Musings

I recently taught a zoom class for women titled “Race & Body: Dissolving Whiteness in Core Expression.” I have this belief that sensory explorations can dissolve the dissonance and unintended power over gestures that are being underscored in our society and which are often embodied in our … [Read more...] about Coming to Our Senses as White Women

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

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

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

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…