Date: Sunday June 28th, 10AM-5:30 PM
Location: This workshop takes place on our land project in Siler City, North Carolina. The location is confidential but the address will be shared with you after your enrollment.
About the workshop:
This embodiment workshop focuses on deepening or restoring a sense of basic trust by coming more fully into the body. We may “know” that acceptance of what is is the primary path to greater ease and efficacy in life, while our muscles and nervous system stay on guard, or even more taxing, at war.
Through play, movement and stillness, we will explore:
How we do or don’t inhabit our bodies
How becoming more at home in the body will strengthen our ability to be with uncertainty and the all too familiar discomfort and pain of our daily lives
Practices of silence, communicating with the land, and (re)discovering our bodies’ lost languages
By finding our own unique ways into tenderness, we will build a foundation for staying with ourselves even when facing challenging energies such as grief or rage.
About the Teacher:
Alta Starr (she/her) is a Somatic Coach and Bodyworker and member of the TEI Methodology Team. Alta works with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity and has 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 is nicknamed “The Oracle” for her ability to voice wisdom our hearts know but often forget. She teaches embodied leadership and trauma healing with Strozzi Institute and generative somatics. Alta’s experience in philanthropy includes over twenty-five years of building political power in underserved and marginalized communities through her time working at New World Foundation and Ford Foundation. She has served on the boards of or as an advisor to countless foundations including Needmor Fund, the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, Open Society Foundations’ Southern Initiative, and the Southern Partners Fund. She currently serves on the board of Hidden Leaf Foundation.
About the fee:
Your fee supports the work of the Embodiment Institute, including the growth and sustainability of our land project. We value both accessibility and class analysis, and leveraging privilege to support others in our community. We ask that you pay on the scale according to your ability, in order to support access, and engage in interdependence in action. The practice of choosing a rate that is both affordable and heartfelt is a mindfulness and justice-seeking practice. We will not question your self-determined rate.
Date: Sunday June 28th, 10AM-5:30 PM
Location: This workshop takes place on our land project in Siler City, North Carolina. The location is confidential but the address will be shared with you after your enrollment.
About the workshop:
This embodiment workshop focuses on deepening or restoring a sense of basic trust by coming more fully into the body. We may “know” that acceptance of what is is the primary path to greater ease and efficacy in life, while our muscles and nervous system stay on guard, or even more taxing, at war.
Through play, movement and stillness, we will explore:
How we do or don’t inhabit our bodies
How becoming more at home in the body will strengthen our ability to be with uncertainty and the all too familiar discomfort and pain of our daily lives
Practices of silence, communicating with the land, and (re)discovering our bodies’ lost languages
By finding our own unique ways into tenderness, we will build a foundation for staying with ourselves even when facing challenging energies such as grief or rage.
About the Teacher:
Alta Starr (she/her) is a Somatic Coach and Bodyworker and member of the TEI Methodology Team. Alta works with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity and has 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 is nicknamed “The Oracle” for her ability to voice wisdom our hearts know but often forget. She teaches embodied leadership and trauma healing with Strozzi Institute and generative somatics. Alta’s experience in philanthropy includes over twenty-five years of building political power in underserved and marginalized communities through her time working at New World Foundation and Ford Foundation. She has served on the boards of or as an advisor to countless foundations including Needmor Fund, the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation, Open Society Foundations’ Southern Initiative, and the Southern Partners Fund. She currently serves on the board of Hidden Leaf Foundation.
About the fee:
Your fee supports the work of the Embodiment Institute, including the growth and sustainability of our land project. We value both accessibility and class analysis, and leveraging privilege to support others in our community. We ask that you pay on the scale according to your ability, in order to support access, and engage in interdependence in action. The practice of choosing a rate that is both affordable and heartfelt is a mindfulness and justice-seeking practice. We will not question your self-determined rate.
