Embodiment & Somatics
Reconnect deeply with your body as a source of wisdom, learning practices that cultivate mindfulness, healing, and a deeper self-understanding.
taught by Ebyän Chimba
Module 1Module One
An introduction into somatics and embodiment for transformation with your host, Eby Chimba. Engage our body-mind-spirits as portals with Petra Kuppers, a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. Explore the Four Cornerstones for accelerating the shift from a Domination System to a mo...
Chapter 1
Opening Session With Eby Chimba
Chapter 2
Starship Somatics: Movement Sensations For Everyone With Petra Kuppers
Chapter 3
Q&A With Petra Kuppers
Chapter 4
Creating Social Systems that Support Pleasure and Healing: Four Cornerstones With Riane Eisler
Chapter 5
Q&A With Riane Eisler
Module 2Module Two
Transition to be in our bodies with professor and author, Christine Caldwell. Reconnect with your body's innate wisdom to heal in motion with Yasmin Lambat, a fascia-informed somatic movement therapist and educator.
Chapter 1
Bodyfulness With Christine Caldwell
Chapter 2
Q&A With Christine Caldwell
Chapter 3
Healing in Motion With Yasmin Lambat
Module 3Module Three
Dive into understanding the connections between personal and systemic transformation with Staci Haines, somatic teacher and author of “The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice”. Implement boundaries to embody receive, give and take with Dr. Betty Martin, a Chiropractor and intimacy coach.
Chapter 1
Safety, Belonging, and Dignity: Connecting Personal and Social Transformation With Staci Haines
Chapter 2
Q&A With Staci Haines
Chapter 3
Receive, Give, Take, Allow: How the Quadrants of the Wheel of Consent Develop Autonomy and Create More Fun With Betty Martin
Chapter 4
Q&A With Betty Martin
Module 4Module Four
Ground yourself in this movement workshop with Eby Chimba. Eby introduces the socratic dialogue process.
Module 5Module Five
Explore your own body and allow yourself to feel intimate with sexological bodyworker, Aisha Paris Smith. Explore the different types of mother-newborn bonds and the somatic markers they leave with psychotherapist/holistic healer, Sister Efu Nyaki.
Chapter 1
Body-Led Intimacy and Arousal With Aisha Paris Smith
Chapter 2
Q&A With Aisha Paris Smith
Chapter 3
My Body Is the Only Concrete Thing I Have for Sure, and It Carries All of My Ancestors That Came Before Me With Efu Nyaki
Chapter 4
Q&A With Efu Nyaki
Module 6Module Six
Embodiment teacher, Ya’Acov Darling Khan shares his learnings from Indigenous and shamanic communities on why movement is medicine. Connect your body to the intelligence of the Earth with facilitator, Kate Joyner.
Chapter 1
Why Is Movement Medicine? With Ya’Acov Darling Khan
Chapter 2
Q&A With Ya’Acov Darling Khan
Chapter 3
Animate Body, Animate Earth With Kate Joyner
Chapter 4
Q&A With Kate Joyner
Module 7Module Seven
Move from a personal embodiment practice into being a part of an ecology of transformation, with artist and embodiment educator Camille Barton. Loosen your body and find what feels good to you with Akeim Toussaint-Buck, an interdisciplinary performer and maker.
Chapter 1
Moving from Personal Wellbeing to Collective Transformation With Camille Barton
Chapter 2
Q&A With Camille Barton
Chapter 3
My Dance My Joy: Dance as a Spiritual Practice for Liberation with Akeim Toussaint-Buck
Chapter 4
Q&A with Akeim Toussaint-Buck
- 7 Modules
- 25 Sessions
- 15 leading somatic teachers, practitioners and facilitators
- Curated readings and resources
- Community discussion area
- To explore our lived experience of the world and gain deep personal insight of our own somatic reality
- To understand the relationships between the body, mind and experience, and between embodiment and social transformation
- To address the workings of trauma and experiment with transformational practices that reconnect us with our bodies, including Somatic Experiencing, Fascia Informed Movement, Movement Medicine, Mythosomatics, and much more