Return to Human: Touching Our Hearts, Liberating Our Bodies

Within your body lives the intersection of trauma and resilience. It is here we can heal and create the more beautiful world that we know is possible. Our current culture of interlocking systems oppresses and severs our connection to the inherent beauty of belonging on this planet. For each of us to return to being fully human, we need to come home to ourselves. As Frantz Fanon writes, “Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?” We need to come home to our bodies to heal from lovelessness that perpetuates injustices.

Over the weekend, return to your human mind, body, and breath while reimagining and practicing new ways of being in the world.

• Co-create a community rooted in rest, trust, authentic expression, support, and justice.
• Unpack and analyze how interlocking systems of oppression impact our interpersonal lives and bodies.
• Experience somatic tools to heal the lovelessness we all experience such as joy, connection, and pleasure. 
• Confront and rewrite violent social narratives about self and others that have become internalized beliefs.

In this workshop, we will experience our body as a source of wisdom and a site of empowerment and healing. It is here where lived experiences, memories, breath, and emotions are doorways to embodied ways of knowing. We will learn and experience how rest, play, and pleasure have the potential to create a world where all people have access to well-being. Join this workshop to imagine new ways of being and experience the healing capacity of creative expression, authentic connection, and sacred community.