Gabrielle Roberts - Roots

8:00am - 9:00am

Ground yourself through meditation. Nurture yourself with gentle movement.  Flow freely and blossom. Use stillness to gain strength and release your tension.    Love on Yourself.  All sessions will be guided and will end with a journaling session for the topic of the day.  

Gabrielle is from Minneapolis and the Owner of the 612 Jungle - Minneapolis's First & Only Hip Hop Yoga Studio.  612 Jungle is the only black owned studio in the state of Minnesota. She completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Lifetime in 2016, and since has completed an additional 200 hours in 2018.  After going through Teacher Training, she set out to make yoga accessible, relatable, and empowering for EVERYone.  She is known for her soulful approach to the practice, and delivers in a light-hearted and comforting way.

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Tamiko French - Relax, Release, Recharge

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Relax your body into harmonic and melodic sound that bathe you in the frequency of the earth. As you release into the sound bath, allow your mind to melt all the stress of your day away. Feel the natural vibes penetrate your body and calm your soul. Find yourself recharged for your day by ingesting pure harmony from the vibrations. To learn more about the function of a sound bath, please read this link from Psychology Today:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/201907/the-healing-power-sound-meditation

Since 2011 Tamiko French has been creating jewelry and sharing her gift with communities abroad. Her love for science, nature, and the magic between them is carefully synergized with each service she delivers. Whether it be crystal consultation, crystal healing, custom functional jewelry, or a unique sound bath, you can discover something that illuminates your soul. With each experience she is sharing a piece of her soul with you, with your highest good in mind. She has been accredited with the International Natural Healers Association and has been featured at the Mother Baby Center. She has been called to offer free and donation based sound healing to the community since the summer of 2020 along side other community healers in the Powderhorn Area Wellness Collective that was started in response to the rising needs of safe calm space from the murder of George Floyd, and the homeless displacement where many volunteers and homeless needed some form of calm. Currently these sessions are being held at Walker Community Church and Live on Zoom or Instagram.

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Time of Reckoning presents the Extended Family and Family of Choice

12:00pm - 3:00pm

Join us for Time of Reckoning's third forum centering the Black extended family and family of choice on Wednesday, April 21 from 12:00-3:00pm CT. The event will take place virtually and consist of live testimonies from community members, healing space, and breakout sessions for deeper reflection and sharing. Please register here

We welcome Black community members, policymakers and philanthropists to join this virtual forum via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84325589514

We invite our Non-Black allies to support the event on Facebook live: https://www.facebook.com/joiunlimited/

ABOUT TIME OF RECKONING

Time of Reckoning, Healing, Listening, & Action is a series of community engagement sessions grounded in healing justice focusing on the criminal justice system and its collateral consequences on the Black family- the women, men, children, trans folks, elders, and caregivers. This year long series will culminate in a town hall and policy action roundtable (in June) to invite local policy makers with power and influence to implement the solutions and recommendations brought forth by the community through this process.

Yoni Light - Groove2Heal

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Groove2Heal is a session dedicated to dance and healing through dance. In this space we take space to connect to our bodies as well as our minds and spirits. A place to sweat and release stress. 

Yoni Light is a multidisciplinary performing artist based in Minneapolis, Minneasota. She utilizes many different mediums of artistic expression such as dance, poetry, music and mixed media to share her lived experience and imaginative visions with the world. Yoni’s work is based on expression of self, the light, the dark, the colorful and the grey in betweens of our vast human experience. “I spent so much time thinking I had to go outside of me to “Find Myself” but then I realized all I must do is Remember and Reclaim all that I am”.

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Gabrielle Roberts - RnB Restore

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Ground yourself through meditation. Nurture yourself with gentle movement.  Flow freely and blossom. Use stillness to gain strength and release your tension.    Love on Yourself.  All sessions will be guided and will end with a journaling session for the topic of the day.  

Gabrielle is from Minneapolis and the Owner of the 612 Jungle - Minneapolis's First & Only Hip Hop Yoga Studio. 612 Jungle is the only black owned studio in the state of Minnesota. She completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Lifetime in 2016, and since has completed an additional 200 hours in 2018. After going through Teacher Training, she set out to make yoga accessible, relatable, and empowering for EVERYone. She is known for her soulful approach to the practice, and delivers in a light-hearted and comforting way.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87912640580?pwd=ZHhqbGo0QUluRGlualZFWG11anlJQT09

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Jayanthi Rajasa - Vocal Village

3:31pm - 4:31pm
Stretch your vocal chords and learn a song that tells a truth. 

Black Ancestorwork and participatory presence involved and made accessible for the shy through rapturing enticement of note holding and note bending and breath that is song singing. Song singing in you in me in we. 

Jayanthi Rajasa is a songstress dedicated to singing from the heart. She collects songs that speak to her struggle, empowerment and ability to be, change, and move forward - while honoring the unremembered changers and movers of the past. She enjoys singing for people passing worlds: being born, or dying, or passed. She refers to these as arrivals and departures.  

Jayanthi is anointed all on her own, plus she shares her voice with a number of bands and projects in the Twin Cities.  The Give Get Sistet, Miss Pennie's Microphone, Romantica, Passed Presents, Black Audience, and Jayanthi Kyle and the Crybabies are included among these. She continues to support The Million Artist Movement to dismantle white supremacy and support Black liberation. She also works with Mama Mosaic on a "Minnesota girls are not for sale" piece that has been performed for over 9 years seeking freedom for women and girl sex slaves in Minnesota.

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