Racism, implicit bas, intergenerational and racialized trauma all become a part of our epigenetic story, embedding these experiences in our nervous systems deep in cellular and muscle memory. This workshop uses movement/body awareness and consciousness to settle the nervous system and disrupt these destructive patterns.

There is a natural intersection where activism and physical movement meet and have the potential to be transformative for both the mover and those who are bearing witness to the movement. This workshop, using Dr. Martin Luther King's words as our proscenium and frame will explore breath and movement as a way to literally move oneself along the continuum from ally to activist in the spirit of the fierce urgency of now. The time we live in is calling for more of us to stand up and move out into the street to disrupt and dismember white supremacy in all its forms. We literally need fierce bodies to uncover and reveal themselves across the globe. This workshop will offer several practices to show people how to do this for themselves through mindful movement, body consciousness and spiritual awareness. The workshop will also demonstrate several settling or calming practices that are centered in movement to be used in the presence of perceived danger or threat. These practices will address the autonomic nervous system , sympathetic and parasympathetic and work with the dorsal and ventral vagal centers and responses.