This week, Anahta Grace volunteer and psychotherapist Michell Stanley announces the creation of our very first wellness center, to provide healing for those inhabiting the District Alliance for Safe Housing, Inc. (DASH).
The mission of the District Alliance for Safe Housing, Inc. (DASH) is to ensure access to safe and sustainable refuge for victims of domestic violence through the development and management of safe housing and related services, while increasing the capacity of other community-based organizations to expand housing for victims throughout the District of Columbia. As part of fulfilling this mission, DASH has honored Anahata Grace with the responsibility of facilitating wellness programming for the organization’s newest program, Cornerstone, which is scheduled to open this fall. The Wellness room will offer a full schedule of yoga classes including acupuncture, reiki, yoga therapy, and meditation, all geared towards providing residents with wellness services from a holistic perspective.
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Every week, Anahata Grace will honor our volunteer and staff experiences through a weekly blog. This week, Finding Grace staff member Alexis Mitchell will talk a little bit about how we’re all heroes.
The Pedigree “Heroes” ad tells the story of those who haven’t been given the opportunity to see the brightest side of life. “Shelter dogs aren’t broken, they’ve simply experienced more life. If they were human, we would call them wise. They would be the ones with tales to tell and stories to write; the ones dealt a bad hand responded with courage. Do not pity a shelter dog, adopt one.”
Pedigree has mastered the art of effectively relaying its pure intentions of changing the lives of shelter animals. The message it gets across is one of service, encouraging the listener to take purposeful actions to enhance the life of another and not to mistake a difficult state for a sorry one.
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Every week, Anahata Grace will honor our volunteer and staff experiences through a weekly blog. This week, Anahata Grace collaborator, HawaH, and founder of the non-profit, One Common Unity, will discuss their upcoming Rejuvenation Retreat.
In the year 2008, One Common Unity organized our first large scale retreat and called it “The Restoration Retreat.” The following year we teamed up with two tremendous community partners in Flow Yoga Center and Java Green Eco Café. By this second year, with the help of Ian and Debra Mishalove (the owners of Flow Yoga Center) and our miracle working event coordinator Carolyn Butcher, we had doubled the size of the retreat to 80 people… and decided to rename it “Rejuvenation.” This second name seems to have stuck and what we offer today is a no holds barred opportunity for creativity, freedom, nature and fun.
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Every week, Anahata Grace will honor our volunteer and staff experiences through a weekly blog. This week, Finding Grace volunteer and acupuncturist Nicole Mires will discuss a recent New York Times article about the financial burdens of wellness, specifically acupuncture. Remember to check back weekly, as our journey of compassionate action has just begun.
In these times of instant gratification and tightened budgets, it can seem overwhelming to invest a chunk of money into something which you may not immediately notice the results. The results from receiving acupuncture for pain or stress relief can certainly be noticed immediately, but if the patient is not willing to follow through with consistent sessions, those effects wear off over time.
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This week, Anahta Grace volunteer and psychotherapist Michell Stanley announces the creation of our very first wellness center, to provide healing for those inhabiting the District Alliance for Safe Housing, Inc. (DASH).
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