and fatality from breast cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, the list goes on.
That's why I was inspired to create Black Girls Breathing—to make breathwork resonate and feel accessible. I've worked with communities from elite colleges to juvenile detention centers. Sometimes in the ways that certain wellness practices are taught, it can feel inaccessible and like,"Oh, this isn't for me" or"Oh, I haven't been doing this for years, so I don't feel comfortable." I know that's how some people approach breathwork.
We've offered virtual breathwork classes since our inception, but when COVID-19 hit this year, it was super clear to me that our community—especially since Black and indigenous people are dying from COVID the most—needed an opportunity to practice the work for real. My spirit was just pushing me to think bigger. People are going through different financial stressors and losing their jobs, so we wanted to make it so that we could offer our work for free or at a $5 to $25 sliding scale rate.
The money we're raising right now gives us that runway to keep operating the way that we've been, while giving us the time to get the ink on the dotted line for corporate partnerships and set up money from organizations and determine how that will sustain us. [As a Black-owned business], we know that we're not getting the same opportunities to capital, and that makes us even more inventive in the way that we fund our ideas and fund our missions.
You know, we could definitely use the community and these everyday people who do care and may have $50 or $100 to spare to help grow our mission.This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
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