This course represents an offer inside of a larger lineage of politicized somatic practice and is meant to support activists, organizers, healers, educators, and cultural workers in our work for liberation. 

We live inside of conditions where change often feels impossible, still the call for a world where life gets to flourish mobilizes many us towards action. We want the action we take to mean something, we want it to matter, we want it to support the material conditions of our lives to change in fundamental ways. 

There is so much that we are up against that gets in the way of visions becoming reality, but through the body we get to uncover the power and the possibility that has always been there. 

We know that our longings can't wait for the right conditions or the right moment, but politicized somatics gives us a path to living our longings on an individual and collective level in the here and now. 

Through our long tails inside of social justice movement, we see  that what our movements are missing right now is the capacity to hold vision and action at the same time and to hold the complexity that allows these ingredients to exist in their right mix. This is how we arrived at this series of courses that will grow your capacity to: 

• name your longings, know your limits, and take decisive action towards what you care about 

• move from a place of dignity and power rather than shame and internalized oppression 

• work with conflict in a generative way that builds a shared future rather than leaves you or anyone else behind 

We hold that these competencies require us to hold more and more complexity that allows for more and more of our aliveness and more and more of our power, alone and together. 

This three day in person course will build your capacity, embodiment and understanding of yourself, specifically as it relates to boundaries, for the sake of supporting your healing and your work inside of liberation struggles. We support politicized healing and we believe movement work includes all work, including care work, creative work, and support work. This course is for you if you care about working towards liberation and feel stuck inside your current embodiment.  

We hold that boundaries can serve as the gateway to our longings being realized in the world. They have a tendency to delineate our actions, carve out space inside of our relationships, and support our agency and choicefulness. Knowing our boundaries and our limits is one of the key competencies inside of visioning towards a different world, an invaluable skill for this moment. In fact, an embodied knowing of where we end and someone or something else begins actually leads us to more capacity to be with complexity and change.

This course will dignify what has been taking care of you all along, and open up a range of new, embodied choices though somatic practice. We will practice listening to the body and encouraging opening towards a new shape that is sustained by action. 

We promise that you will leave this course with a clearer sense of your own commitments, how to support yourself in your own healing and life choices,  and how to make choiceful impact in this moment. In practice together we will generate a greater understanding of your relationship to boundaries that align with, and support fulfillment of our deepest longings.

The conditons we live inside of are asking us to know our lines, and to take bold action around them and towards our visions for a world based off of life and liberation. 

• Three days of in-person sessions, 10-6 PM Friday and Saturday, and 10-4 on Sunday

• On-site small groups, partner work, individual work

• One to one and small group coaching

• Practice in the Jo Kata, a martial arts practice from the Japanese lineage of Aikido

• Pre-work and curated reading list

• Embodied daily and weekly practices to take home