somatics & liberation
somatics
Somatic practices come from many cultural lineages—ancient, sacred, and often commodified. While forms like yoga and qigong are widely known, many others were disrupted or erased through colonization.
The Greek sōma refers to the whole body. In Sanskrit, soma names a ritual elixir—a substance consumed to access sacred wisdom.
I understand somatics as extending beyond mind–body–spirit to include environment and ecology:
from a cell, to an individual body (human, plant, stone, river), to bioregions and the collective body of Earth.
This work invites people to return to their bodies as sites of wisdom, rather than sites of inadequacy—and to tend relationship rather than dominate or numb.
liberation
Liberation—from what?
From isolation.
From systems that seek to enslave us physically, mentally, and spiritually.
Liberation to feel fully alive.
To grieve.
To love.
To be witnessed—or to hide.
To move—or to be still.
To be imperfect.
To dream and imagine.
This work does not force liberation.
It makes space for it.