11am PDT (Los Angeles) / 2pm EDT (New York) / 7pm GMT (London) / 8pm CET (Paris) / 4am AEST (Sydney)
Join us June 13, 2020 at 2pm EDT (New York time) for an intimate conversation with Anouk Shambrook, Nkem Ndefo, Dr. Kesha Fikes and Dr. Rae Johnson. Together they will share their personal stories, intimate perspectives, and lived experiences... all starting from the theme of race and social justice.
The lived experience of the body – that is, our bodily sensations, perceptions and behaviors – is the essential ground of human identity. Neuroscience suggests that even our thinking and the way others interact with us is intrinsically bound up in the body.
This conversation introduces an embodied approach to understanding and transforming patterns of relating to ourselves and others based on inequitable social power dynamics.
We explore the questions:
How are racial dynamics embedded in to the matrix of who we are?
How do we explore these dynamics from a place of agency?
How do these explorations guide us into what we can do next in the social world?
*Normally, our Wisdom Conversations are exclusive for paying Embodied Yoga Members but given the importance of this topic we are opening it up to all, free of charge.
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FACULTY BIOS
Nkem Ndefo
Nkem Ndefo is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. Licensed as a nurse midwife, Nkem also has extensive post-graduate training in complementary health modalities and emotional therapies. She brings an abundance of experience as a clinician, educator, consultant, and community strategist to innovative programs that address stress and trauma and build resilience for individuals, organizations, and communities across sectors, both in her home country (USA) and internationally. Nkem is particularly interested in working alongside people most impacted by violence and marginalization.
Dr. Anouk Shambrook
A research scientist rooted in wisdom teachings and more than 20 years of mind-body training, Dr. Anouk integrates the latest in neuroscience with trauma resilience, meditation and embodied non-duality in her executive and individual coaching practice. As an associate of Trauma Literacy, she facilitates learning trauma-responsive systems to promote healing and equity, making the unconscious conscious. Her training includes Dr. Sidra & Dr. Hal Stone, the creators of the Aware Ego Process and Elaine Miller-Karas, the creator of the Trauma Resiliency Model.
Dr. Kesha Fikes
Dr. Kesha Fikes is a somatic therapist and anthropologist. She attends to the ways that individual and collective traumatic experiences impact everyday lives and communities. Through attuned verbal connection, skilled touch and slow movement she facilitates resolution of somatic symptoms and related behavioral patterns that express unmet needs, as well as current life, intergenerational and socio-historically unintegrated traumatic stress. Her practice is about capacity-building toward relational resilience with self, one's communities and the world.
Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT
Rae Johnson, PhD, RSMT is a scholar/activist and registered somatic movement therapist who currently chairs the Somatic Studies specialization in the Depth Psychology doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. The author of several books – including Elemental Movement, Knowing in our Bones, and Embodied Social Justice – Rae teaches and trains internationally on embodied micro-aggressions, somatic research methods, and the poetic body.