Awareness of both our own and another’s pain is a way into more transformative tenderness. Conditions of claiming and care can be crafted: to claim how trauma has shaped each of us and to care about the impact of trauma on other people. This dual capacity of attunement in activism is alchemical, potent, and preserving of liberatory community. The space between—the field—is a web that is both hurt and informed by trauma.

Scrutiny of others who are in anti-oppression work with us can appear to be a beneficial element of our collective culture. Our desire to build an alternative to supremacy culture seems so naturally to lead us to vigilance. And yet, many of us have seen how our drive to hold accountability in ourselves and others can create a form of relating that is at a minimum corrosive, and at worst, a way of operating that can impact mental health, livelihoods, and remove all possibility for creating a liberatory collective.

Part Two of Kai Cheng Thom’s explorative and empathic approach on the topic of Embodied Conflict Resolution.

We cannot practice embodiment without practicing awareness of who we are and where we come from, and we cannot practice conflict resolution without being aware of the metaphorical water in which we swim.
- Kai Cheng Thom

The beauty of Social Presencing Theatre is that it offers work in the personal body that helps us metabolize and develop stamina for the difficult feelings we experience once we allow inequities within the social body into our consciousness.

We recently caught up with the some of the faculty from our Mind-Body Coaching Certificate and asked them “What are some of the most powerful mind-body tools taught in this program?”

Find out what they had to say….

If we wish to transform the “I can’t” response into “I can," we are called to touch upon the cultivation of compassion for ourselves. We are called to tap into our courage and strength, to lean towards our own experience of suffering, both for ourselves and for the world.
- Atira Tan

Meet the Embodied Social Justice Co-Director Dr Sará King and why she can’t wait to bring the 2022 60-hr Embodied Social Justice Certificate to life starting April 1st.

Meet the Embodied Social Justice Co-Director Dr Rae Johnson and why they can’t wait to bring the 2022 60-hr Embodied Social Justice Certificate to life starting April 1st.

Explore Embodied Social Justice with Rev angel Kyodo williams and Dr Scott Lyons. They talk embodiment, social justice, soft-bellies, the highly contagious nature of reactivity, spiritual bypassing and so much more!

Dr. Sará King has been named by Yoga Journal as one of the 15 most Influential Yogis You Need to Know About! We’re thrilled to see Yoga Journal recognize Dr. Sará King for her work connecting science, yoga, and social justice.