Wellbeing Workshops for Women in Swansea

Funded on
04 Oct 2023

Our wellbeing workshops are for women from all backgrounds. Project will help them improve their mental and physical health. It will increase their self-esteem and better functioning in social life.

£10,507 Raised of £10,135

61 Backers

103%

Costs

Cost of well-being and art workshops. £3,865
Costs of project coordination support and office work £2,000
Costs of art and workshops supplies £1,921
Costs of holistic massages and beauty therapies £840
Costs of online tutors well-being workshops for ten months £720
IT costs £120
Target: (inc. fees) £10,135

http://www.artofbalancedlife.co.uk

My name is Ayanna Florian. I am a mother of two girls. I am a naturopath and bioenergy therapist. I am a holistic therapist and a Reiki teacher. I am the artist of my life, a handicraft instructor, weaver, basket weaver and cultural animator. I have also graduated from mindfulness courses. Currently I am living and working in Swansea, in Wales.

Since 2021, I've been working volountary for GROW Cymru, Growing Real Opportunities for Women charity organisation in Swansea and I've being doing many diffrent wellbeing workshops for women there. This is really amazing place helping so many women. It is why I decided to write my wellbeing project and deliver it with GROW, because I trully believe that it will help positively many women's lives.

I teach development techniques, which in a fantastic way help us to balance and heal the wounds of life caused, for example, by different traumas and fears. I show and teach others, inspire them, and they inspire me.

That is why I am creating my well-being courses and workshops, so people can learn how to better and more happily live their lives fully, in harmony and love, as best they can, without judgment, without criticism, with acceptance and respect for themselves and others.

I do my work because I truly feel that it has great power and enormous potential to create something that will strongly allow the energy of creation to flow with peace and harmony. And step by step we create better and more safe and peaceful world to live for all of us.

When one and half year ago I was working for Women's Aid, I heard that it was possible to get an art grant from Swansea Council. I felt deeply inside of my heart that I would like to help more women who like me experienced domestic abuse, depression and anxiety. I wanted to help them through art and well-being workshops. I wrote an art project and applied for the art grant. After a while successfully, I got the email that I qualified to receive it. The grant helped me to cover most costs of art supplies, but the rest of the work like art and well-being workshops I did voluntary or for a donation. All project lasted a year and we achieved really great results, helping many women to work out their traumas and start better life. I understood that this is what I want to do. But to be able to help more women we need more funding and it is why I wrote another project now based on my previous experience and I already know that many women really can't wait for it!

Project Owner: Growing Real Opportunities for Women (GROW) Cymru The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.