Closer to Home series (BIPOC)

If you want to feel more steady & guided in your offerings to the collective, as we navigate uncertain terrain...

Join dia for a 3-part meander towards re-enchantment & remembering through shared ritual, collective guided embodiment practice, self-paced reflection and sharing circles. This cohort is for people who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Colour).

Together, we'll explore Queering Lineage, Ancestral Wisdom, and Devotion in Practice. You'll leave with expansive ways of sensing into what resources & guides you, and with ideas for portals, ritual & somatic practice that feel meaningful to you and rooted in your unique heritage or mixed heritages.

When

This BIPOC series includes 3 live workshops. To benefit from the live community setting and foster connection within the group, I ask that you aim to attend at least 1 of the live Zoom sessions, and to watch the recording if you can't attend a session live:

Week 1: Queering Lineage

Wednesday 11th February, 6.30pm - 8.30pm GMT

Week 2: Ancestral Wisdom

Wednesday 18th February, 6.30pm - 8.30pm GMT

Week 3: Devotion in Practice

Wednesday 25th February, 6.30pm - 8.30pm GMT

What to expect

Invitations into somatic practice, sensing, sharing (with voice or in chat), movement, dance, visualisation, play, and reflection as a group. Shared opening & closing rituals. Music. Short break halfway through.

What’s included

• Live participation in 3 x 2 hour workshops on Zoom
• Workshop recordings (video, audio & transcript)
• 'Closer to Home' journal pdf ~ resources, journal prompts & practices that complement this workshop, so you can continue to reflect & explore at your own pace
• 3 x 'Crafting A Practice' recordings, sharing personal insights of how I've incorporated these explorations and challenges around lineage, ancestors & devotion into my own life as embodied practices & rituals
• Invitation to be in monthly community somatic practice, where you can continue to find resonance & connection as you integrate your learnings

Before the first workshop, you will be emailed the Zoom link and 'Closer to Home' journal. Each workshop recording will be sent to you within 48 hours of the session.

Introduction to how embodiment practice can support us to move into deeper ways of sensing, feeling rooted and experiencing connection within a lineage and sense of purpose that queers the experience of space and time.

Where have you learned - from our natural world / teachers of all kinds / loved ones / art in all its forms / beings you know or admire, who are living or have passed - that has influenced the ways you show up in the world?

What do you not yet know, what do you feel curious about?

What does queerness have to tell you about your lineage?

Exploring the different ways we might access an expansive kind of ancestral wisdom, through memory, felt sensing, and imagination.

How might we queer and expand our understanding of ancestors, beyond blood relatives, to include kin across unknowns?

What does resonance feel like in your bodymind?

How might ancestral wisdom resource us to feel purposeful as we move through the world?

 

Taking the first steps towards crafting practices that are meaningful to you, rooted in your unique relationship to your heritage.

What noticings have emerged from your explorations of your lineages and ancestral wisdom?

How might we create the conditions, through intentional practice, to notice and respond to different ways of knowing and sensing?

What will support you to feel ease, enchantment and devotion to these emerging practices?

The roots of 'Closer to Home'

This workshop series evolved from my own explorations around diaspora, place, displacement and home over the past few years. As a queer person of mixed English - Sudanese - Syrian - Scottish heritage, who has never been to Sudan or Syria, my imagination and felt sense has been a portal to ancestral connection in a way that has surprised, supported, and at times unnerved me. Crafting devotional practices informed by self-trust in my own experiences and lineages, has felt like opening up to the gifts that are ours to receive... bringing me, somehow, closer to home.

This offering is particularly inspired by my experiences with politicised somatics, Black feminism, rhizomes, Coniston Water, grassroots community centres, calendula petals, corner shops, mustard plant seed pods, song as portal, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, hibiscus, the fells and tarns of The Lake District, stories from Khartoum, and ancestral wisdom.

Sliding Scale Payment Options 

(Root / Care / Sustaining)

Root: £55, for those who have lower income

Care: 2 free spaces, for people who identify as trans and would not be able to attend without this option

Sustaining: £88, for those who have mid-higher income ~ this tier makes the free spaces possible

Gathering Agreements

By gathering together in a liminal workshop space, we get to practice co-creating the world we're envisioning! By participating, we agree to practice:

- offering & receiving invitation without expectation

- being in choice, being with what is here now & attending to our needs

- going gently, to honour our individual capacity & our edges

- experimentation, away from from ideas of what's right

- embodied care & respect within an intersectional queer BIPOC space

Want to come along? Choose your ticket!

If you're interested in this series and are not BIPOC, please check out my other offerings which are open to all, or click here to join the newsletter if you'd like to be notified when the open-to-all Closer to Home cohort runs again.

Need to know anything else before you book? Drop me an email:

info@everydaywrites.com