Mini Course: Foundations of Somatic and Mindful Awareness
A decolonized approach to embodiment and healing
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Welcome & Orientation
This opening chapter invites you to arrive softly. Through grounding breath and gentle guidance, you’ll be introduced to somatic and mindful awareness as practices of care rather than control. Together, we’ll explore what it means to create a personal learning container, where all of you, your rest, fidgeting, stillness, or movement, is welcome.
This opening chapter invites you to arrive softly. Through grounding breath and gentle guidance, you’ll be introduced to somatic and mindful awareness as practices of care rather than control. Together, we’ll explore what it means to create a personal learning container, where all of you, your rest, fidgeting, stillness, or movement, is welcome.
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Why This Work Matters
In this chapter, we explore why somatic and mindful awareness is more than a personal practice; it’s collective, ancestral, and deeply political. We’ll examine how colonization and capitalism disrupted the body-mind connection through displacement, assimilation, and extraction, leaving lasting patterns of disembodiment.
In this chapter, we explore why somatic and mindful awareness is more than a personal practice; it’s collective, ancestral, and deeply political. We’ll examine how colonization and capitalism disrupted the body-mind connection through displacement, assimilation, and extraction, leaving lasting patterns of disembodiment.
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Reclaiming Interoception
Here, we return to a sense often overlooked in the West but central to many ancestral traditions: interoception, the ability to feel and respond to internal body signals. You’ll learn how interoception works, sensing, interpreting, and integrating bodily messages, and why reclaiming this capacity is key to healing and sovereignty.
Here, we return to a sense often overlooked in the West but central to many ancestral traditions: interoception, the ability to feel and respond to internal body signals. You’ll learn how interoception works, sensing, interpreting, and integrating bodily messages, and why reclaiming this capacity is key to healing and sovereignty.
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