a participant, you will learn how to focus on yourself and rediscover who you are as well as how to integrate yoga and other tools for coping with stress into your daily life. Walk and talk your truth in a community of powerful women, and return invigorated and inspired to live your best life.
Maya Breuer is an activist, artist, and originator of the Yoga Retreat for Women of Color™ offered throughout the United States. A yoga teacher and practitioner for more than 20 years, Maya teaches yoga, trains and certifies yoga teachers, and designs individual lifestyle programs. Her contemporary teaching style combines the classical yoga tradition with her experience as an artist and a woman of color, resulting in a sacred-feminine approach to yoga.
For more information, contact: Annadell Jaczynski/CMHS at 860-486-0724/annadell.jaczynski@uconn.edu.