Reclaiming spaces: Women of Colour excelling in Sports & Business Amani Eke, Founder of Project Yogi & Kemetic yoga instructor Amani Eke, is the founder of Project Yogi, a not-for-profit organisation providing yoga, mindfulness and social emotional learning activities to young people and their families. She is an Egyptian/Kemetic yoga instructor. Egyptian yoga originates from Ancient Kemet, now known as Egypt. It is a restorative system which has unique postures and principles. It combines physical movement, deep breathing and meditation to help achieve balance, peace, order and discipline which is known as Maat Amani is also a Kemetic yoga instructor at the OYA Retreats. The OYA Retreats delivers an holistic movement and mindfulness practice to women of colour. On exclusive retreats in the UK and abroad, guests are offered room to explore, reflect, release, and renew. BLACK WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 2017 SATURDAY 6TH MAY 2017 UCL, LONDON Spaces
Reclaiming spaces: Women of Colour excelling in Sports & Business Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Co-founder and Executive Director at UK Black Pride Phyll Opoku-Gyimah also known as Lady Phyll, is the co-founder and Executive Director of UK Black Pride, the award-winning celebration for Black LGBT communities to take pride in their ethnicity and sexuality. She is also a Stonewall trustee and Rainbow List Judge. She is also the Head of Political Campaigns & Equality at PCS Union and also sits on the race relations committee of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), works with race equality think tank Runnymede , and is a trustee of LGBT-rights charity Stonewall She set up the organisation after coming to the realisation there was a lack of space for Black LGBT men, women and trans people to foster a sense of pride in their identities. The organisation was set up to promote unity and co-operation among all Black people of African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern and