This week, we are savoring in the delight of slowing down and wading into the generative waters of free-flowing eros, healing, pleasure, and embodiment. In a culture of severance and disconnection, how can we collectively move towards inhabiting our bodies and experiences on Earth in a way that is whole, visceral, and pleasurable? What might the winding path of lineage repair and ancestral reverence offer in the here and now? In this week’s episode, Pavini Moray holds a wide container for exploration within these unseen and magical realms, guiding us back to the unique wisdom and gifts each one of us carries within our bones for reawakening.
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An excerpt from Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, written and edited by adrienne maree brown about understanding embodied trauma and somatics.
(Includes transcript of the podcast)
Staci K. Haines, the founder of “Generative Somatics,” has integrated her extensive experience in both transforming individual and social trauma and in grassroots movements into uniquely powerful work that has proven to be incredibly helpful to a wide range of social justice activists, many of whom have been deeply hurt by oppression or violence. In this panel, leaders from a range of cutting-edge groups, including Prentis Hemphill of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), and Raquel Lavina from the National Domestic Workers Alliance, share how they have been able to successfully integrate embodied transformation into their social change work.
In June 2018, generative somatics (gs) created a podcast with Spenta Kandawalla, Prentis Hemphill and Staci K. Haines, hosted by adrienne maree brown. It’s a conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change.
Lou Hemmerman, Gesine Wenzel and Eweryst Zaremba from The Ulex Project are working together to develop Resourcing Resilience, Working with Trauma, a mainly somatics/bodywork based training to develop understanding, skills and better culture in working with trauma. Check their website for upcoming training dates.
Article by Sage Hayes on working with trauma as a massage therapist.
Embodied Trauma put on a conference bringing together researchers and practitioners working on healing trauma through the body. Here you’ll find links to their past speakers, a directory of somatic experiencing practitioners as well as their recommended reading and listening.
An article about the beginnings of the Disability Justice movement in The States
This paper looks at some health needs specific to transgender folks and offer accessible, practical, and herbal recommendations for healing and support. Because this is such a huge topic, this paper will cover people on the transmasculine spectrum (taking or not taking testosterone). This resource is mainly aimed at herbalists but offers helpful information for all therapists serving transgender people.
TRANSLATION as a method and practice for working with INCLUSIVE and PHYSICALLY INTEGRATED DANCE. The exercises and resources shared here are taken from many different places and peoples, histories and bodies.