morning community practice:
Honoring + expressing our emotions through somatic movement
Feeling and expressing our feelings is how we come back into connection with our sense of self, our agency, our desires and values and limits, our embodied boundaries, and an embodied sense of knowing what next step is right for us.
Oppression, abuse, and neglect (small and large, on individual and cultural levels) teach our bodies that it is dangerous to for certain parts of us/parts of our reality/parts of our experience/emotions to exist.
Practicing in community helps support our bodies in feeling safe enough to reconnect to what has been severed and smothered by oppression in small, regular doses.
These practices are intended to support you in reconnecting with these parts, getting to know them and their expression, and integrating them more fully into your life in gentle, sustainable ways.
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Through a variety of teachers, practices, and experiences, particularly influenced by my Integrative Changework certification and David Bedrick's UnShaming approach, I've developed an expressive somatic movement flow that I'll facilitate us through to support us in learning more about what our bodies are telling us about how we feel.
These somatic movements can be as small or big, gentle or vigorous as you'd like them to be. They can be done standing or sitting.
No somatic experience required, though it's recommended that you are not in an active state of crisis so that you can access your sense of agency as you practice.
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Each Thursday in June, I'll open up this online space where we can practice together.
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Donation based, $5-15 suggested.
50% of donations in June will be redistributed to a fundraiser for Waseem and his family in Gaza, who our neighbor Zenaida has been coordinating fundraising and support for.
So far, fundraising has allowed Waseem to evacuate to Belgium. His mother and teen sister remain in Gaza. Funds will be used to support Waseem as he continues through the asylum process (he is not allowed to work during that time), and his mother and sister who are trying to survive in Gaza.