“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.”
“Taking just a few minutes to land in our bodies changes the quality of how we are together. It creates a different foundation for connection, conversation, and collective imagination, and my hope is that we can all build on those skills and apply them to our daily practices.”
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.
“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.”
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.
Movement medicine practitioner-in-training dr dima mekdad explores how somatic practice illuminated and complicated her embodied experience navigating the liberation of Syria.
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.
Musings on a second life by Chloe-Louise Adegoke and illustrations by Isha Joy
Care Under Capitalism — the work of health and sex by S.N.H.
An excerpt from Sophie Chauhan’s book Curious Affinities
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
Evie Muir explores and navigates the body as a landscape.
A discussion about the need and potential of somatics in our social justice movements.
Developing a cohort of somatic practitioners embedded in social movements to support personal and structural transformation.
A discussion about the need and potential of somatics for racial justice.
We are portals towards liberation.
A workshop sharing frameworks and practices to reduce stress, address trauma and build embodied resilience.
An introduction to healing trauma through somatic practices
Introduces the concepts of somatic experiencing (SE) and co-regulation for healing sexual trauma, with practical tools for down-regulation.