Our Mission
The mission of Breath of Evolution is to save lives by offering a healing wellness center in Fresno, CA, where individuals can find an outlet, a safe space, and opportunities to cultivate social-emotional skills through creative arts, fostering personal growth and transformation.
Our Vision
Through our programs and services, we aim to inspire personal growth, ignite positive change, and nurture the social and emotional well-being of our community members.
Our Values
At Breath of Evolution, we passionately believe in creating a safe and inclusive space for under-served individuals of all ages to develop essential social and emotional skills. We are dedicated to fostering belonging, resilience, empowerment, accountability, transformation, and healing. We are committed to providing a supportive environment that embraces diversity, encourages self-expression, and cultivates lifelong skills for a brighter future.”
A Short History of Our Beginnings
Growing up in Fresno Co, there was a lot of street violence and I was fortunate to be apart of a group of dancers who brought creative opportunities to the city. From 2002 to 2008 we helped influence other teens and young adults to stay away from the violence. Instead engage in artistic activities such as dancing or music. Our group would go throughout the Central Valley from Bakersfield to Merced hosting events to keep young people off of the streets.
We believe that we as community members can also be agents for public safety by uplifting our community and being a great neighbor in our neighborhoods. We have the power to transform our communities by forming relationships with our neighbors and creating opportunities for them that often aren’t offered to underserved communities. We serve our community through a lens of empathy.
As we experience life, there are times in which we have experienced trauma of some sort, and for those who were taught social emotional skills we were able to overcome whatever obstacles we faced in a healthy way. We also understand that not everyone in our community is equipped with those same skills, so we are addressing the need for emotional intelligence in our community.
Due to the destabilization of our communities we ore locking of resources and have been wrongfully taught negative stigmas towards expressing our emotions. Breathe of Evolution is a change agent willing to stand in the gap to serve our community where it is needed, and that need is helping people understand emotional intelligence and how to healthily express, manage and regulate their emotions.
In our Healing Wellness Center we have a studio program, dance program, mentoring program, mental wellness room, with child care assistance while young parents are participating in our program coming soon. The healing center has already accomplished being in several newspaper articles including the biggest newspaper in the world, Wall Street Journal. Also several interviews on the local news and overseas in France.
Bettering a community is not just about the absence of violence, it’s about all the things that keep a community uplifted for the better. We want to touch the “untouched” and get them educated because it is ignorance that helps a community suffer. The government mostly worries about gun violence but there is a huge need for personal healing from the inside out. Also we must invest in the people of the community so the community can understand the correct path to create change. Which means investing in a belief system that goes against saying “nothing is ever going to change here” or “the only way out is sports, drugs or crime”!
