Set Intentions

¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!

We need your support!!! For about 11 weeks, compassionate neighbors have been providing community watch support and know your rights information where a neighbor was kidnapped outside a community food bank in East Pasadena.

Slides 2-3 are reminders of why community shows up. Unfortunately, we don’t know the name of the person who was kidnapped outside the food bank. This neighbor was wrongfully taken from their family and community without due process while waiting in line for food resources. Thanks to an unknown neighbor who honored them.

On slide 3, is a flyer of Franco Caraballo and his beloved wife, Johanny Sánchez. Franco was kidnapped, ripped away and disappeared from his family while legally applying for asylum. He went missing and was sent to CECOT without their knowledge. May we honor him and continue to fight for his safe return from CECOT, a heinous, for-profit concentration camp.

If you are able to help in person or want to send resources here’s how you can tap in on the last slide! Bonus if you are multilingual in Cantonese, Mandarin, Armenian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, Russian or Ukrainian.

Email [email protected] to connect!!!

¡Fuera 🧊! No more illegal kidnappings!!!

Thank you to all who continue to support these efforts through PPE, red cards, whistles and more! Grateful for resources and learning from and other neighbors!

If you’re in a different area, post in the comments to connect with your neighbors!

Have you been looking for mind-body connection and community care? D0NATION-BASED YOGA IS BACK STARTING THIS THURSDAY! Join community online on Tuesday and Thursday Mornings at 8am for COMMUNITY, CONNECTION AND CREATIVITY! We'll move through setting intentions, reflecting, creative movement and mindful breathing for collective healing facilitated by myself, a certified yoga teacher with a trauma and social justice informed, LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent lens.

What: Collective Liberation Peer Processing Space

This is a space centered on collective liberation to gather in community to connect, share, reflect and validate each other’s experience.

When: Online 2nd & 4th Wednesdays in May at 6p PST / 9p EST - May 8th & 22nd

To join: Please email hello@set-intentions or DM on ig at least 1 hour prior to receive information to join on Signal.

How it works:

Grounding

Sharing and reflecting with empathy

Build your own mindfulness tool box

Gentle Movement & Stretching

Accessibility:
Movement practice may be done seated with props provided or seated in a chair. These sessions will be conducted on Signal.
➡️ Currently seeking an ASL intepreter to assist in facilitating. Please message us if this is you! No live closed captions are available on Signal.

Your community facilitator:
Katie Rotolo (she/they) is a social justice & trauma informed yoga teacher and mental health advocate, facilitating mindfulness and peer processing groups from an abolitionist, neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+ lens.

**Peer Workshops are peer led and do not offer medical advice or diagnosis. These services are not offered as a substitute for clinical mental health care or medical care. Please consult your health care provider(s) for advice relevant to your care. **