SUMMER MESSAGE to our Friends and Family,

Summer 2011 Index

Special Thanks to Carmen Mojica, Ingrid Romero, Retumba, Jessica Valoris, The Legacy Circle, Manuela Arciniegas for being courageous, powerful and using Casa to manifest their creative spirits. We invite you to join our Womyn of Color Healing Arts Collective , for more information contact Ingrid @ 347-546-7720/email iiromero91@gmail.com. Sharon Ufberg for her supporting story CASA published on Women E News - http://www.womensenews.org/story/health/110510/lets-hold-out-hope-young-women-in-south-bronx The young women of Casa and the Women of the South Bronx Community for doing a feature story about CASA on Bronx News 12 -www.news12.com http://
www.news12.com/articleDetail.jsp?articleId=282491&position=1&news_type=news

Page 1. Welcome/ SUMMER Message from the Collective! Page 2. NEW! Summer Institute Leadership Council for Young Women! Page 3. Spring Health and Wellness Calendar/ Upcoming Events NEW: The Legacy Circle brings you a drum and dancing for all ages! Page 4 All about the Summer SOULstice!
I am willing to release all fears, worries and con-

To Monique Kiera and Monique de la Oz Board Chairs of CASA for being passionate and standing for their commitment to heal and empower young women.

THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO SUPPORT CASA AND YOUR INVITED!

1. We are looking for powerful, courageous, fearless womyn/gender non-conforming people of color to support us in creating an environmentally friendly healing and political space where transformation happens through the spirit to volunteer , intern or join our board today! Are you a healer, artist, organizer? We are rebuilding Casa and need support with providing workshops, painting a young womyns mural, affirmations and healing symbols. In addition we are reworking the space to be environmentally friendly and looking for folks who do carpentry. Let us know if you are willing to donate a few hours to end violence against womyn and creating safe space. Make a donation today @ Casa Atabex Ache.org, site . Your financial support makes this work possible. Please join our facebook page to get up to date information and follow us on our NEW Twitter page..http://twitter.com/casaatabexache For more information email us at casaatabexache@aol.com or call the leadership collective at 718-585-5540.

Summer Affirmations
cerns about money, my career, safety, and protection. I know that I am perfectly protected and that all my needs are met abundantly. I am willing to release all my fears and struggles that have to do with power and control. I fully step into my power now. It is safe for me to be powerful and I accept my Goddess-given power to be used in the service of love and light. I am beautiful and use my erotic power to manifest passionate, sensual and healthy relationships.

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CASA Mission Statement

Casa has rich legacy of supporting womyn of color heal from internalized oppression by reconnecting with their individual and collective powers of healing and action so they may transform their lives, families and communities. Utilizing a self-healing and social justice model, Casas mission is to support womyn to identify the emotional, spiritual, physical and mental impact that their experiences of abuse ,neglect, oppression (sexism, homophobia, classism, racism and xenophobia, trans-phobia), violence and poverty has on their reproductive and mental health.

CASA WELCOMES! NEW! Natalia Lantigua Youth

Coordinator of the Fuerza/Power Young Womens Program.

Teen moms are doing it differently!

Since, 2000, she has been a participant of the Fuerza/Power program. 10 years later, Natalia Lantigua joins Casas staff to make a difference in her community. This year she has created her own program Rooted in the Heart of the South Bronx, for young women ages 13-18 and she needs your support! Casa provided a safe space for young womens self healing, organizing and self-empowerment. Our programs are designed to meet the their needs related to poverty, neglect, trauma and violence and its impact on their mind, body and spirit. In her documentary, Yo Tengo Fuerza/I Have Power Natalia Lantigua and other young women from the South Bronx share their story of child sexual abuse and foster care. Using her story to support other young women in healing and empowerment Natalia returns, social work student attending Hostos Community College to take her healing to the next level and transform her community.

They are ROOTED in the Heart of the SOUTH BRONX!

For more information about Casa and the young womens program contact Natalia Lantigua @ 718585-5540. If youre a young women between the ages 13-25 who needs support or someone to talk to call Natalia or email her at nataliaatcasa@gmail.com.

This SUMMER! I Have Power-Yo Tengo Fuerza Leadership Program for young women ages 18-25. Natalia continues to be Rooted in the Heart offering summer stipend
program. Spread the WORD! We are currently, recruiting young women to be a part of our

leadership council in the South Bronx! please email Natalia at rootedinheart@gmail.com or call 718-5855540.

With support from the Simon Bolivar Foundation, Casa seeks to spend the next year creating a Youth Leadership Health Model that is rooted in self-healing & organizing focusing on young women /organizer/activist self empowerment, leadership development and personal & organizational health. This summer we will be developing a young womens South Bronx Leadership Council The South Bronx is the UNHEALTHIEST of New York's 62 counties. It is plagued with poverty, dis-ease, unemployment , addiction and violence against women in all its forms impacting the mind, body and spirit of young women at an increasing rate. 37% of South Bronx residents say that they have lacked money to buy food at some point in the past 12 months. Most recently, the movie Precious depicting young women reality through the life story of a young black woman whose social conditions (ie. poverty) contributed to rape and incest that she experienced at home, which as a consequence led to obesity , low self esteem, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, sexually transmitted diseases, and an intergenerational cycle of abuse within the womyn in her family. We believe that Casa can give young women the tools they can use for mental, emotional, spiritual and physical wellness to deal with issues such as self mutilation, low self image, drugs, eating disorders, teen pregnancy, suicide, unsafe sex and unhealthy relationships, all leading to mental stress &emotional damage that often gets carried into their adult life affecting their reproductive health and overall health and wellness.

SPRING Health & Wellness CALENDER JuLy 2011@

CASA ATABEX ACHE 470 E.140th St. betw/ Brook & Willis Ave. Bronx, NY
NEW !Young Women's Summer Leadership & Cultural Arts Program APPLY TODAY! featuring Bomba and Palo free drum and dance lessons, empowerment and life skills workshops for teen girls! For more info: Come to Orientation for young women ages 13-18 and parents Thurs. July 7th, 2011 6:30-8:30pm. Summer program runs Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from July 11August 5, 2011. Snacks included. for info visit: http://www.thelegacycircle.org/ young_womens_summer_program

Ancestral Tuesdays Adult Drum & Dance Classes with Alma Moyo & Kalunga Neg Mawon & Genaro Ozuna Bring your own drum. $22 for both classes. 6:30-8pm Bomba with Alma Moyo (Alex LaSalle & Julia Gutierrez, drum/ dance teachers) 8-9:30pm Haitian and Dominican roots with Kalunga Neg Mawon & Genaro Ozuna ( Fidel Paulino and Paul Martinez, drum teachers). For more info, visit: www.thelegacycircle.org * Special Dance Workshops by Guest Dance Teacher on July 19, 26, and August 2, YASMAR CRUZ from Loiza, Puerto Rico!
Women in Traditional Music Monthly Gathering! Next Jam, Saturday July 17th, 2011 from 2-5pm Jam session & conversation for women interested in traditional music. In addition, The Legacy Circle Women's Drum Cypher celebrated their second monthly gathering to support the development of women in Traditional Music. The gathering included 20 women who are developing practitioners and leaders of Afro-Dominican and Puerto Rican traditional art forms. You're invited to join us at the next gathering, the third Saturday of the month at Casa Atabex Ache, 470 E.140th St. betw/ Brook & Willis Ave. For pictures, visit:http:// www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150338662144966.425831.635959965

Coming Back in August! Stay Tuned! If you missed the first workshop it was
about personal freedom and enslavement through writing, moving, collectively brainstorming, gathering affirmations, and painting our hands and arms! The next session will explore support and stability, and focus on adorning our feet! Please spread the word, and bring a friend!! Jessica Today was about slavery and freedom. I have been a slave to being small in the world through lack of money. I focused the ritual to set myself free.

Join Casas Healers Network Today and Post your workshops in our newsletter, offer a workshop at CASA, rent out our healing space or become a referral to our community! 718-585-5540 Community Healers Calender
Are you looking for a people of color healer or practitioner near you? URAYOANA TRINIDAD L.AC. -Offering Take charge of your
health! series Renewal/ Healing/Cleansing Workshops You will
not only feel lighter, many ailments may disappear concentration , stamina , and zest for life will get a lift.

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her @ 646-260 8094 TRINIDADCHMED@AOL.COM Space is limited to 15 participants. Call to reserve your seat. SHELLEY NICOLE teaching Reiki Level I and practices Reiki at Tao Wellness in Cobble Hill. If you would like to schedule a Reiki appointment please send her an email sovereignhands@yahaoo.com or call 917202-6610 for pricing and information.

FOOD FOR THE SOUL! SUMMER HEALTH w/CASA...

1. Element: FIRE Summer is about tapping into the roots of passion and our erotic and warrior selves. It is important to go outside, sit in the sun, take a vacation, be in celebration and do activities that help you tap into your vital energy, your erotic, be bold, be creative, and live the seeds you planted during spring. 2. CHAKRA: Solar Plex/ Sacral & Root powerful and passionate 4. Candles : Red, Orange & and moving towards what Yellow we are committed and most connected to. Burn one on your altar or in your work and ask for what you need! 3.FEELING /Health: Joy, mental and reproRemember a situation when you ductive health have lost your power or given it away. Light a candle to reclaim Summer is season of heal- your power. ing the past , reminiscing about our adolescents stoMake a list of what For More Information About CASA . ries of love that allows one you want to commit Please contact us at 718-585-5540. to live completely in the to and what a healthy present. We heal from islove and partnership Email: casaatabexahe@aol.com sues such as child sexual look like then put it abuse, incest, rape & sexual underneath the canFace book: Casa Atabex Ache assault. Love lost, past part- dle until it burns out. ners and anything that has Website: www. casaatabexache.org taken our power away. 5. CRYSTAL: AmWhile at the same time creber, carnelian ating life sustaining relaor red jasper, sun stone tionships grounded in our purpose and creating home They comes in rings, stones to carry in your pocket. Buy one to ground in your leadership & creativity. Tie a yellow ribbon on your within. Go to the doctor, waist to walk in your strength and power. gyn and check for fibroids, ovarian cancer , STDS, Remember DRESS IN Yellow, Red and Orange! HIV/AIDS.

For some of us Summer is a time of movement and power represented by the growth of the adolescent into adulthood. Its about the love of others, our sexuality and sex. We focus on our womb our place of power, we use our blood and erotic power to manifest through intention and ritual. Its about being courageous,