Reclaim Your Power:
Finding Liberation Through Somatics
with Sam Taitel, Nkem Ndefo, Kelsey Blackwell, Anusha Wijeyakumar, and Nick Walker
This full-day summit can be attended via the on-demand recordings.
ABOUT THE SUMMIT
We gathered live and online Saturday, September 16th 2023 for our One-Day Summit to deepen our somatic healing journey around the theme “Reclaim Your Power: Finding Liberation Through Somatics.”
This immersive experience features leading experts to guide us through somatic, body-centred practices that honor our bodies' wisdom and support healing from systemic oppression on our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Through interactive workshops and discussions, we will explore ways to heal and reclaim agency over our bodies, connect with our true selves, find our voice, reclaim our power and expand into a deeper sense of who we are. We will explore what it means to decolonize our minds and our bodies as a form of resistance and joy, and together discover the power of somatics to create both individual and collective liberation.
This summit’s world-leading embodiment experts include Sam Taitel, Nkem Ndefo, Kelsey Blackwell, Anusha Wijeyakumar, and Nick Walker.
Join us and discover somatic and embodiment practices to help you reclaim your power, dignity and worth, and experience the power of coming home to the body.
Register for free today!
PRICING
These deep-dive training experiences are offered with an exclusive discount for all Embody Lab Members. This means that if you attend regularly, your membership fees could well be covered!
All members will be sent their exclusive discount code via email. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
$67
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$0
FREE
FOR MEMBERS!
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SCHEDULE
THIS 8HR WORKSHOP IS AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND TO WATCH AT YOUR OWN PACE
This workshop is now available via the on-demand recordings.
You will receive clear instructions on how to access the class upon registration.
Sam Taitel
Tangible Noticings: Body Language as a Conversation
A 75-MINUTE EXPERIENTIAL SESSION
This workshop will nourish our internal and external relationships by incorporating somatic observations paired with physical practices. Building from gravity, we will move through stances to deepen the intentionality of our interactions and operate in alignment with ourselves.
The exercises utilized involve movement varying from little to moderate. All sections can be modified for meaningful participation from a chair or other stationary position - scaling options will be offered verbally throughout. A weight/household item (like a soup can) that can be held at arm's length for a short duration will be used. This object should be light for you - likely in the realm of 1-5 pounds depending on your body.
Nkem Ndefo
Sharing Power With the Body: An Introduction to the Therapeutic Tremor
A 75 MINUTE EXPERIENTIAL SESSION
Embark on a transformative journey in this interactive session as we delve into the innate mammalian reflex that resets the nervous system signaling safety after trauma. Through focused lecture and experiential practice, you’ll learn how this therapeutic tremor functions and how to safely access its healing potential. Together, we will unpack dominant cultural messages about bodily control so we can come into a collaborative relationship with the latent power of our bodies.
Kelsey Blackwell
Reclaiming Ritual: Unhooking from Systems of Extraction Requires Orienting Towards Something Greater
A 75-MINUTE EXPERIENTIAL SESSION
Systems of extraction regard our bodies as things to be controlled and wielded to their use. This pressure to be continually “on” shapes our relationship with ourselves and how we navigate our world, often though this productivity impulse conflicts with our true values. Our session will explore an indigenous understanding of ritual that all bodies can relate to as a means for personal healing and confronting the paradigm of machine culture. We’ll engage in ritual together through collective practice and as a means to re-member and reground in our ancestral inheritance. Please bring a rock or some other representation of mineral to our session. The session center's BIPOC bodies however all bodies are invited to attend. Through collective practice, movement and song, we'll re-member and reground in our ancestral inheritance.
Anusha Wijeyakumar
Decolonizing and Reclaiming our Bodies
A 75-MINUTE EXPERIENTIAL SESSION
In this session we will explore what it means to decolonize our minds and our bodies as a form of resistance and joy. We will be recentering indigenous wisdom as medicine for the body and soul. We will unpack ways to release internalized and externalized colonialism that uphold the patriarchy, capitalism and white supremacy in wellness and beyond with a focus on collective liberation.
Nick Walker
Somatics and Creative Spontaneity
A 75 MINUTE EXPERIENTIAL SESSION
Join author and somatic psychology educator Dr. Nick Walker for this discussion and experiential exploration of how our capacity for spontaneous creativity in any medium is intimately entwined with our capacity for spontaneous expression on a bodily level. Please make sure to have paper and some sort of pencils, pens, markers, and/or other writing/drawing implements on hand for the experiential portion of this presentation!
PRICING
These deep-dive training experiences are offered with an exclusive discount for all Embody Lab Members. This means that if you attend regularly, your membership fees could well be covered!
All members will be sent their exclusive discount code via email. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
$67
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$0
FREE
FOR MEMBERS!
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