Community Care: Cooking With The Residents of Aqua at Plaza 88

What you may not know about Kunye is that we are a full service wellness agency. The corporate facing side of our business is known as our Community Care Program.

This program was created from our belief that self-care should extend into community care. The vision was to see communities and organizations of various sizes, encourage and support their humans on their journey to connect with themselves, connect with each other, and elevate their lives as individuals and as a community.

We recently partnered with Starlight Investments to jump start their custom Community Care Program for residents of Aqua at Plaza 88.

In June, we organized a series of mindfulness sessions plus a special event session for over 300 residents. We invited Holistic nutritionist and long time friend of Kunye, Sisley Killem, of The Pure Life to lead a virtual cooking class and talk about healthy food and healthy bodies. Together, we made an asian inspired sesame salad, as well as her signature healthy snickers bites (YUM!).

Mindfulness is the key to well-being and we are always thrilled to partner with organizations who value mindfulness practices, and the mental health of their community members as much as we do. We’ll share more of our partnership with Aqua in the future, but for now, try the recipes Sisley created for the community for yourself and let us know what you think! Maybe we should to another class for our Kunye fam too.

Sisley has so generously allowed me to share the exclusive PDF and recipes with all of you here. Download and get cooking :)

Be well,

Melissa

Melissa Nkomo is our Founder, creative director and master teacher. What lights her up most is being an ally for others on their wellness and spiritual journey. She is honoured to do this as Kunye’s founder, a movement and meditation teacher, Embodiment facilitator, and self-professed Slow Wellness Navigator. @melissa.nkomo @kunye.co