Meditative Drawing with Amanda Gross and Sheba Gittens

Join us for a meditative, neurographic drawing experience with intersectional anti-racist organizer and author Amanda Gross and arts educator and yoga teacher Sheba Gittens. This workshop will incorporate meditation, drawing and readings from Amanda Gross's book White Women Get Ready to deepen our understanding of the lasting hurt European patriarchy has had on our communities, families, and interpersonal relationships. Participants will be lead on a journey of healing and self-discovery that will nurture individual and communal balance.

Please bring your own yoga mat if you can, all other supplies will be provided.

Sheba Gittens

Sheba Gittens is an anti-racist heArtivist, art educator, and creative consultant based in this iteration of the world. She is a trained Wellness Practitioner, Anti-Racist Raja Yoga Instructor, and Joy Facilitator. As a creative consultant she has supported numerous organizations and businesses nationally and internationally in manifesting events, programs, and workshops grounded in equity for humanity and that honor intersectionality. As an integrative multimedia heArtivist, she uses mixed media to educate and expand the consciousness of those she serves and currently works with the Ujamaa Collective, Balafon West African Dance Ensemble, and YogaRoots On Location. 

Amanda K Gross

Amanda K Gross is an intersectional anti-racist organizer, a weaver of people, ideas, and threads, and author of White Women, Get Ready: How Healing Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome Leads to Anti-Racist Change. As a hand weaver, mixed media artist, and trained yoga instructor, she integrates creative embodied practices throughout her organizing. Amanda is certified at the 200 hour RYT level by YogaRoots On Location’s Anti-Racist Raja Yoga School. She has an MA in Conflict Transformation and a PhD in Expressive Arts.