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Spring into Wellness with Workday Yoga

Join the Asian Network at Yale, Future Leaders of Yale, Working Women’s Network, Yale Latino Networking Group, and Hannah Hooper for a 6-class yoga series. Attendees will practice accessible yoga sequences to help you reduce stress and tension and help you feel clear, focused, and rejuvenated. Whether you join desk yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays, or the Friday mat flows, you can expect to practice poses that help address common tension areas like the neck, shoulders, back, and hips, with emphasis on breath work that help soothe the nervous system.

Spring into Wellness with Workday Yoga

Join the Asian Network at Yale, Future Leaders of Yale, Working Women’s Network, Yale Latino Networking Group, and Hannah Hooper for a 6-class yoga series. Attendees will practice accessible yoga sequences to help you reduce stress and tension and help you feel clear, focused, and rejuvenated. Whether you join desk yoga on Mondays and Wednesdays, or the Friday mat flows, you can expect to practice poses that help address common tension areas like the neck, shoulders, back, and hips, with emphasis on breath work that help soothe the nervous system.

Understand and Embrace Diversity

Exploring the many facets of diversity, this program examines cultural differences, as well as differences in age, gender, marital status, and sexual orientation. This session also explores the benefits of diversity in the workforce as well as effective ways to achieve a safe and equal workplace.

Participants will:

Ethics of Knowledge-Making: Race, Genomics, and Society

The forum will address persistent questions about race and human identity in biological science and society. It will feature a presentation by Professor Charmaine Royal (Duke University). Professor Royal is a leading expert on the ethical, social, scientific, and clinical implications of human genetics and genomics and directs the Duke Center on Genomics, Race, Identity, Difference and the Duke Center for Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation.

E-Conversation, Evoking Ancestral Memory

Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) is of Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Euro-American ancestry and is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Hinson, whose Chickasaw name Lokosh translates as “gourd,” is of the Imatapo (Their Lean-to People) house group and Kowishto’ (Panther) clan. Lokosh leads a virtual conversation on his recent culture- and language-inspired multimedia work, which negotiates the impact of COVID-19 on his positionality and creative perspective as a Nannikbi’ (Maker). A fluent speaker of the Chickasaw language and an award-winning artist, he holds a B.F.A.

Women, Theater, Archives: Creating Theater…and Records

Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3KyPjiZ
Celebrated playwright-educators discuss the role of archives and historical research in their creative practice and how there are envisioning their own archival presence
Sarah Ruhl, Playwright
Paula Vogel, Playwright
in conjunction with the exhibition, Brava! Women Make American Theater, organized by Melissa Barton, Beinecke Library curator of drama and prose. https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/brava

YAAA Book Club Discussion - Carolina Built: A Novel

Join the Yale African American Affinity Group for a book club discussion of Carolina Built: A Novel by Kianna Alexander.

This “exuberant celebration of Black women’s joy as well as their achievements” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) novelizes the life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in North Carolina.

Register by Friday, August 26th for your chance to win a free copy of the book!

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