Everything that I know about pleasure I've learned through food first. The patient way I have to wait for Haitian mangoes in the summer and white raspberries in the fall when they're in season.
It has been a lesson in labor and reaping the harvest of your own hard work.
A short video snap shot of what I have been cultivating over the years in my work and life. A labor of love.
This is a process and reflection on the work and journey of creating the ‘ We Can Breathe’ Series in collaboration with NoMAA and Bread & Yoga.
Join us for a FREE 9-video series of inspirational videos centered around Black, Indigenous, people of color in collaboration with artists from the Uptown community.
A dance short film on the full spectrum of humanity that is a black woman. Movement director, writer, yoga teacher and activist Tanya Birl-Torres bears her soul in the tale of two viruses (COVID and Racism) and what it means for a black body to heal and be witnessed.
I decided to take charge of my pre and post natal providers and who would be contributing to my care this go around. I chose to do a social experiment of sorts, I chose to have ONLY Women of Color be in charge of my care - myself included.
A Trip of a lifetime to the rolling hills of Italy. Get lost in the expansion of nature, food and yoga while we explore the inward journey of refining the heart and creating a change from the inside out.
An exploration of movement, yoga, theory U and Presencing', Our goal for this series is to cultivate a movement of individuals who will take these practices into their homes, work lives and communities by nature of being.
What question lies at the heart of who I am? This pilot program is a brand new three part integrative approach that incorporates the principals of Theory U (curiosity, compassion, courage).
"I don't believe a play should give you answers. It should lead you to more questions and energize you to find your own answers." - Anna Deavere Smith
What I am coming to learn about back body leadership is that it is a remembering of what women do best. A strong and supported back with an open and often vulnerable front. A strong back signifies a quiet holding power. A power that will secure the safety of a space, of self and of others at all costs while modeling what true presence and openness looks like.
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With an attendance of over 400 people, this was a site of rest, joy and celebration through a deeply trying time.