Welcome

Therapeutic Healing Massage / Bernadette Bauer

Wednesdays & Thursdays: 10 - 2 PM

Saturdays: 9am-3pm   

Sundays 12-4pm   

$35 an hour                                           Call Bernadette (612) 396-2821

Iyengar Yoga

Instructor Jeanne Barkey conducts classes at the CWC on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Jeanne began her study of Iyengar yoga in 1985 and began teaching in 1989. Since 1996, she has traveled to Pune, India on a yearly basis for direct study with Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, Dr. Geeta Iyengar, and Prashant Iyengar at their Institute.  She also continues to train with senior instructors in North America, including Kristin Chirhart and Lee Sverkerson locally. She is Iyengar certified at Intermediate Jr. II.

Danza Mexica Cuauthemoc

We are a community of poeple dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Mexica/Azteca culture, ceremonies, warrior dance, accurate history and traditions. Danza Mexica Cuauthemoc works to build unity, understanding, mutual respect and harmony amongst all nations. This

is done by coming together and supporting one another in struggle for political, economic, environmental, social, and cultural justice. We preserve our culture by teaching and practicing the Mexica/Azteca dance, learning the accurate and true history, doing arts and craft, studying the Sun Stone (Aztec calendar), studying and practicing the language of Nahuatl, studying Mexica/Azteca and Mayan math, building political consciousness, and much more. Basically, we are committed to learning everything we can in our lifetime that will build our nation.

AMLA INTERNATIONAL provides services that go beyond just translating: it makes cross cultural situations for its customers as relaxed and comfortable as possible by adhering to their cultural differences and their integration into the community they currently reside in. Our translating services not only provide non-native speakers confidence in a professional business setting, but also the comfort of cultural acceptance in Minnesota. Many of our translators are non-native English speakers, providing a connection between culture as well as language. AMLA INTERNATIONAL feels that a thorough understanding of the culture is just as important as its language in order to tightly bind the community together.  Our list of most commonly spoken languages include: Amharic, Arabic, Ashanti, Ayoussa, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Chinese, Creole, Croatian, Danish, Denka, Ewe, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lorea, Lao, Latvian, Mina, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Servian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Zulu. Call Paul Amla at 612-272-0304 or write amlaintl@msn.com.

THE TREE AND THE WELL

Within a community context we seek to study, research, practice, celebrate, and integrate the knowledge, folk traditions, and ancient wisdom of the peoples of Europe. We do this to:

• Become healthier personally, as a community, and as a cultural people.
• Provide inspiration, support, and guidance from the European traditions and wisdom for the study, development, and actualization of spiritual growth and healing.
• Provide a framework and support for justice work with a focus on re-creating cultural patterns that will begin to heal relationships within our own communities, our cross cultural relationships, and our relationship to the earth and the natural world.
• Bring about conscious living and change within ourselves, our communities, and the greater world around us.

The Cultural Wellness Center's mission, philosophy, and guiding theories have provided the leaders of this initiative with the support and process for studying ourselves and building community within a cultural framework. We are grateful to the Cultural Wellness Center for allowing our Institute to participate as an "Incubated Initiative."

The inspiration for this work comes from our European ancestors and the profound cultural teachings they have entrusted to us. These teachings have shown us a wisdom, beauty, strength, humility, and path to reconciliation that speaks to our heartfelt dreams and deepest desires.

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MAJOR TAYLOR BICYCLING CLUB of MINNESOTA, established in 1999, is a nonprofit social/recreational club that promotes safe and fun cycling geared towards the African-American communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, although all are welcome to join us. We achieve this through group riding events for cyclists of all ages and levels. The Club also seeks to educate the public about its namesake, legendary cyclist Major Taylor, who in 1899 became the first African-American world cycling champion.  For more information, leave a message for Louis Moore at 612-721-5745.

IMHOTEP SCIENCE ACADEMY 

The Academy (ISA) has existed since 1996. It is a unique independent African institution that focuses on teaching children of African descent about their heritage and culture through the practical, applicable use of science. ISA is built on the premise of experiential learning through the involvement of immersion activities, building a sense of interdependence, where students, parents, and the community is primarily responsible for shaping, building and maintaining the program, and providing an experience that is aimed at encouraging participation over the period of years - elementary, middle and secondary school. Currently, ISA is a Saturday program meeting throughout the academic school year.

 Imhotep Science Fair

The Imhotep Science Fair (ISF) started in 1996. This K-12

 African-centered, non-competitive, community science fair gives hundreds of students of African descent from around Minnesota the opportunity to explore problems in their community and suggest creative ways of addressing the problems using the scientific method. The ISF is held every third Saturday in March at a supporting community host institution.

Anura Si-Asar (612) 721-5747 

Email: sirriusa@msn.com. 

Web site: www.ImhotepScience.org.

COALITION OF AFRICAN WOMEN

The Coalition of African Women Rebuilding Our Communities was born out of the passion of a small group of African women who wanted to end the cycle of pain and suffering of women and girls in our communities. Since 2001 we have been educating and advocating on reproductive health issues that impact the health of women in our communities, such as female circumcision/female genital cutting. The East African Immigrant Women's Health Initiative was created in 2008 to bring the issue of family/domestic violence to the surface, and to make everyone in our communities aware of the many incidences of violence and the impact it has been having on the health of women. Our work in the community has enabled us to reach close to 100 women and some men who are religious and community leaders. Through lectures and workshops, we have been able to share information with well over 500 healthcare providers. Elder Brikti Hiwet and Abebech Mimi Girma, 612-721-5754, Email: brikti@ppcwc.org

abebech@ppcwc.org

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRADITIONAL CHILD BEARING

Because women of African heritage are disproportionately affected by low-birth weight, premature births and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the Minnesota Chapter of the International Center for Traditional Child bearing (ICTC) uses the Cultural Wellness approach to birthing, called the Birthing Team. In this approach women of African heritage and their families are supported from conception through the postpartum period by a traditional birth attendant at the Cultural Wellness Center, Akhmiri Sekhr-Ra, who is a student of an ancient African knowledge system in the art of giving birth.

The goal of the Minnesota Chapter of ICTC is to bring families and health care providers together to collectively support healthy pregnancies, to reduce infant mortality, promote breastfeeding, and increase the number of black midwives and doulas. To organize the coming together of families, traditional and conventional health care providers, and those interested in becoming a doula or midwife, the Chapter holds a quarterly “Midwife Café.” During these “Café” sessions, participants are encouraged to share and create new knowledge surrounding the birthing process. The “Cafés” are held quarterly and last 2 -3 hours.

The Minnesota Chapter of ICTC is pleased to announce that it has received funding from the Women of African Descent Giving Circle of the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota to provide doula training to five interested applicants. The applications for this training are available upon request.

Contact: Akhmiri-Sekhr-Ra, se-mesi

akhmiri@ppcwc.org

Bioethical Solutions, Inc.

Death, dying, deterioration from chronic disease or accidents are issues most of us don't want to discuss, but are subjects that become more relevant as we become older. The objectives of Bioethical Solutions, Inc. are:

• To improve patient satisfaction when communicating with health care providers about critical health care issues
• To support/educate nursing staff related to addressing ethcial issues with patients and other providers
• To work with social service and chaplaincy to identify community resources that might help the communicative effort (e.g. pastors, healths, friends, etc.) as well as identify options (what is available should various courses of action be taken)
• To provide education, counseling, advocacy and coordination of services for people facing end-of-life situations.