I recently co-facilitated a workshop for folks working in racial justice with my colleague Sonali Sangeeta Balajee. It was a day of the intersections of somatics and social justice, a day of exploring the truths shared between the individual body and the social body. We focused on restoring and rehydrating our purpose and presence and used this powem by Galway Kinnell to guide us. We used the poem to talk about re-teaching — not teaching but RE-teaching, — reminding us that loveliness is innate, brilliance is innate, equity is innate. As a multi-racial, multi-positional team, Sonali and I talked about the fact that in both the individual body and the social body, IT IS OUR NATURE TO BE FREE, we talked about liberation as the dismantling of what interferes with our freedom.

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