In It for the Long Haul: growing embodied capacity for the sake of collective liberation

Wednesdays 8:30-9:15am

A weekly online offering of gently guided body-based somatic practices to center, presence, move and grow capacity; reshaping ourselves together, within community.

Facilitated by Amanda Franz

$5-25 sliding scale

45 minutes of guided consent-based somatic practices with optional opportunities for partner activities.  Class will start with a short group check-in, move into practice, and then end with optional buddy time.  

Integrative approach drawing from/influenced by BodyMind Centering, Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, Resmaa Menakem/Somatic Abolitionism and the Strozzi Institute. 

If you, like me, are choosing to live this precious life in the challenging (and beautiful) change work of unlearning colonization and white body supremacy,
Of reducing harm and dreaming collective liberation, 
Of building new systems/structures/relationships that are aligned with values of safety, belonging and dignity,
Then you know that we'll need to practice new ways of being, together. 
You know that this work is immense and multifaceted, and that our bodies, as fractals, are also a part of that change.    
You know that we can’t do this alone, and that the repatterning of ourSelves happens with and between others.

This invitation is to join a community of practice.

Together, we’ll practice centering our bodies voices and wisdom by making space to slow down, listen and tend.  
Together, we’ll practice being human, finding movement in stuck places and offering compassion. 
Together, we’ll co-regulate in the fullness of this time of violence, genocide and planetary destruction.  
Together, we’ll make space to show up for ourselves, within community, and to grow capacity, so that we may continue to show up for the long haul.  

This practice space is for all bodies who are moving and dreaming in big and small ways, towards a future where safety, dignity, belonging and the resources to live are available for all.  
 
QTBIPOC welcome. 
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Let's practice being bodies together.

Register Here

Accessibility Notes:
Classes will be held online using the Zoom platform. 
Closed Captioning will not be available.  Sorry:(
Classes will not be visually/screen centered. 
Activities/practices can be creatively adapted to accommodate personal mind/body capacities.