Date: June 7, 2025
Time: 2 hours, 3-5pm
Location: Yellow House Art
Facilitated by: Yvette Angelique, MA-TLA, CMT-P, MBSR-QT
Breath Meets Word offers a 2-hour liberatory gathering that brings together mindfulness and storytelling as practices of resistance, rest, and repair. Rooted in the cultural traditions and lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), this workshop is open to all artists, activists, cultural organizers, and those committed to social justice. This is a space for embodiment. For deep listening. For voice. And rest.
In this workshop, we will:
- Practice Liberatory Mindfulness through trauma-informed grounding, breath awareness, and somatic presence
- Explore storytelling as a communal and ancestral practice of healing, resilience, and cultural transmission
- Center BIPOC wisdom traditions while welcoming all committed to social change and relational care
- Share stories in small, supported groups
- Engage in collective reflection and build practices for sustaining voice, clarity, and connection
This space is for you if:
- You are an artist, organizer, healer, or cultural worker reclaiming space for your voice
- You are ready to de-center whiteness and welcome traditions and healing practices from people of the global majority
- You are navigating burnout, stress, transition, and seek a path toward embodied restoration
- You value ancestral practice, community healing, and liberatory frameworks
- You believe in the sacredness of shared story, and want to listen and speak from presence
Plan to arrive with your breath, your truth, and physical comforts if you wish to be on the floor such as a mat, blanket, pillow, and teddy bear (smile).
Yvette Angelique, MA-TLA, CMT-P, MBSR-QT, is a poet of presence and founder of Narratives for Change: Breath Meets Word Project. Working with and learning from visionaries rooted in justice, Yvette weaves mindfulness, storytelling, and leadership into a sacred offering. With wisdom honed at Brown University and Freedom Together in mindfulness-based stress reduction, she is a certified mindfulness teacher and guides artists, activists, and communities toward healing and liberation—where breath meets word, storytelling seeds action, and change takes root.
Fee: Breath Meets Word is practicing gift economics. Let’s take care of each other. The gift economy is meant to support the community, facilitator and the host by acknowledging their contributions of skill, care, and space through resources folk have available—not out of obligation, but as an offering to collective well-being. You offer what you can. Think, what will it take to sustain these types of offerings? If you would like to see these offerings continue and unable to make this one, feel free to support toward the healing and repair of people living in our community. If thy cup is empty, come anyway to be filled.