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Systemic Stress: The Weaponization of Health
An aggressive and particularly insidious tool of an oppressive system is to manipulate the mental/emotional and cellular health of the people they intend to control through a variety of violent social, political, and environmental tactics. All of this to ensure heightened and prolonged states of chronic stress and fear, which lead to many of the physical-mental diseases that have destroyed our nervous systems, weakened our immune systems, placed us in a state of hyper- reaction, and denied us access to the inherent healing wisdom our bodies possess.
Ground. Center. Align
Why
because of the need to Love, to understand it as action;
an interdependent and relational entity
because a living practice must evolve in proximity to Love
to honor the sacrifices and unrelenting
imaginations of grandmothers, grandfathers;
all before me that animate my living experience
a responsibility to know myself
heal myself
keep learning, so I can teach in spaces where called,
and practice as life’s work of art
an enduring Love for the marginalized and vulnerable- my kin, exists within;
a shared vision for our way forward.
What
" instead of thinking about resilience as the way we cope after trauma, we should think of it as our birthright, how we came into this world. To be resilient is to be engaged, creative, adaptive, and relational. It's to remember that you are part of this world. It is the opposite of isolation and habitual protection."
- Prentis Hemphill, writer, embodiment teacher, conflict facilitator
The long work for liberation demands that we have the ability to sustain our collective wholeness, continually recharge, and find within ourselves the information we need to make the best decision in the moment. This practice is built for individuals and groups, for leadership teams, and whole organizations. The benefits of Taiji for the individual and collective body and mind are innumerable, and I see a future where it ( and embodied practices like it) is an accessible and valued part of our social movements for change and power building.Who
Any body (org or individual) interested in:
+Changing their relationship to self-care ( which likely involves redefining it)
+Finding healing practices that can be accessed in real time and most critically when the movement demands urgency
+ Building care practices into their personal and organizational calendars and lives
+Finding ways to soften and move away from the chronic states of hyper-reactivity and fear instilled in us and our work
+Taiji - as embodied practice of rest, balance, strength, knowing oneself
+Art, the creative process, and all its many manifestations!
