Black Women's Conference 2017

Reclaiming spaces: Women of Colour excelling in Sports & Business Amani Eke, Founder of Project Yogi & Kemetic yoga instructor   Amani Eke, is the founder of Project Yogi, a not-for-profit organisation providing yoga, mindfulness and social emotional learning activities to young people and their families. She is an Egyptian/Kemetic yoga instructor. Egyptian yoga originates from Ancient Kemet, now known as Egypt. It is a restorative system which has unique postures and principles. It combines physical movement, deep breathing and meditation to help achieve balance, peace, order and discipline which is known as Maat Amani is also a Kemetic yoga instructor at the OYA Retreats. The OYA Retreats  delivers an holistic movement and mindfulness practice to women of colour. On exclusive retreats in the UK and abroad, guests are offered room to explore, reflect, release, and renew. BLACK WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 2017 SATURDAY 6TH MAY 2017 UCL, LONDON S...

Reclaiming spaces: Women of Colour excelling in Sports & Business Dr Stacie CC Graham, Founder of OYA Retreats, Certified Hatha yoga instructor Dr Stacie CC Graham is an independent management consultant and life coach based in London, UK. Previously a management consultant at an internationally renowned consultancy, she has extensive work experience in the US, the UK, and Germany. With an MS in economics and a doctorate in motivational psychology, she is able to bring together economic and business sense with a deep knowledge of what drives people's behaviour. Further, she is the founder of OYA: Body-Mind-Spirit Retreats, a project bringing yoga, mindfulness and other wellbeing practices to women of colour communities. She is a certified Hatha yoga instructor as well as a certified life coach. As a practitioner, she is dedicated to the lineages of Iyengar and Kundalini yoga. She travels to India every two years in order to study and honour the origins of the traditi...