A gentle weekly embodiment practice incorporating Harmony Tai Chi, InfiniChi meditations, Self-Healing QiGong, Yang Style TaiChi, and Afro-diasporic dance. We will move in one of these modalities based on community choice.

• Tuesdays 9am PDT // 12 noon EDT

• Sliding scale, no one turned away

• ASL interpretation provided

Instructor Bio:

I have been studying and performing Afro-diasporic dance for eleven years. My core practice is Mandé dance of the Bamana people from present-day Mali, but I have also spent years practicing Yorùbá and Afro-Brazilian dance in Los Angeles, CA. I have studied Guinean, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro-Haitian dance in New York, NY; Durham, NC; Cambridge, MA; and Los Angeles, CA. My teachers have included Omowale and Francis Awe, Tania Melendez, Silfredo La O, Kimberly Miguel Mullen, Seydou Coulibaly, Michelle Bach-Coulibaly, Rachel Hernandez, Linda Yudin, Luiz Badaró, Samantha Blake Goodman, Vera Passos, Gisella Ferreira, Vida Vierra, Amen Santo, Ana Laidley and Jean Appolon. I have taught and choreographed for Beneficent Congregational Church, Barrington Congregational Church, Providence Public Schools, Global Dance Arts, the Providence Parks and Recreation Department, Brown University Recreation, and the Brown University Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. I have performed with the New Works/World Traditions Dance Company, The Axé Collective, Swing Brazil Tribe, The Nigerian Talking Drum Ensemble, and Ballet Folclórico Do Brasil.

At Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I have completed Self-Healing QiGong, Crane Style Qigong, Harmony Tai Chi, InfiniChi levels 1, 2a and 2b, and am currently enrolled in Meditations for Cancer Treatment and Prevention with the dean of the InfiniChi program at the College of Tao. My father taught me Yang Style Tai Chi as well. I have taught qigong at Forest Grove United Church of Christ in an interfaith setting and will be teaching with Pieter Performance Space this spring.