Join Lang Civic Engagement and Social Justice (CESJ) for
Creating Capacity to Continue Forward: A Healing Space.
This will be a movement-based event for processing and restoration. We are accessibility mindful and open to all. Zumba will be led by our CESJ Director, Anthony Wilder. And a yoga offering will be led by Linda Lopes.
Linda Lopes (she/her) is a certified Yoga Instructor 500H, Guided Energy Healing Practitioner, and shares Sacred Drum medicine.
Linda discovered her practice over a decade ago through her mentor and Medicine Woman, who she refers to as the catalyst for change in her life. While searching for happiness, joy, love, and abundance, she soon realized that what she and most of us long for is always found within. She has spent over a decade healing, studying, and training under her Mentor and Medicine Woman to uncover the deep and tangled layers of ancestral, generational, and collective trauma to finally feel and experience the ability to rise, heal, awaken, and claim her gifts and live in her full power. She is committed to the path toward healing and liberation. It is through this journey that she comes to be of service to you and Mother Earth.
In her sessions, Linda strives to create an accessible practice that offers variations and options for participants to move with a sense of agency that focuses on and honors each person's needs. She uses inclusive language and teaches with a trauma-informed understanding.
Anthony Wilder (he/him) is the Director of the Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice. Anthony was Director of the Center for Inclusion at Manhattanville College. In prior role, he developed innovative strategies to increase campus-wide involvement with diversity and inclusion programming, including the creation of a new DEI-based grant program to encourage students, staff, and faculty to investigate diversity, equity, inclusion, and retention issues within their area and/or communities.
Previously Anthony served as Program Coordinator at the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion at Northeastern University. He began his career working in residence life at Augsberg University. Anthony has presented at conferences on a wide range of topics including masculinity, race, and power, and identity and career development. Anthony holds a BA in Journalism and Music Performance from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and an MS in Counseling Psychology also from Madison. Anthony is an avid practitioner of African Dance.
Food will be provided!
This event is a great space for community building amongst TNS students and to learn about CESJ programs and events.
This is an in person gathering, so please feel free to wear a mask.
Be sure to RSVP to stay up to date on CESJ events!