Veleda Roehl

Veleda Roehl works as a dancer, educator, birthworker and yoga instructor. She apprentices under her mother Diana Roehl, a long time yoga teacher and teacher mentor, and holds multiple certifications through Yoga Alliance. As a birthworker, she trained with DONA, and as an apprentice under master Midwife Nonkululeko Tyehemba, Ibaye, with the Harlem Birth Action Committee. She teaches, studies and performs dances from her ancestors and dance traditions throughout the African Diaspora through current collaborations with Adia T. Whitaker’s Àse Dance Theatre Collective, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances, choreographer nia love, and her own dance works. Veleda serves as a Creative Focus Group member for Artists/Architects of Kheperu, and assists in producing The 45 Degrees Project where she also serves as a faculty member. In addition, she serves as a founding member and board co-chair for Kibilio Community and Farm, and is currently a full-time dance teacher at a local public charter school serving the Brownsville, Brooklyn community. She's published and presented her research on the positive effects of dance and movement on the parent-child bond. Her career is dedicated to the study and benefits of movement for community and personal development. She lives in the Land of the Lenape, or Lenapehoking, which also became known as Brooklyn, New York after the forced removal of the Lenape People, and where she shares the blessings of life with her blended family-husband, performing artist and filmmaker Orion Gordon, and their amazing children Lamine and Zinnia.