PAST & UPCOMING EVENTS
Community SPONSORED WELLNESS RESIDENCIES & YOGA WORKSHOPS
ART & WELLNESS | EBONY T. PERRY-Retana
2021 - Present | Seen & Heard LA | www.seenandheard.org | Serving as Director of Wellness & Faculty | Facilitating and leading art and wellness focused workshops, as well as 1:1 Phase 3 (strengths based) multi-modal wellness counseling sessions for Seen & Heard and various other organizations throughout Los Angeles, CA.
7.11.2022 - 7.15.2022 | Come Alive Long Beach | Come Alive 2022 Creative Summer Series | Virtual Art Lessons July 11th - July 15th & An In-Person Color Run! | Virtual Cultural Arts Workshop ( Guatemalan Worry Doll/ Muñecas Quitapenas crafting) With Yoga and Meditation Series Kick-Off | Introducing this year's roster of instructors! Please welcome Mrs. Ebony Perry-Retana! @ebonytperry is a multi-cultural, Multimedia Artist (B.A.), arts educator, and certified Yoga Therapy practitioner (500 YTRx, RYT, IAYT, TIY) with a passion for art and wellness!
Mrs. Ebony also trained as a Social Emotional Arts facilitator through the UCLArts & Healing SEA Certificate program in the Spring of 2022, and continues to dedicate her time to art and wellness education in her personal life and work. This summer, Mrs. Ebony will share her love for her culture, art, and healing by teaching on the history of Worry Dolls and instructing students on how to make their own! For anyone that would like to learn more about Ebony, her work, and offerings- please visit her Art & Wellness website at: www.ebonytperry.com. | Registration is now open! Use the QR code or link in our bio to sign up your student(s) today!
1.16.2022- Black Light Arts Collective | www.blacklightartscollective.com | “𝐘𝐨𝐠𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐓. 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲” | Join us for our final workshop of our 2021/2022 wellness series! Ebony will be leading a gentle movement, breath work, and meditation workshop incorporating helpful Yoga Therapy tools and techniques (for all levels). The workshop will close with a special art & gratitude session to seal the practice.
Ebony Perry-Retana (@ebonytperry) is a Multimedia Artist (B.A.), educator, and Certified Yoga Therapy practitioner (500 YTRx, RYT, IAYT) with a passion for art and wellness. Ebony uses her interdisciplinary wisdom and love for expression, to find innovative ways of helping people regulate stress, supplement their own unique self-care practice, better tap into their creativity, and connect to mind-body balance. Ebony's workshops are tailored to help all who are called, access these helpful tools and establish a consistent self-care practice that is integrative. She recently completed her Yoga Therapy Rx level III Clinical studies at LMU this Fall 2021 - and continues to dedicate her time to art and wellness education in her personal life and work. For anyone that would like to learn more about Ebony, her work, and offerings- please visit her Art & Wellness website at: www.ebonytperry.com
November - December 2020- Seen & Heard LA | www.seenandheard.org | Facilitating and leading Art & Wellness workshops and Gentle Yoga Therapy Rx Sessions for Seen & Heard, JustUs4Youth, ZOE, and various other organization cohorts throughout Los Angeles, CA.
9.26.2020 - Peace 4 Kids | Virtual Sunshine: Celebrating 22 years of “Community as Family” Online (Zoom) Workshop hosted by Peace 4 Kids and led by Ebony T. Perry Art & Wellness- 15 minute “I AM” meditation poem recitation, with gentle seated stretch, and breath work. | 1339 E 120th St, Los Angeles, CA 90059 | www.peace4kids.org
9.12.2020- Peace 4 Kids | Saturday Social Distance Programming: Art & Wellness Workshop Facilitated by Ebony T. Perry- 45 minute Sun Salutation flow, gentle breathwork with Guided original “I AM” meditation, chakra balancing meditation (flower visualization)- followed by “Bhavana” / “dream manifestation” intuitive art session with ink and paper. | 1339 E 120th St, Los Angeles, CA 90059 | www.peace4kids.org
8.28.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : “Matters of the Heart II: Beyond The Mind the Heart is Beating” Healing Arts Workshop | Virtual Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom | Web Platform: Google Hangouts (RSVP required).
8.13.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : “Matters of the Heart I” Healing Arts Workshop | Virtual Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom | Web Platform: Google Hangouts (RSVP required).
8.3.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2: Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Gentle Yoga Rx with Ujjayi Breathwork, Pranayama, and Guided Chakra balancing Mindfulness Meditation. Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
7.25.2020- Shared Self Care Hosted by @Tomartamara | Virtual Self- Care Session: 1 hour. Journaling session led by Shared Self Care Founder Tamara Hossain, followed by gentle Yoga & Meditation session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Gentle Yoga Rx with Ujjayi Breathwork, Pranayama, and Guided Chakra balancing Mindfulness Meditation. Web Platform: Zoom
7.23.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : “What Are You Growing Through?” Healing Arts Workshop | Virtual Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom | Web Platform: Google Hangouts (RSVP required).
7.20.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2: Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Gentle Yoga Rx with Ujjayi Breathwork, Pranayama, and Guided Chakra balancing Mindfulness Meditation. Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
7.9.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : “Metamorphosis: Transformative Meditation & Intuitive Art Flow Workshop” Healing Arts Workshop Celebrating the life of artist Leslie Ariel Duarte | Virtual Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom | Web Platform: Google Hangouts (RSVP required).
7.6.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2: Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Gentle Yoga Rx with Ujjayi Breathwork, Pranayama, and Guided Chakra balancing Mindfulness Meditation. Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
6.22.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2: Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Gentle Yoga Rx with Ujjayi Breathwork, Pranayama, and Guided Chakra balancing Mindfulness Meditation. Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
6.18.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : “Gratitude To the Ancestors: Contemplating Afrikan Spirituality” Healing Arts Workshop | Virtual Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom | Web Platform: Google Hangouts (RSVP required).
6.11.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom (Open Mic Edition) Hosted and Lead by Anthropologist, Sociology Scholar, and Reiki Master Paola Mero @paola.monserrat | Lineup: Grounding practice and opening reading by Artist Ebony T. Perry @ebonytperry reciting the excerpt of ancestor Audre Lorde’s essay from “Sister Outsiders: Essays and Speeches” published in 1984 •• ‘Flow Art’ Therapy session led by Artist - Sa'adiah Khan @sadisoularts •• Embodied movement and pleasure activism medicine by Movement and Dance Therapist Krystal @Krystalclairingspiral •• Spoken word poetry recitation of original pieces “The Story my Candle Will Tell” and “New Dawn” by Ebony T. Perry @ebonytperry •• Spoken word poetry recitation of original “Flower Meditation” poem by Artist Stephanie Ramirez @drifting_lotus •• ‘Danza Azteca’ Aztec Dance performance •• Aztec drum and song medicine, and ancestral earth healing lessons led by DWC Arizona Elder Cuco •• Research excerpt on Afro-Ecuadorian identity and closing energy healing session led by Paola Mero @paola.moserrat
6.8.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2: Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: World Oceans Day Inspired Yoga with Ujjayi Breathwork, Pranayama, and Guided Chakra balancing Mindfulness Meditation. Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
6.4.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : “Ancestral Rememberance and Strength” Healing Arts Workshop | Virtual Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom | Web Platform: Google Hangouts (RSVP required).
5.28.2020- DIVINE WISDOM CIRCLE : “Becoming The Ocean” Healing Arts Workshop | Virtual Integrative Healing Space Rooted in Ancestral Wisdom | Web Platform: Google Hangouts (RSVP required).
5.11.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2: Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Light Yoga, Breath work (Ujjayi, Sitali, and Pranayama techniques), and “Flower Essence” Chakra Balancing Mindfulness Meditation. Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
4.27.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2: Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Restorative Chair Yoga Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
4.13.2020- Big Sunday | Virtual Programming: MA@2 : Wellness Sessions – 45 min. Virtual stretching and breathing session with Artist and Yoga Instructor Ebony T. Perry | Workshop Focus: Introduction with warm up, Light Yoga, Breathwork Pranayama, and Meditation Workshop (All ages). | 6111 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 | www.bigsunday.org
4.10.2020 - TGS Collective | Instagram Live: Wellness Week (IGTV Series) | Workshop Focus: Gentle Restorative Yoga Flow with Ebony Perry | IG: @TGSCollective
3.30.2020 - TGS Collective | Instagram Live: Wellness Week (IGTV Series) | Workshop Focus: Breathing for Balance with Ebony Perry | IG: @TGSCollective
2019 • Peace 4 Kids - Womxn’s Nature Retreat (2019) | Light Yoga & Guided Mediatation Workshop w/ Pranayama
2018 • Peace 4 Kids - Art & Self Care Workshop Series (Artist Residency) | Los Angeles, CA
2016 • Feed & Be Fed FarmX Green Girl Farms X The Garden Church | San Pedro, CA | Community Yoga Workshop
2015 • Feed & Be Fed Farm X Green Girl Farms X The Garden Church | San Pedro, CA | Enlightened Art: Community Workshop Series & Artist Residency