Wellness
Free Yoga
Through consultations and conversations with community members, we know that there is a need for self-care events specifically created for Indigenous women and women of colour. Yoga is a great form of self care, and is a transformational practice that strengthens the life force within.
We have been able to offer free Yoga Classes since January 2020. While going into the new year 2021 we are fortunate to be collaborating with the Matriarch Movement based in Vancouver, BC. These are offered online and led by Shayla Stonechild. These yoga sessions will encourage you to be present to what shows up for you in your mind and body, to listen to what your body feels, and to let your mind and body receive your own inner medicine that comes when you allow this listening and unfolding.
From January - April we will be exploring a different direction of the Medicine Wheel each month. In January we will start in the East with mental wellness. In February we will explore emotional wellness. In March we will move through to our physical well being and we will end with our Spiritual well being.
Domestic Violence support
As a direct response to our community’s needs and requests for ongoing support regarding gendered and domestic violence, the Battered Women’s Support Services and the Support Network for Indigenous Women & Women of Color have partnered to offer a Virtual Support Group for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) women, non-binary and 2-spirit femmes.
We highlight a different topic related to domestic and gendered violence each week and weave in open circle discussion so that all participants have a chance to feel heard, to co-create safer and braver spaces for survivors, to heal, to build community, access networks of support, to ask questions and get connected to further resources.
We are aware of the implications that COVID 19 has on women who may be stuck in toxic relationships and experiencing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). It is a pandemic within a pandemic. With limited household movement, the number of calls to the crisis hotline dropped by 50%. We know that rates of IPV had not decreased, but rather that victims were unable to safely connect with services.
With our virtual workshops, we can reach women from any part of Canada.
Good Nutrition Girl
The impact of diet and nutrition on health is not a new science or topic. It is well known that eating healthy, nutrient-rich foods can help EVERY medical condition improve. Nutritional healing is simply giving yourself the best possible intake of nutrients to allow your body to be as healthy as possible and to work as well as it can.
We have teamed up with the nutrition professionals at Hellowellbe from Toronto to provide a series of #GoodNutritionGirl Holistic nutrition workshops which approach health and wellness from a whole-person perspective using nutritional education as a tool to help empower people to feel better inside out.
Join us for this great discussion series to interact and learn how to better implement holistic nutrition into your life. Life is short, why not feel your best, right?
Destigmatizing Menses
For a lot of women, acknowledging the biological fact of their period is one thing, but talking about it openly is quite another. For generations, menstruation has often been a hushed and secretive matter, one rife with taboos and mistaken beliefs. This lack of education and openness can take a toll on the mental and physical health of women and girls.
We will be hosting a Destigmatizing Menses workshop event in November. Event attendees will discuss the societal stigma around menstruation as well as issues of period equity, like ready access to tampons and pads.
There is a growing movement that aims to destigmatize menstruation, better educate girls and women about periods, and provide necessary menstrual hygiene products to all those who need them. SNIWWOC has joined the movement with our “Destigmatizing Menses'' campaign. You can be a part of it too. Follow the discussion on Instagram and register for the event below.
