MAR 5 • Soma Soma Soma #5

A series of workshops exploring what somatic practices are and why practicing them together is so powerful. Each session will feature guest co-facilitators as we discover how working with the body and mind helps us connect, heal, and grow as a collective. In this workshop, we will rehearse the future together, as we “feel into and re-member our bodies and ourselves as an anti-colonial and liberation practice. We understand the work of creating the conditions and contexts to access our wholeness as deeply political…”Ewa Jasiewicz, Farzana Khan, Sarah Al-Sarraj, “An Introduction to Politicized Somatics” 1/30/23, Healing Justice London website What…

A series of workshops exploring what somatic practices are and why practicing them together is so powerful. Each session will feature guest co-facilitators as we discover how working with the body and mind helps us connect, heal, and grow as a collective.

In this workshop, we will rehearse the future together, as we “feel into and re-member our bodies and ourselves as an anti-colonial and liberation practice. We understand the work of creating the conditions and contexts to access our wholeness as deeply political…”
Ewa Jasiewicz, Farzana Khan, Sarah Al-Sarraj, “An Introduction to Politicized Somatics” 1/30/23, Healing Justice London website

What is Somatics?

Somatics is about our ability to be present with sensations and emotions by building tolerance for what we feel. It helps us become aware of our current practices and learn new ones that align with our values and who we want to become.
Definition inspired by Stacy K. Haines, in “Politics of Trauma”

This session's question
How can we practice radical care in a time of polycrisis?

Agenda
- Welcome
- Movement release practice & collective self-care
- Intro: What is somatics?
- Exploration: How can we practice radical care?
- Somatic drawing & journaling
- Harvest and closing

 

Bio

Emily Thulier is a trauma therapist, student, and (aspiring) group facilitator. She spends most of her energy building & maintaining community through the use of mutual aid, somatic awareness, creative arts & advocacy. Currently, she is focused on helping individuals (re)connect with their capacity to feel whole. Emily is a white woman, born in Kentucky, and currently living on the unceded land of the Lenape people, AKA Brooklyn, NY.

Katherine Toukhy is an artist/somatic practitioner who combines meditation, movement, and art with skillful curiosity and care. These days, this has meant moving with grief rather than against or despite it. She draws upon her lived experiences as a Coptic Egyptian woman born in unceded Lenapehoking, a long legacy of thinkers and healers, and over a decade of work experience in the visual arts and facilitation.

Amélie Gaulier is a somatic movement therapist, performance artist, and community organizer dedicated to helping people reconnect with the innate power of body-wisdom, collective decolonial repair, and radical imagination. She trusts the interconnected intelligence of our ancient bodies to heal and transform through deep listening and uncovering their stories. Of french and mediterranean white-bodied descent, she is based in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Canarsie land, and is involved in Abolition Solidarity NYC and NYC to Palestine, working to challenge global systems of oppression. Learn more at ameliegaulier.com

 

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 5
7 PM - 9:00 PM
Materials provided! 
Limited capacity
children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult

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