With all the recent news around land defence, indigenous sovereignty and reconciliation, I’ve had a lot of clients these past weeks processing what it means to show up in solidarity/accountability and how that can move us forward towards change - whether in community, activism, allyship or healing harms from all the “isms”.

A big theme coming up is that we are entering/creating uncharted spaces and opportunities for healing in transformative ways, and with that leaving behind much of the ways we have been relating and organizing. Making space for new ways that prioritize safety, accountability and change. When I think about it somatically, I think our bodies can lead the way on this.

Without having collective embodied experiences of what this can look and feel like, we can turn inwards as a place of reference. How can we first individually hold a space within ourselves that feels grounded, safe, accountable and open to compassionate change? And how can we use our internal somatic experience as an anchor or guide as we enter these uncharted spaces?

As body workers we can offer space to explore this. As a gentle + safe space for relaxing or for facilitating deeper releases of traumatic holding patterns. The more somatic memories we can create for ourselves around safety, accountability and healing the more we can offer to our communities, liberation spaces and movements.