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  • Guided Meditation Meditation is the art of looking inside oneself and discovering one’s inner being.  Meditation calls forth one’s personal strengths to find new experiences and to transform life into a more meaningful and fulfilling existence.  Meditation may bring about, emotional, physical and spiritual healing.  Guided meditation helps to create an environment for these experiences to occur. Instructor: Dr. Mawiyah
Guided Meditation and Relaxation

  • Capoeira Angola Women and Men are learning to develop their reflexes, strength, agility, flexibility and mental strategic planning all within a cultural context of this ancient African martial arts style. Capoeira Angola is martial arts, combined with a power workout combined with dynamic interplay so come "play Capoeira." Instructor: Santos

Capoeira Angola (Adult Course)
  • African Dance  Come, move, and have fun learning African dance while moving to the intoxicating rhythms of live international pre recorded music and live drums. As an added bonus get a curve creating, figure-shaping, leg-toning, weight-loss inducing work out grounded in traditional African movements. Come for fun or for fitness but either way this class will be the best thing you do for yourself all week. Instructor: - Mabinti -

African Dance

 

  • African Drumming—  The African drum is a powerful form of music and communication. Learn to perform drum routines and discover their meanings. Also, learn how to use drum patterns and rhythms to tell stories, create a mood, relieve stress, call people to action, inspire celebration, convey emotions and articulate personal expression. Instructor: Teli
African Drumming (Adult)

  • African Language-Twi***—Native languages bond a people to a geographic location, a history, a common community and enrich your sense of heritage and culture.  Form this connection and develop your native tongue through learning to speak Twi, from Ghana, West Africa. Join a interactive global online learning environment and speak with others locally and worldwide.  Other classes include Kiswahili, Yoruba, Wolof inquire about annual group trips to Ghana. Instructor: Akyeame Kwame

Course duration: 8 sessions

Course cost: 195.00

Meets 2x per week Tuesdays & Thursdays at 7PM

 

 

  • Healthy and vegetarian cooking on a budget! Learn how to use spices to cook delicious and flavorful meals through practical applications and interactions during class. Also explore basic and advanced cooking techniques to make meals faster, and highlight vegan-friendly desserts, raw food, tofu, and whole meal recipes. Students will realize how mind, body and spirit are largely connected to what they eat. Instructor: Nataki

Course cost: $80.00

Includes ingredients, meals & materials fees

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  • Belly dance learning circle — We are an informal group learning circle focused on practicing traditional belly dance movements, techniques, &  choreography to traditional and contemporary music!
Bellydance Learning Circle Sessions

 

 

YOUTH COURSES

  • Youth Capoeira Angola Youth will learn how develop discipline and self control.  Also they will learn to develop reflexes, strength, agility, flexibility and mental strategic planning all within a cultural
    context of this ancient African martial arts style. Young men and young ladies are both encouraged to register to come "play Capoeira."

Youth Capoeira Angola

 
  • Youth African Dance Youth learn how feelings and ideas can be expressed through movement and dance.  Concepts of personal space and other ideas discussed.  Course teaches social patterns and values.  Also, reviews historic aspects of how African dance help people work, mature, praise or criticize community members while celebrating festivals and funerals, competing, reciting history, proverbs and poetry. Celebrate yourself through dance and learn how core African movements can be used to connect with ones inner most feelings. The movements can be incorporated into many modern dance styles. Instructor: Mabinti

Youth African Dance Course


 

  • Youth African Drumming— The African drum is a powerful form of music and communication. Learn to perform drum routines and discover their meanings. Also, learn how to use drum patterns and rhythms to tell stories, create a mood, relieve stress, call people to action, inspire celebration, convey emotions and articulate personal expression. Instructor: Teli
 

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General Course/class pricing
$Courses are $45.00

Repeat students can pre-register at a discount

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Specialty Courses

** $80 - includes ingredients and meals.

*** Introductory African Language meets 2x/week for 8 sessions

 

Free Courses

Take a free course every time you volunteer 5 hours or more in one month with Bennu.

Free course restrictions: All volunteer hours must be completed before volunteer course credits are issued.  Not transferable unless from a parent to a child of legal guardianship. Volunteer opportunities are available on a first come first serve basis. Specialty courses excluded.

 
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