This is not for denying the reality locally and globally and pretending we are above it. This is for building capacity, clarity and connection to be able to meet our reality, day by day, moment by moment.
Often with big community trauma, lingering stress and adrenaline flare up conditions. My hope is that this can be a small way to let your shoulders down and listen to what is needed personally and in community.
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This is offered for the benefit of all beings. Getting free together means centering the margins. Be careful not to use somatic teachings to reinforce oppression.
I do my best to honor the specific teachers and contexts that this info comes from. Be intentional that as these body-based teachings are passed on, they don’t lose connection to those who’ve come before us.
Teachings that make us more possible
reading list
Trauma Stewardship An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Bodystories A Guide to Experiential Anatomy
Ace What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society and the Meaning of Sex
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
local somatic movement (predominately white)
Feldenkrais – very gentle + slow movements
InterPlay – movement, storytelling
Dance Church – dj, no talking dance party (my instructors: Kate Wallich and Matt Drews)
Gyrokinesis – full body movement
Contact Improv – touch based movement
Somatic Education 