Knowledge Share Description
Somatics, from the Greek root SOMA, meaning the living body in wholeness is an ancient lifeway embedded in animality. How we survive is a bodily process. It's an organic unfolding. Civilization and the project of colonial modernity has sought to dislocate us from this truth to uphold the Cartesian duality of the mind/body split that allows for systemic dominance to take hold. Remembering ourselves as enfleshed beings is a process of reclaiming our embodied truths, re-calling the language of our bodies, and living from them in ways that undo systems of dominance. This knowledge share is an exploration into the body as a site and location of liberation. It is an experiential decoupling from systemic dominance in order to awaken into pockets of freedom. Anchored in a political cultural somatics (Menakem), attuned to somatic trauma resolution (Levine) and anchored in feminist ecological perspectives, this is a place to return home to the body, resource, and practice staying with the trouble of our times.
We will explore:
Understand somatics as an ancestral lifeway
Attune the patterns of nervous system activation
Unpack the links between systemic dominance and embodiment
Onboard trauma-attuned nervous system care practices as liberation work
Cost
$35 - low income
$50 - standard
$75 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
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The zoom link will be sent upon registration. Recording will be available for 30 days.
Please apply here for a scholarship.
Accessibility Information
Virtual Gathering
*ASR (automated) captioning provided
The knowledge share zoom link will be sent out immediately upon purchase, along with any other necessary information.
Wednesday October 2, 2024
5:00pm - 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Class will be recorded and available for 30 days. This means you can join from anywhere in the world.
Facilitator
tayla shanaye, m.a. & phd (she/they) is a living body engaged in somatic decolonial Black feminist scholarship, education and counseling. tayla has a master’s in somatic counseling psychology and a doctorate in women’s spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently, tayla provides somatically-oriented therapeutic containment for private clients, serves as a lead facilitator and co-director for Weaving Earth, facilitates organizational diversity, equity and access trainings, and teaches special topics in race, political somatic psychology, and liberation practice at the university level. they have authored several resources on somatics and personal-social transformation, including Nourishing the Nervous System (2024), Locate Your Liberate (2022), and Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices (2018). tayla lives in so-called Marquette, MI with her two young children, spouse, and dogs. When not engaged in scholarship, tayla is busy baking bread and resting.