— A SELF-GUIDED WORKSHOP

Why feel?

because most of us were trained not to.

Healing Our Lineages and Transforming Our Communities is a 17-lesson journey back into your body.

BEGIN THE WORKSHOP 
4 hours of lessons • Closed Captioning • Self-Paced

You know how to push through, to charge forward, to override — but do you know how to feel?

You can read every room, manage every crisis, hold everyone else together. But somewhere along the way, you stopped checking in with your own body. There's a tightness in your chest, an exhaustion in your bones, a quiet sense that you're moving through your life instead of living it. You've learned to override feeling, but at a great cost to yourself.

What if the thing you've been pushing past is actually the doorway back to yourself?

Why Feel? is a self-guided workshop for people who are ready to reconnect with their bodies, heal what's been passed down to them, and let that healing ripple out into their relationships, their communities, and the systems they're part of.

We'd love to have you with us.

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Does this resonate with you?

  • You're tired of carrying patterns you didn't choose, in your family, your relationships, your body, and you're ready to put some of it down.

  • You want to be part of collective change, but you keep noticing the same reactive patterns showing up in yourself, your team, or your community.

  • You understand the concept of healing intellectually, but understanding healing and actually feeling it in your body are two very different things.

  • You have a deep longing to belong with a group of people invested in their own healing and transformation.

If any of that landed, we want you to know something – you can't think your way into a nervous system that feels safe, present, and alive. And you can't strategize your way out of contraction, numbness, or burnout. At some point, the healing has to move through the body because feeling is a portal into profound growth.

That's what this workshop is for — We built it for you.

Explore your Transformational Characterness

A Transformational Character is someone who tries. Someone who takes courageous moves towards their own healing. Someone who knows the journey is long but deep down believes that change is possible in their lineage and in their future.

This workshop is for you if:

  • You're already doing your own healing work, and you're ready to bring your body into it, not just your mind

  • You're an organizer, leader, healer, or caregiver who wants to model the change you're asking others to make

  • You're looking for real practices to reconnect with presence, aliveness, and purpose

  • You’re curious about somatics and embodiment – and feel a spark that something is possible here.

If you read that first list and felt something in you settle, we think you’re ready.

Start the journey

What you're getting when you join:

  • Full access to all 17 lessons across 3 modules (4 hours of teaching)

  • A detailed companion workbook to guide your reflection and practice

  • Teaching from four experienced teachers in somatics, organizing, and embodiment

  • Closed captioning in English on every lesson

  • A complimentary month in The Practice Ground, our ongoing community space with an abundant practice library

Sliding scale $150-$250

Bringing a team, staff, or community group? You can get the group rate here.

If cost is a barrier, please apply for a scholarship.

Enrollment is open

Guided by four practitioners of this methodology

  • A woman with dreadlocks sitting at a wooden table in a room with brick walls and large green plants, wearing a denim shirt and looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.

    Prentis Hemphill

    Prentis is a therapist, somatics teacher and facilitator, political organizer, writer and the founder of The Embodiment Institute. For over 10 years, Prentis has been working with individuals and organizations during their most challenging moments of change; navigating leadership transitions, conflict, and realigning practice with values.

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    Kasha Ho

    Kasha Hoʻokili Ho is co-founder of The Embodiment Institute, where she works with organizations to align their values with their daily work and organizational structure. She contributes to programmatic strategy, design, and operational management for TEI. She also leads the land-based learning work of TEI. Kasha uses fractal theory to assess, design, and enact new systems of collective abundance. She has been designing social change processes with communities for social, economic, and environmental justice for twenty years.

  • An older woman with short hair and glasses, wearing earrings and a dark top, sitting at a table with a person whose hair is visible in the foreground. They are indoors near a window with a potted plant in the background.

    Alta Starr

    Alta Starr is a Somatic Coach and Bodyworker with a private practice and a lineage of training in embodied leadership and trauma healing. They support the development of methodology, programs and research on the team. Alta’s nickname “The Oracle” for her ability to voice wisdom our hearts know but often forget.

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    Óscar Trujillo

    Óscar Trujillo is an embodiment doula whose practice bridges somatic movement education, bodywork, intuitive energy reading, the expressive arts, trauma support and subtle body healing techniques with individuals, groups and movement organizations. This year Oscar has been leading monthly live practices in The Practice Ground.

  • “Why Feel? was timely in my personal journey as a Transformational Character. I felt my nervous system immediately relax in the space and that allowed me to experience presence. It was evident that the TEI team put forth a lot of intentionality in crafting each section and its purpose within the event. I’m grateful for the opportunities to connect with and move my body, to witness my own emotions, and be led by such genuine individuals into a collective of grace, love, and healing.”

    —Why Feel? workshop participant

  • “This workshop offered not only accessible practices, but a great quality of attention and intention. The pace was gentle, the space was well held and it was beautiful to watch the collaboration of the team unfold, as well as see what kind of presence is possible from teachers who are clearly committed to practice and a generosity of feeling.“

    —Why Feel? participant

  • This is a beautiful offering that reminds us that we can start simple to shape the world we want! That we can start by feeling, feeling into our fear, courage, and awe.

    — Why Feel? participant

  • "thank you for this kindness and gift. i feel like i am being held, seen, and grounded in being embodied and understanding more for myself. i am a transformational character and it feels so affirming to be able to practice this with all of you. there has been such a curiosity and resonance in what was shared here. thank you."

    —Why Feel? participant

Open the portal to your body’s wisdom.

Healing your relationship to your own body isn't separate from healing your relationships, your community, or the systems you're part of.

It's where all of that begins.

We'd be honored to have you with us - join now.