For much of the history of UVA, it was plausible to represent THE student with a single image. It’s time to (re)present what we mean when we say “UVA student” today.
More InformationThe benefits that athletics offers women are as crucial as ever to the girls and young women discerning how to navigate our world. Pushing past limits, both physical and mental, they define new measures of success for themselves.
With 2021 well underway, we're finding ways to claim our right to joy, even as we work to create the healing that comes from justice.
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Survivors of sexual assault are invited to join this group for peer support and discussion of skills and strategies that aid in healing from a traumatic event.
We will meet on Fridays for 6 weeks, February 12 through March 26.
Please email Cathy Erickson if you are interested in participating. Because this group is support-based and not a therapy group, it is open to UVA students living in Virginia and in other states.
Wellness & Connection in the Time of COVID
These are unprecedented and uncertain times for college students. Just about everything is different and uncertain right now. Academic life has changed…social life has changed…and even strategies for wellness have had to adjust to the COVID ‘normal’.
Come together with other students to talk about what’s hard, what’s different, and what helps. You'll focus on sharing and supporting each other with some discussion of skills and strategies for improving wellness, too.
Spend your UVA Wellness Days with the Women’s Center Body Positive Team & Sameera Qureshi! Sameera is a sexual health educator and registered yoga instructor based in Northern Virginia. Her message mirrors the Body Positive Teams mission of radical self-love and intersectionality. We believe that our bodies are our allies and that being attuned to our body in our societies and the ways in which it feels and moves is critical to self-love and self-compassion. These restorative yoga sessions will guide you through gentle yoga sequences that are inclusive of every body.