Somatics Foundations for Q/T & BIPOC Practitioners

Somatics Foundations for Q/T & BIPOC Practitioners
(Module 1 - Earth) is a 30 hour in-person skills-based course grounded in Generative Somatics’ methodology.  This course is for practitioners who are queer and/or trans and/or BIPOC, and will develop practitioners’ abilities to introduce somatic practices in their client work.  Over the course of 10 weeks, participants will explore somatic theory, witness and participate in demonstrations of somatic skills, practice with one another, and deepen their embodied capacity to offer somatic work.

In this course we will explore:

• Generative Somatics’ theory of how healing happens through the body.

• Developing somatic declarations with clients.

• Practices for returning to a felt sense of self under conditions of pressure.

• Embodied allyship as a healing practice

• Embodied consent to bring more choicefulness into decision-making.

• Somatic ‘seeing’ - learning to see how the body physically holds trauma.

Where: In-person, at a location near Cambie & Broadway in Vancouver

When: Tuesdays, 9am - 12pm, from April 28 - June 30th

Who: Maximum 10 participants, BIPOC-majority cohort. 

Access info: KN95 masks required.  Teaching space is up a flight of stairs (# steps?). 

There are infinite paths to embodiment; all of our lineages have ways to move trauma through the body, and in many cases these knowledge bases were purposefully disrupted by colonialism, including in my lineage.  Generative Somatics is one methodology amongst many to return to our bodies, and aims to bring somatics to social movement for the explicit purpose of social change.  We will look together at the tributaries of practice that fed into GS, named and unnamed, known and unknown, while also developing and practicing skills that cellularly, in our lineages and in our DNA, we have always known.

Embodiment of healing skills takes time and practice: this course is offered with the intention of being an introductory module in a multi-part series, with participants' own practice of the skills, in class and in their own practices, being the path on which embodiment can take root.  Module 2 - Fire, which builds on this course to continue practitioner development, will be offered in the Fall of 2026.