Embody your political commitments through practice and power!

For our movements to succeed, we need to know more than what needs to change, we need to know how to change it. Embodied practice teaches us to transform.

How can embodied practice get us closer to our longings for freedom?

“The invitation to center within chaos, without pressure to find stillness, has been very important to my continued engagement in both organizing and healing.”

—Jae, Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizer.

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How can somatics be integrated into our leadership? How can we make somatics scalable to meet the needs of a larger collective? What does embodied practice and personal transformation have to do with building stronger organizing and social movements?

This program is designed for people within social and environmental justice movements, including cultural organizers, staff, members, and activists. We also welcome politicized healers, facilitators, and other one-on-one practitioners who are looking to more effectively support movement leaders and organizations.

Calling all cultural organizers, movement leaders, activists, politicized healers, facilitators, and practitioners! We are extending the deadline to apply for Embodied Leadership I and II, so if you haven’t yet applied, there’s still ti
Meet the Co-facilitation team: adrienne maree brown adrienne maree brown (she/they) is growing a garden of healing ideas. Informed by decades of movement facilitation, somatics, science fiction scholarship and doula work, adrienne has nurtured Emerg
Meet the Co-facilitation Team: Yashna Padamsee and Eliana Rubin Yashna Maya Padamsee is a first generation south asian immigrant queer femme raised in and by the US South. Yashna has spent 20+ years supporting social movements through creating innov
Meet the Co-facilitation Team: Fayza Bundalli I teach generative somatics as a methodology to QT/BIPOC practitioners, and also work 1:1 as a somatic therapist and bodyworker. These are my drop-in-the-ocean offerings toward our collective healing, a
A couple weeks ago, we gathered for our Queerly Beloved intensive, which was a weekend of community, truth speaking, and centered transformation. Through politicized somatics, we practiced being with ourselves and each other in ways that made room fo
I was born in Baltimore and raised in Festac, Nigeria—held by the lineages of Igbo ancestors, freedom fighters, artists, and healers. As a queer, non-binary person, I’m shaped by these lands and legacies that continue to teach me about re
What happens when we bring our whole bodies—our wisdom, our patterns, our presence—into our leadership? What becomes possible for our movements when transformation isn’t just theoretical, but practiced? This two-weekend training is
🐬Today we are officially announcing enrollment for our next training - Embodied Leadership I&II. This training is the fruit of many seeds planted long ago through different relationships and iterations of embodied practice for building powerful
We joined this platform as an experiment in 2022 to reach more of our people and spread the word about politicized somatics. And we have continued to grapple with our relationship to social media: the ways it serves, and the ways it hurts. Like many
✨Thank you to everyone who joined us for our recent Sanctuary Embodied Info Session! ✨ 
We were so grateful to connect with you and share about the lineages, movements, and principles that guide our work. If you missed it, no worries! Stay connected
✨Deadline extended!✨ We’re keeping the application open for Queerly Beloved until May 15th. In a time of rising repression, this retreat is a call to our lineage of queer and trans resilience. Through restorative practices and collective rigo