I am also a certified 200-hour yoga teacher and teach our SoulFlow yoga classes to share mindfulness practices to tap into your mind, body, and soul, and I’ve taken herbalism classes with Hood Herbalism and bring that plant wisdom to the holistic healing practices I share with our Soultry community. We are DIY queens and have taught ourselves how to create our website, design graphics, write grants, and all that goes into being a creative entrepreneur and owning a business. Through building community, we help support and celebrate our individual and collective healing journeys.īoth Alyssa and I curate, plan, and facilitate the events and workshops together. Our events help reframe health from an individual perspective to a communal approach. We believe holistic health and wellness is the connection of mind, body, soul, and community. We strive to make wellness more equitable and empower women of color to live vibrant and creative lives. We collaborate with female entrepreneurs, women-led businesses, and community-based organizations to increase the visibility of the diverse women in our community and connect women of color to these necessary wellness resources. She took some time to talk about their work in the community and the kind of wellness experiences people can expect this weekend.Ī: Our mission is to address the lack of representation of diverse races and socioeconomic statuses in the wellness industry by providing affordable and accessible events for women of color. Sunday at Village Rock Shop in Carlsbad.Īlong with her role as one of the organization’s founders, Junious, 28, is also a public health researcher and consultant, leading the organization’s conversations on topics that include women’s wellness, sustainability, and health inequities. One of those events is their Summer Soulstice Arts + Wellness Festival, which continues from 10:30 a.m. As Black and Filipina women, the sisters want to encourage women of color in artistic, creative expression and holistic living through their organization’s events, partnerships and collaborations. Their response was to start Soultry Sisters, a community organization creating events centered around arts and wellness. “Seeing that we needed more representation in the arts and wellness community, we took it upon ourselves to create an opportunity to collaborate with other women and women of color who were also passionate about building a community that reflected our cultures and backgrounds.” “We started to attend wellness events together and quickly saw that there weren’t very many people that looked like us in the arts and wellness community in North County San Diego,” Junious says. One of those discoveries was their shared perspective around living a holistic and conscious lifestyle rooted in community healing and empowering other women of color, like themselves. Toni Junious and her sister, Alyssa, already knew a lot about each other, but as adults they realized there was still more to discover.
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