July 27 - August 3, 2024

Shelly Harrell, Thema Bryant, Koya Webb, Daktari Hicks, Ramses Amun, Dominique Cowling

Healing While Black: Love, Liberation, & Culture for Our Wellness

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The “Healing While Black” retreat holds you in a safe space of care-in-community, infused with culture, and designed to facilitate Black Wellness in the context of racial health disparities and inequities. It offers peaceful respite from the daily grind through yoga and meditation, teachings and wisdom from an amazing team of Teacher-Healers, and invitations to experience communal and soulful joy rooted in cultural expressions of the African diaspora.

Teacher's Bio

Dr. Shelly Harrell is Founder and Director of The Soulfulness Center, a hub for wisdom, meditation, wellness, and resilience resources that are soul-centered, psychology-informed, and inspired by the wisdom of the African diaspora. She has been a Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology since 1999 where she directs the Culture, Wisdom, and Resilience lab. She is a researcher and published author in the areas of culture and psychotherapy, sociocultural and sociopolitical aspects of stress, racism and well-being, and Black mental health. Her work focuses on cultural dimensions of healing with an emphasis on contemplative practices with a holistic (mind-body-heart-soul-community-culture-nature-spirit) orientation. Dr. Shelly is a practicing psychotherapist and has served as a consultant to numerous educational, social service, health care, and professional organizations on issues of culture and diversity for over 30 years.

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