Melanated Womxn Resting, Melanted Womxn Rising
with Keisha Turner

November's class is led by Marissa Rivera-Davis. Join us for 60 minutes of Zumba and 30 minutes for discussion. Meet at Her 365 Fitness at 1573 Tara Hill Dr. in Pinole. There is plenty of free parking!
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More About Marissa: 

Marissa Rivera-Davis (she/her) is a certified womxn's wellness & fitness coach, licensed Zumba® Fitness instructor, and the founder of Her365 Fitness, a studio/gym & wellness community for womxn.Marissa helps busy and overworked womxn develop intuitive self-care practices around eating, movement (and rest) so they can finally break free from the harmful cycles of dieting and the pursuit of body-image "ideals."She advocates for and supports womxn in learning to practice self-compassion, self-exploration, and self-trust, so they feel empowered to live authentically and more joyfully in the body they have right now.Marissa identifies as queer and Afro-Latina and is the mother of 3 humans and several furry, shelled, and finned animals. She lives her life guided by her intuition and an innate desire to spread joy through dance.

December's class will be Yoga led by Satya in Oakland or Berkeley. More info soon.

Please text or call Satya the morning of if you get lost. 510-459-0144. Masks required. We will have air flow and hepa air filters. Please bring water, tennis shoes, a journal and pen, and a blanket or chair.

Explore our shared and diverse experience as womxn of color, celebrate our beauty, and connect to ancestral wisdom in these soulful Sunday sessions. Ground, heal, and energize your body with trauma-informed movement for all-levels of experience. Stay for tea and discussion. Each session will be led by Satya (Yoga and meditation) or another womxn of color. 

This retreat is reserved for self-identifying womxn of color. Womxn or women includes Trans womxn, gender non-binary, genderqueer, gender fluid, cis-gendered womxn, and gender expansive or anyone who has had an experience of feeling marginalized because of the way they move in the world as a womxn. Womxn of all levels of experience, 15+ in age, religions, abilities, immigration statuses, sizes, and sexual orientations are welcome and celebrated.  

 Have a location to offer? Want us to come to your hood? Want to sponsor a womxn of color? Reach out. 

Satya de la Paz August (she/her) is first and foremost a student of Yoga and life. She is also a a Queer, Multiracial, Black Womxn, trailblazer, healer, and community/joy/radical self-love advocate. Offering 14 years of experience teaching Yoga, dance, and meditation, she infuses dynamic alignment, chanting, storytelling, and community-building into her classes. Satya offers Yoga as a means of collective and personal liberation and decolonization: accessing our innate healing capacity through therapeutics and compassion, meeting media-driven body shame through mindfulness and affirmation, freeing the heart of resentment and blame, and healing the mind of ableist and hierarchical ways of moving and acting. Multiple expressions of poses are offered as students are encouraged to listen to their own body wisdom and access needs. Satya is deeply grateful for her mentor, Abby Tucker, as well as all of her dharma and movement teachers, Sally Kempton, Rob Preece, and Sianna Sherman. Honoring the traditions of Hatha Yoga, Tantra Yoga, and Tibetan Buddhism, she empowers multiracial, multi-gender, and multigenerational groups to awaken their true nature of awareness and bliss. Off the mat, Satya is active in social justice movements, gardens, and cooks.

Check Satya out on instagram @soulflowoakland 

Please pay full price if you have access to your own home, vehicle, or make more than $35,000/year without a lot of debt or medical expenses. Each class has a few discounted passes.  We invite you to stretch what you have to offer to support Black entrepreneurship. Please give from the heart and an amount that feels good to you. Please consider that you may be taking a spot away from someone else if you can give more. If the discount code doesn't work it means all of them have been used this month. 

$0 

Discount code: blackwomxn3

 Refugees, those impacted by state violence, queer people impacted by instability and/or displacement due to homophobia/transphobia/biphobia, lack of stable housing, unemployed without access to unemployment benefits, 

$9 

Discount code: blackwomxn2

lack of stable income, medical needs/high medical expenses, recipients of state assistance, experiencing displacement due to discrimination, no savings
$18

Discount code: blackwomxn1
raising a family,  some financial strain, moderate medical needs/medical expenses

*language adapted from BrownGirl Farm