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A community for Asian women to flourish and thrive through transformational Leadership Retreats, Workshops, and Events.
 

The Cosmos creates community, experiences, and content for Asian women to flourish and thrive.

G. and P. meeting at The Cosmos LA Retreat!

G. and P. meeting at The Cosmos LA Retreat!

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The Cosmos Experiences are interactive, culturally-informed, and experiential. We organize workshops, events, and gatherings in partnership with Asian women in the community. Our experiences are inclusive of self-identifying women, femmes, gender non-conforming, queer, and transgender individuals of Asian, Pacific Islander, South Asian, and mixed race descent. Have an idea for partnering with The Cosmos? Get in touch with us!

 

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✶ #TeachMeTuesday - Every Tuesday, we make tough things easy. ✶ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Today, we're recommending two delicious recipes from Native American Chef Sean Sherman, Cedar Tea and Squash & Apple Soup. Chef Sean Sherman has made a name for himself cooking only with ingredients used by Native American groups from the Upper Midwest. This year, his book, "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen" won the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook. Though decolonizing Thanksgiving dinner looks different for everyone, for Chef Sherman this meant understanding his history and the food of his heritage as a Lakota person. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ☕ Cedar Tea: Simmer 2 cups of fresh cedar in 4 cups of boiling water for about 10 minutes until the water becomes a golden color. Strain off the cedar and sweeten with maple syrup, to taste. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🥘 Squash and Apple Soup: You can find a link to the recipe in our bio!
✶ This week’s #CosmosCommunitySpotlight goes to Mongolian-Swedish world-recording holding memory champion @yanjaa (pronounced Yend-ja)✶ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As 1 of only 22 International Grandmasters of Memory in the world, @yanjaa is nothing short of remarkable. Her journey to becoming a memory champion started in college when she, by chance, picked up Joshua Foer’s bestselling book “Moonwalking With Einstein.” Within 2 months of discovering memorization techniques, she enrolled in her first memory competition and the rest is her-story! These skills also helped her to graduate Stockholm Business School in just 2 years! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Yanjaa's talents have since taken her all over the world. Most recently, she was featured in "Memory Games", a documentary that debuted last Sunday 11/11 at the DOC NYC festival. The film follows Yanjaa and 3 other competitors as they make their way to the 2017 World Memory Championships in Jakarta. When she's not breaking records, Yanjaa loves learning, advocating to equality, and drinking boba!
✶ #CosmosGetaway - Every Friday we repost a Cosmos woman exploring the world on her terms! Tag your travel pics with #CosmosGetaway to be featured! ✶ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Repost: @chrystalzou in Porto, Portugal: “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” -Jack Kornfield
We can't believe The Cosmos NY Retreat was just a month ago!! We've got serious nostalgia for quiet mornings like this by the pond. There's nothin' better than feeling supported by our sisters. Together, we can take on anything.
#CosmosConvos Inevitably, conflicts will arise, and the holidays have an odd way of bringing old wounds to the surface. ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In this week's newsletter, we teamed up with NY-based Filipina-American psychologist Dr. Leilani Salvo Crane to put together our "6 Ways to Flourish with Family" Guide. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One of our fave tips? *TEXT YOUR SIS!* Tag a sister you can lean on when you're feeling down and tell her how you feel! ❤️💜
Thinking about the Floral Arrangement Workshop we held over the summer 🌼💮 Sometimes, the details make all the difference!
✶ #TeachMeTuesday - Every Tuesday, we make tough things easy. ✶ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Did you know that expectations about holidays and special events are the number one contributor to holiday blues? When we build up our expectations to unreasonable levels, we set ourselves up to be disappointed! To get in the right mindset, we reached out to Dr. Leilani Salvo Crane, a Filipina-American psychologist and fellow Cosmos woman, for advice: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Your family is unique and only you know the players. Don’t compare your family dynamics, personalities, or traditions to anyone else’s. Comparing can all too often lead to finding your own family lacking or disappointing. Remember, nobody’s family is perfect, no matter how they look on social media." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Want more tips on flourishing with family by Asian women, for Asian women? Be sure to subscribe to The Cosmos Newsletter using the link in bio!! We're dropping a FRESH FEELIN' letter tomorrow 🥳 designed by our powerhouse team @linhyen.co, @bngdesign, @irenaxia. You don't want to miss out!
Happy Monday!! Hope you're all starting the week of strong 💪
✶ This week’s #CosmosCommunitySpotlight goes to Founders of @slantdmedia, @krystiemak and @katerinajeng ✶ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Kat (Denver) and Krystie (New York) are friends, founders, and #badass Asian women who are on a mission to make Asian American stories heard in all their nuanced, messy, complex glory. Frustrated by the lack of Asian American representation in mainstream media, Kat and Krystie started Slant’d with a group of friends who were eager to change the perception of the Asian American identity. What started off as a passion project quickly evolved into a collective vision to build an intersectional community of Asian Americans who boldly defy stereotypes, one story at a time. ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✧ Slant'd just launched their PRE-ORDER campaign for Issue 2: LIGHT AND DARK. The stories featured in Issue 02 bravely confront the messiness of self-discovery and celebrate the freedom that comes from reclaiming your identity on your own terms. Head over to slantd.media to pre-order your issue now!! P.S. You may just find an honest AF, behind-the-scenes piece by our founders @moxykk and @cassandthecity on the journey of building The Cosmos, illustrated by our very own Creative Director @bng.design !
Something new next week comes....subscribe @ jointhecosmos.com to be the first to know about it!! 👇 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #jointhecosmos #asianwomen #community #excitingtimes #asianamerica
Thank you for another incredible Cosmos Book Club evening - which also happened to be our last of the year! 📖 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We ruminated on everything from how hard personal nonfiction can be (and what readers feel we're owed for a good story!) to our own family histories to the power of sisterly bonds. Over sweets and sparkling water, we dove into the complexities of Nicole Chung's story and the questions it raised in our own lives. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We're feeling extra grateful for spaces like this. If you missed out, sign up for our newsletter using the link in bio. We'll be voting for our next book club selections and announcing dates in 2019 soon! ✨
Hey Cosmos Sisters. Yesterday was a big deal. We loved and we lost. But we also made history. Let’s keep showing up for our communities. Thank u, next!! 💜✊🏼

The Cosmos began with a simple yet powerful question:
What does it look like for Asian women to flourish and thrive?

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