Blocs & Bodies, healing our world from the inside out.
Somatic liberation practices to support journeys of coming home to Land, Body and Community.
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Founder
I operate at the intersections between the health of our communities and the individual capacity for interoception. I am driven by a vision for the future of improved connection that leads to health on a wholistic, systemic level. I have my Masters in Public Health from New York University and with knowledge gained from a career as a professional Modern dancer, movement instructor and member of the New Era Young Lords political activist party, I seek to support people in reconnecting with their bodies in an act of resistance.
I use a combination of science-backed techniques and indigenous knowledge to facilitate decolonial journeys of home-coming.
The Approach
Using social justice strategies that employ somatic liberation practices, I support journeys towards revolutionizing our society. Exchanges are designed to reshape a culture of disconnection. The highest vision of this work is to improve the health of individuals and communities by reconnecting with the wisdom of ancestral lands, plants, bodies and communities.
Reconnect to Your Body and Your Wisdom
Colonial structures thrive on the exploitation of bodies disconnected from spirit, land, community and ancestral knowledge sources. Let’s use the experience and wisdom of coming home to make ourselves, our community and our land inaccessible to exploitation. Blocs & Bodies was birthed to facilitate a reconnection to our severed aspects of self.
Transforming the Health of Your Community and Land
Indigenous knowledge holds a definition of “self” that is inclusive of community, land, spirit and so when we reflect on and heal our relationship to self & spirit, we are simultaneously working with the health of community and land. We address the inflammation within the body by addressing the inflammation of Mother Earth and vice versa.
Somatic Class Series
Ongoing classes invite participants to explore the depths of their bodily sensations, and connection to that which is outside and from them.
Home Coming Workshops
Join specialized workshops designed to deepen and expand on practices of connection, resiliency and liberation.
A Community of Cultivators
Free opportunities to connect with others crafting their health out of decolonial relationships, abolition somatics and ancestral wisdom.
Inflamed, Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
“Fighting the damming of rivers, the invisibilizing of Black pain, the clear-cutting of forests, the incarceration of minorities, the monocropping of foods, the poor health outcomes of Black and poor people, the land theft and genocide on Indigenous people, the wage gap, and the attempts to control women’s reproductive power … It starts with the act of repairing those relationships that have been damaged through systems of domination. ”
Embodied Activism, Rae Johnson, PhD
“That’s the agreement and commitment to relationship… I will let your experience into my body, and I will carry it, and you will let mine in and carry it and hold it in you, and we will let that change us both.”
Contact Me.
Email: BlocsandBodies@gmail.com
For any inquiries or feedback, please feel free to reach out to me. I am available during regular business hours and will respond as soon as possible.
Thank you for your interest in contacting me. I look forward to hearing from you!
