White-Bodied Folx:
What would it be like to love yourself unconditionally? To know and bring healing to your ancestral lineage? To feel more connected to the global community as a whole?
This eight month journey is not about learning to be a certain way or say the right thing. It is about knowing what we, as white bodied people, carry in our bodies, consciousness, and nervous systems so that we can deconstruct the pieces that perpetuate division and move toward a more integrated state of being, in ourselves and in the world.
Throughout this program, we'll ask the questions: What is whiteness? What is white supremacy? And how do those of us with Euro-American ancestry come to understand the way it shapes our understanding of ourselves, the world, and each other?
We can’t simply think our way out of these systems—racism is about a policing of bodies, and therefore we have to get into our bodies to understand how these systems and logics are often unconsciously flowing through our daily words, belief systems, thoughts, and actions–despite our best intentions.
Together, we will create a secure container for white-bodied people to heal from the cultural trauma of whiteness on a somatic level, and to engage in the messy, often confusing work of coming to racial consciousness.
This program serves as a form of energetic reparations where white-bodied people are actively choosing to educate ourselves and talk about the hard things with each other in a compassionate, judgment-free learning space, without depending on the emotional labor of BIPOC folx to hold space for our own racial healing.
While none of us are responsible for the conditions and belief systems we are born into as children, as we become adults in the world it does become our responsibility to take accountability for behaviors and belief systems that we know to be unjust.
If you are interested in doing the emotional labor necessary to heal the past, with the support of a small, intimate group and under the guidance of compassionate, skilled facilitators then we invite you to join us in this small, intentional cohort to participate in working towards a more loving, equitable future for all to thrive.
This course consists of:
–8 Modules of Online Content consisting of mini-lectures, readings, viewing, and listenings
–8 Modules of Self-Study Prompts
–Once a month Live Integration Sessions for Discussion and Q&A via Zoom from 4:30pm-6pmET on: 10/23, 11/20, 12/18, 1/22, 2/19, 3/12, 4/16, 5/7
All proceeds to support Laughing River Yoga’s Yoga Equity Project and provide BIPOC scholarships through Transformative Consciousness.
THIS PROGRAM IS NOW FULL.
To be added to a waitlist for an upcoming cohort, or to run this program through your organization, please email Trish directly at trish@transformativeconsciousness.com.