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Join us for a creative experience of relaxation and rejuvenation, led by Marlene Boyette, Malaika Bonafide, and Skooby Laposky.
Yoga instructors Marlene and Malaika will lead a gentle yoga flow, offering optional assists, followed by a period of guided relaxation accompanied by singing bowls.
The experience will be set against the backdrop of a live performance of plant music by sound designer and artist Skooby Laposky, who will play the beautiful plants in the MIT Welcome Center, reading their biodata and turning those measurements into a composition of dreamy, ambient music.
This workshop is geared towards adults, and is beginner-friendly. Please bring a yoga mat and a water bottle (there is a water fill station in the MIT Welcome Center). Please arrive a few minutes early to fill out a waiver.
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Marlene Boyette is a 500 hour registered trauma-informed yoga and sound meditation practitioner, educator and community activist / disruptor, currently in the process of becoming a certified yoga therapist.
Through her work as a facilitator, Marlene aims to use movement, rest / stillness and sound to encourage restoration, joy and healing within all communities, especially those inhabited by people with diverse identities.
Marlene has cultivated and held space for various organizations and institutions within and outside of Boston, such as Paramount / Nickelodeon, The National Association of Independent Schools, The Broad Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Company One, ICA, The Greenway, and has yoga residencies in St. Thomas and Brooklyn. Additionally, Marlene offers weekly classes and workshops at JP Centre Yoga.
As a practitioner, Marlene believes the modalities that she offers can be used as tools to activate social change. She aims to create welcoming spaces for all to be soft and experience more ease, and has been recognized locally and nationally by The Boston Globe, Getaway House, and Lululemon for her contributions and dedication to community, equity, social justice, and wellness. To learn more about Marlene, visit www.leelayogawellness.com.
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Malaika Bonafide offers compassionate yoga for all bodies focusing on alignment & breath. A 500hr RYT with a background in Vinyasa Flow and Restorative, Malaika teaches beginner friendly classes as well as senior and chair yoga throughout Cambridge, Somerville & Arlington. You can catch her leading Yoga and Sound Bath Vibe Sessions around town, and designing beaded jewelry under the name Ms. Bonafide Creations.
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Skooby Laposky is a sound designer and artist based in Cambridge, MA and Hudson, NY. Through the use of biodata sonification and deep listening techniques, Laposky creates generative real-time sound installations, musical recordings, and live performances based on the dynamics of ecosystems that are often hidden or unconsidered.
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