Program Description

Right Now, Inc. – 2025 Program Summary

🥋 Martial Arts Classes

Schedule: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays | Two age-based sessions (6–7 PM and 7–8 PM)
Target Age: 8–18 years old
Location: Community centers, rec spaces, faith-based partners

Purpose & Benefits:
- Builds consistency, discipline, and community accountability
- Helps students concentrate on specific body parts, boosting mental clarity and attention span
- Enhances strength, flexibility, and coordination
- Develops emotional regulation through breathwork, movement, and mind-body awareness
- Releases stress and generational trauma stored in the body

🧘🏽 Yoga Classes

Schedule: Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Approach: Meditative, restorative, trauma-informed
Movements: Asanas (yoga poses) + breathwork

Purpose & Benefits:
- Accessible option for youth and adults not ready for martial arts
- Improves emotional regulation, body awareness, and mental calm
- Supports trauma recovery through mindful movement and nervous system repair
- Provides a safe, sacred space for reflection and reconnection

🥗 Nutrition & Daily Wellness Classes

Format: Community workshops, school sessions, church visits, barbershop events
Partners: Herbalists, juicing coaches, hair health educators, holistic chefs

Purpose & Benefits:
- Teaches families how to shift from occasional to consistent healthy eating
- Easy metrics: vegetable intake, family meals, color of plate (brown vs. green)
- Designed for food deserts and low-access communities
- Connects food to mood, family bonding, and identity

💈 Barbershop Buzz + Community Listening Hubs

Locations: Shops across Wake, Pitt, Johnston, and Edgecombe Counties
Goals: Create real conversation, gather intel, distribute support

Purpose & Benefits:
- Safe space for dialogue on life, anger, parenting, and stress
- Highlights community needs in real-time
- Distributes gun safety locks and mental health tools
- Serves as an entry point to deeper programming

🧰 Life Skills & Apprenticeship Integration

Partner Sites:
- Locs, Naturals & More – Hair and spa apprenticeships
- Aura Apothecary – Herbal product development + wellness entrepreneurship
- Green Babies – Environmental education + plant care skills

Purpose & Benefits:
- Teaches real job skills through beauty, wellness, and nature-based work
- Builds long-term identity and purpose
- Offers a full-circle path when combined with movement, nutrition, and community

🔁 Program Philosophy: Layered, Measurable, Repeatable

Every class has compound value—addressing multiple dimensions of health in each hour:
- Movement builds focus + resilience
- Nutrition supports clarity + discipline
- Community creates accountability + momentum

Everything we do is built around sustainable daily routines.
We call it: “Snowflakes → Snowballs → Avalanches”
Small actions become habits. Habits become wellness. Wellness becomes generational change.