05/24/2021
Happening this Wednesday, 5/26, on Zoom!
Join us on May 26, from 6:00-8:00 pm ET online via Zoom for A Bridge Between Grief and Hope: Putting Ourselves Back Together as a Community.
Last year, on May 25th, the world began to turn in a different way. All over the globe, people turned their attention towards a police officer, Derek Chauvin, taking the life out of George Floyd by placing his knee on George’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. We watched another heinous and horrific act of police violence against a Black man and the community who witnessed their brother be murdered. Goerge was murdered on the heels of Breonna Taylor being shot while in her bed asleep and Ahumaud Arbery being murdered by two white supremacists while out for a jog. The landscape behind the continual murders of Black people was Covid-19, which had already shaken us all to their core. We were experiencing a global pandemic as it coincided with the ongoing pandemic of white supremacy.
White-bodied people began to awaken in a new way, reaching for resources, uplifting Black people on social media, gathering with white people in affinity spaces, protesting, and supporting the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. Black people called for accountability, grieved out loud in the streets, protested, and fought for Black Lives to matter. Schools and roads were being renamed and confederate statues were being torn down. The entire world was on fire calling out George Floyd’s name around the globe.
White supremacy continued to ravage communities of color and many of us didn’t have time or space to grieve and care for ourselves. Racial trauma is the cumulative effect of racism on the heart, spirit, mind, body, and nervous system. Many Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are constantly in a hypervigilant state due to how persistent and consistent white supremacy is. When our trauma goes unattended and we do not have space to grieve this makes us sick, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. We need a space to pause and heal our trauma. We need a space to grieve together, in community.
Register here: https://conference.accessibleyoga.org/A_Bridge_Between_Grief_and_Hope
