Social Practice

2019

As a Create Change Fellow, my cohort and I launched Breathe Bronx, an exploration of how deep breathing can be an easy but effective tool to find health, healing and abundance. We came to this work through community mapping efforts, attending Bronx Community Board 2 meetings, speaking with the Environmental Committee and attending DCP Southern Boulevard Neighborhood Planning Study meetings. Through these conversations, we learned the Bronx has one of the highest rates of asthma in New York City and truck traffic through neighborhood streets toward the food distribution center in Hunts Point exacerbated the issue. In response, we created “Two-Minute Creative Care Clinic” on Southern Blvd and at the Kelly Street Community Garden G.L.A.D. Garden Love & Appreciation Day, launched a website collecting community stories, and created a self-resilience guidebook sourced with wisdom and care remedies provided by the neighbors of Kelly Street and the South Bronx. We found that a source of great abundance can be a simple 'breath'.

This project was supported by The Laundromat Project.