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. Skill building teaches us. Embodied practice transforms us.

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What skills do we need to build to get us closer to freedom?

Programs
Programs

“I am feeling so much less stuck in existential dread and able to move and take action towards what I care about! I left the weekend feeling challenged and nourished and connected and READY.” - Embodied Leadership (SEEL) Participant

Next Up: CONSPIRE

Next Up: CONSPIRE

Applications Due 6/18
Applications Due 6/18
💨We hear you. You are struggling to stay afloat. You are caring for so many people. You are stretching to meet your community’s needs. You are fighting in the streets. You are tired. You are grieving. You are longing for space to rest and be h
🌬️ Conspire Wielding practice and power towards revolutionary change Embodied workshop series for queer, trans, and BIPOC organizers and cultural workers to exhale and find resource to fuel their work Durham, NC 🌬️ This is a 5 part series - atte
💜For over five years, Yashna and Eliana have collaborated on workshops, trainings, and writings (including co-editing the practice sections in Eliana’s book, Taking the State Out of the Body). This year, in 2026, we are making it official 🪢!
🌊 3 weeks ago we hosted Session One of Sanctuary Embodied’s Embodied Leadership 2026 course (aka SEEL 🦭 ) and we’re all still feeling the power of purpose (porpoise?! 🐬). 🌊 We practiced embodied skills building of centering under pr
🐦‍🔥REPORT BACK! Earlier this year Sanctuary Embodied held an online 5 week Transforming Together Series on how to reinvent or recommit to your role in this movement moment. Participants left this workshop with a clearer sense of their commitmen
💠This FREE series consists of daily 30 minutes of somatics practice for movement leaders, organizers, healers and cultural workers. Join us to grieve, rage, feel our collective power, ground, and resource together to take collective action. 💠 Elia
⚡️ EXTENDED DEADLINE Applications due on Monday January 26th! We have 10 spots open and rolling admissions. Our communities, organizations and movements are in heightened struggle and risk right now. We need each other and the space to learn from o
Applications due on Monday January 12th! Meet the team! ⚡️Facilitated by Yashna Padamsee, Eliana Rubin & Adaku Utah⚡️ Applications are open for our cornerstone program of 2026. Embodied Leadership (SEEL) is a program for organizers, movement bui
Applications are officially open for our cornerstone program of 2026. Embodied Leadership (SEEL) is a program for organizers, movement builders, and cultural workers to build tools to more effectively coordinate, take action, and collaborate towards
There is still time! We know there is a lot pulling our attention these days (to say the least) so we are slowing down and extending the due date for applications to our upcoming online course until Thursday, December 11th. Get yours in today so you
❤️‍🔥Tuesdays | January 20 - February 17, 2026 | 3:00-4:30PT/6:00-7:30ET | Online❤️‍🔥 This online course is designed to support you in reconnecting to a sense of purpose and recommitting or reinventing your role. We are in a prolonged momen