{"id":5,"date":"2024-04-14T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:57:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:57:38","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CUNY SPS alumna, Dionne Toussaint, is a trained and certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through The Awareness Training Institute and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley. She founded the wellness organization and collective, BreatheSleepPlay, to help humans remember and return to their well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dionne aspires to help humans find new ways to navigate the joys, sorrows and stresses of daily life and discover greater well-being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the founder of BreatheSleepPlay, an organization on a mission to help lead the way to a healthier world, Dionne has been continuously invited by the Office of Student Life to bring her organization\u2019s dynamic wellness offerings to our CUNY SPS community. These sessions aim to foster individual well-being as well as build connection and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wellness Programing for CUNY SPS Alumni - by BreatheSleepPlay. Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions.\" width=\"473\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCtDqfjj9SE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I look forward to meeting you!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2026\/02\/BreatheSleepPlayLogo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2026\/02\/BreatheSleepPlayLogo.png 1500w, https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2026\/02\/BreatheSleepPlayLogo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2026\/02\/BreatheSleepPlayLogo-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2026\/02\/BreatheSleepPlayLogo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2026\/02\/BreatheSleepPlayLogo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/205\/2026\/02\/BreatheSleepPlayLogo-1200x1200.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUNY SPS alumna, Dionne Toussaint, is a trained and certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher through The Awareness Training Institute and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkley. She founded the wellness organization and collective, BreatheSleepPlay, to help humans remember and return to their well-being. Dionne aspires to help humans find new ways to navigate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/wellness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}