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Rootwork: Re-membering for Black Liberation

“We have a felt sense that something’s wrong. Being able to feel it and work through that to get us back to the place of re-imagining: the dream space, connecting with our internal sense of hope and possibility that I feel can only come from the information our body gives us.”

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.

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.

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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. 

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What It Takes To Heal

In the context of ongoing trauma and upheaval, how do we support connection, survival & embrace the medicine within us?

What It Takes To Heal is an exploratory conversation with Prentis Hemphill, Marai Larasi & Farzana Khan to reconnect us to the power of embodiment for collective transformation.

Spacemaking as Sanctuary // Water Memory 🌊

An exploration in worldbuilding and remembering alternative infrastructures

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Making Space for Embodied Rage in our Healing

A space for racialised/global majority people to explore connections with rage through embodied practice.

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Breath Circle for Collective Capacity

Our Breath Circle for Collective Capacity is a gathering space for grounding. We hold this regular space for light stretching, breathing and meditative practice.

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HJL Aftercare Menu

Tools for taking care of yourself after one of our workshops or events.

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Community Agreements

Guidance for how we show up together in HJL spaces.

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HJL Protest Regulating & Support

Tools to regulate and resource us before, during and after protest.

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Tai Chi & Qigong Session

A one hour practice to support presence and connection.

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Restorative Yoga

A recorded session of our Restorative Yoga for Resilience to support during winter months.