Semaj Sconiers - Find your breath

Semaj Sconiers is a respected educator, mindfulness and wellness practitioner, and a Racial and Gender Justice Practitioner with the YWCA of Dane County. In this episode of Black Oxygen, Semaj shared her personal journey and experiences with mindfulness practices, including her connection to her grandmother and how she came back to her mindfulness practice while in the intensive care unit during a medical emergency. She shares, “in difficult moments, find your breath … it helps you recalibrate.”

In addition, Semaj talks about her work as a race and gender equity practitioner at the YWCA and the upcoming annual YWCA Racial Justice Summit. The 2025 Racial Justice Summit is focused on Becoming the Liberated Ecosystem and will weave together the themes of solidarity, abolition, mutual aid and repair. In our conversation about the Summit, Semaj emphasized the importance of unlearning harmful ways of being together and relearning new practices and ways of being a collective and in solidarity with ourselves and each other.

To learn more about the YWCA Racial Justice Summit please visit - http://ywcamadison-racialjusticesummit.org

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