Over the next decade, she developed a series of popular yoga classes and pioneered an expanding array of healthy living workshops for Harlem residents. With her leadership and passion for health equity, HWC has evolved into a dynamic, diverse, and close-knit community devoted to creating a city-wide, grassroots movement for health equity, racial healing, and healthy communities.
The Harlem Wellness Center is a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York. The FCNY supports HWC through fiscal management and governance, allowing HWC to focus on its mission and to expand its impact through innovative programming, communications, and community fundraising. The FCNY was established by the Ford Foundation to improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.
The Harlem Wellness Center is a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York. The FCNY supports HWC through fiscal management and governance, allowing HWC to focus on its mission and to expand its impact through innovative programming, communications, and community fundraising. The FCNY was established by the Ford Foundation to improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.
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Across the nation, there are stark racial disparities in women's health due to systemic inequality. HWC is working to diminish the racial health gap in Harlem by offering women's health education focusing on physical, emotional, and mental health, nutrition workshops, and community wellness events and self-compassion programs.
As we look to promote truth, reconciliation, and transformation, and heal the racial divide to end systemic racism, the mission of the Racial Healing Hub will harness the power of art, reflection, and authentic connection to create a more just and kind world. In a noisy world, the HWC Labyrinth provides a space for contemplation, and a way to quiet the mind, reflect, and listen from within.
Your donation will help sustain our beloved community, working to provide a connection to greater health and social justice. Please do not underestimate the power of your gift, no matter what the amount. Our 2022 goal of $500,000 will support our activities and enable us to reach more people, and to offer expanded programming and enhanced classes.
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Kirsti Samuels
Nov 21, 2014
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This community health and fitness center has recently opened and is well worth joining. Its so hard to get out and do something for your health regularly, especially in the winter, I really need a place where people care whether I get there or not! Harlem Wellness has fun and friendly classes and Vivian makes a point to get to know all the members, so she helps keep me committed.
I started attending Vivian's yoga classes in 2008, and so I was delighted to hear that she was planning to open her own non-profit wellness center right here in Harlem. Of course I am supporting it in any way I can.
I started attending Vivian's yoga classes in 2008, and so I was delighted to hear that she was planning to open her own non-profit wellness center right here in Harlem. Of course I am supporting it in any way I can.
