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ACHÉ - Alternative Cooperative for Healing & Empowerment Celebrate with CASA – The Launching of ACHÉ! The First Alternative Womyn’s Health & Wellness Cooperative in the South Bronx  Casa is launching the first Womyn’s Alternative Health and Wellness Cooperative - ACHÉ (Alternative Cooperative for Healing & Empowerment) for young and adult womyn this Fall. Inspired by the womyn in the Zapatista community and their organizing & movement building for autonomy, we are creating our model for sustainable and accessible healthcare for community, activist & organizers. The cooperative will support the health and wellness needs of womyn while being a respite to integrate self care into their daily practice and heal from internalized oppression. ACHE will have spirituality, culture & human rights at the core of its sustainability. We use earth based spirituality to create sacred space to align ourselves with the healing elements of the season for the healing of our mind, body and spirit. Join our monthly healing circles(a monthly healing women’s group to break the silence of issues affecting community women including trauma of DV, violence, sexual assault, self mutilation, low self esteem, disordered eating etc.)We also offer complementary workshops such as: yoga, reiki, alternative fitness, afro-Caribbean rhythms, healing remedies, acupressure, meditation, and more. JOIN OUR HEALERS NETWORK TODAY!  We are looking for health practitioners, curanderas, folk healers, midwives, organizers, artist, etc. to join our Womyn of Color Healers Network, which will regularly provide free or low cost health care and wellness classes and trainings that include self gyn examinations, childbirth, STD/HIV prevention and alternative care, herbal medicine, nutrition, healthy meal preparation, holistic therapies, natural medicine treatment of weak immune systems, and trauma.NEW FILM!: YO TENGO FUERZA - I HAVE POWER Young Womyn Healing, Transforming, and Being Free  What happens to young womyn of color who are abused and neglected by their families, the child welfare system, and the state and removed from their homes only to be re-victimized by the foster care system?Casa Atabex Aché presents Yo Tengo Fuerza / I Have Power - Young Womyn Healing, Transforming, & Being Free a new doccumentary by filmmaker Toyin Adebanjo created for the Fuerza/Power program. This doccumentary tells the stories of young womyn of color who are at risk of being lost to the system, are in the system, or have aged out of foster care, and their journey of self-healing & social justice. You will see the impact of abuse and neglect on the choices they make and their relationship to themselves, their families, communities, and partners. It calls into question the responsibility of the Foster Care System, the City & the State in preventing child abuse, restoring community, and supporting community spaces like Casa. Format: Video Length: 23 minutes |
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