Shortly after completing my final manuscript of Stalking Wild Psoas: Embodying Your Core Intelligence, a book that focuses on rewilding psoas by changing the language of body from object to living process, I came across My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts … [Read more...] about Moving Whiteness: Re-Wilding Our Animal Body
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Tracking Whiteness
Tracking Whiteness “The health of tracking verses the illness of shame” ~ Barri Malek ~ Part One ~ Meeting somatic educator and author Resmaa Menakem and tracking my early years of whiteness (16:53 mins) Part Two ~ Whiteness as un-metabolized ancestral trauma and why the … [Read more...] about Tracking Whiteness
White Bodies, Psoas, & Gesturing Power Over
Power over is an adaptation that can be seen in what I refer to as the “colonized white body.” A specific and intentional social conditioning that shapes the body of whiteness. Over the past several weeks, I have watched the news and read social media quips written by white bodies that I recognize … [Read more...] about White Bodies, Psoas, & Gesturing Power Over
Fluid Core ~ A Way Out of Freezing Fear
Fear is the only instinct that has the power to immobilize us. As an involuntary muscle, psoas as part of the sympathetic neuro-core* is both a primal mover of our core integrity and part of our fear response. When for example, a child is threatened and told to stop crying it may seem like an act … [Read more...] about Fluid Core ~ A Way Out of Freezing Fear
Core Awareness in Action…
Consciousness may be defined as the ability to hold two opposite or paradoxical realizations in the same moment….what might be called radical inclusion. It is this ability to stop identifying with either opposite that evokes a third force called presence. Often experiencing traumatic events … [Read more...] about Core Awareness in Action…
Growing Core Integrity ~ A Global Psoas in a Cultural Body
Photo by Majkl Velneron Unsplash A few years ago my daughter took a university course on Genocide in undergraduate school. The Psychology of Genocide by Steven K Baum was required reading. I had no interest in focusing on this horrific and tragic subject. My thinking at the time was that genocide … [Read more...] about Growing Core Integrity ~ A Global Psoas in a Cultural Body