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Search results for: movements

Rootwork: Like The Seeds of a Pomegranate

When it feels like the world is suspended in a state of permacrisis, community is the root that grounds us, giving us stability and hope. Not only does politicised somatics offer us an alternative pathway to reimagine our liberatory futures, but it also demands that we do it together. Like the seeds of a pomegranate, we nestle tightly against one another, connected by the white membrane that threads us together as one.

Inside Movement Medicine: Meet Macole

“I’m learning how it also starts from the self and how it is at the cellular level in which we create ripples and changes at a more macro scale. Innerstanding that being in the body, as a site of transformation, simultaneous effects broader structures. So much of the time we are understanding oppression by intellectualising it.”

Building Collective Power & Preparing to Govern

Exploring the internal and external work. We offer this space for all of us – organisers, liberation workers, community leaders, healers, and abolitionists – to learn about the embodied competencies we need to cultivate in order to build and tolerate power, and reckon with what it costs us when, instead, we default to shame or making ourselves smaller.

So you want to research Palestine?

Researching Palestine as an anti-Zionist academic and mental health practitioner situated in the Global North

 View of Trafalgar square following the fall of Assad A crowd stands in front of Nelson's column with Syrian flags

Politicised Somatics in Practice, Liberation, and Contradiction 

Movement medicine practitioner-in-training dr dima mekdad explores how somatic practice illuminated and complicated her embodied experience navigating the liberation of Syria. 

A concrete camp: embodying collective resistance for Palestine

Musings on a student encampment

 Large spiral set on a plain background, with paint flecks coming off the outside spiral. Image has a green-yellow filter over it.

Intersectional alchemy

A poem by Marai Larasi

 Yomi Sode, Melz Owusu, Marai Larasi and Josh Rivers sitting on chairs in front of a small visible group

Building Brave and Beautiful Movements

Exploring the conditions and contexts that shape how we build and organise within social movements. We are ready.

 red book sits on paving stone and grass. Cover has colourful round drawing in the centre. Title Tending Grief above it with underneath: Embodied rituals for holding our sorrow and growing cultures of care in community. Camille Sapara Barton. Image has orange filter on it

Why we need grief in our social movements

The Dagara people see regular grief tending as necessary for the health of the community. Why don’t we do the same? asks Camille Sapara Baron in this excerpt from their book Tending Grief

 purple illustration with outline drawings of Marai Larasi, Farzana Khan, Staci Haines, and China Mills

The Power of Somatics for Collective Transformation

A discussion about the need and potential of somatics in our social justice movements.

 collage of paper that reads 'we will allways find a way, curious and creative path' with a cut out image of pink tulips

An Introduction to Politicised Somatics

We are portals towards liberation.