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Search results for: somatics

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: Reimagining the Future Starts in the Body

“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.”

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.

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. 

blue and purple watercolour background with portraits of Marai Larasi, Prentis Hemphill, and Farzana Khan.

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.

Second Lives

Musings on a second life by Chloe-Louise Adegoke and illustrations by Isha Joy

Care Under Capitalism: the work of health and sex

Care Under Capitalism — the work of health and sex by S.N.H.

front cover of Sophie Chauhan's book Curious Affinities which has a mustard yellow cover and is sitting on top of a woven blanket. Image has yellow-green filter on it

Is pain always political?

An excerpt from Sophie Chauhan’s book Curious Affinities

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

A four frame instant photo of Evie Muir holding her book Radical Rest sits on the grass with purple flowers in the foreground. Image has blue filter on it.

Holistic expeditions of a somatic cartographer

Evie Muir explores and navigates the body as a landscape.

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.

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Movement Medicine

Developing a cohort of somatic practitioners embedded in social movements to support personal and structural transformation.

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The Power of Somatics for Racial Justice

A discussion about the need and potential of somatics for racial justice.

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.

green and yellow graphic that reads Anchoring Resilience with Nkem Ndefo and a small picture of Nkem, a Black femme person with braids and a maroon shirt

Anchoring Resilience

A workshop sharing frameworks and practices to reduce stress, address trauma and build embodied resilience.

blue background with a light blue nervous system illustration that reads somatic healing: theraputic touch for healing trauma with maira holzmann

Somatic Healing: Therapeutic Touch for Healing Trauma

An introduction to healing trauma through somatic practices

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Somatic Experiencing & Sexual Trauma Recovery

Introduces the concepts of somatic experiencing (SE) and co-regulation for healing sexual trauma, with practical tools for down-regulation.