We are moving towards spring as we begin March. With the seeds planted of our body as a safe home for ourselves to be, we now explore strength, rebuilding, finding our power not out of resistance but instead from being rooted in our own knowing. This month's practices will bring in heat, sweat, and the liveliness that is spring all in a sense of honoring where your body would like to go and move. Ready? Let's dive in. JOIN HERE!
*Please note on the schedule, all times are pst.
TIERS
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*Enthusiasts $5/month access weekly inspirations, book club, and my gratitude for your support.
*Students $25/month access class recordings, book club, and inspirations plus the library of past classes with more to come.
*Cultural Studies $40/month access monthly workshop, special access to past lecture series with new edited material to come, book club, and inspirations.
*Trainees $100/month access all classes, workshops, and recordings plus inspirations and check ins.
CLASSES
We have two weekly classes this month with a focus on building strength and grounded power.
*Pilates: building strength will be a practice focusing on core, breath, and how we support our joints and movement with heat. Get ready to sweat and also to explore what strength feels like your body today.
*Raqs Sharqi: Percussive Power will be a dance practice focusing on percussive technique and where we can initiate our movements for ease, strength, and power. Plus drum solo fun!
WORKSHOP
Our March workshop is on somatic healing. This workshop will be a movement and exploration of waking up body sensations, shifting for self regulation, and building healing through our own bodies. This will be available for all bodies and will be deliciously fun. Because joy is resilient
Thursday 3/21 7:45-9pm pst
BOOKCLUB
This month's bookclub is "Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex" edited by Justice Roe Williams, Roc Rochon and Lawrence Koval. A little bit about this amazing book: "Perspectives from QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, bodyworkers, and coaches on reimagining fitness for all bodies. Fit is subjective. Who our society designates as fit–and who gets to be fit in our society–is predefined by the coaches, gyms, and systems at large that uphold and reproduce the Fitness Industrial Complex for their own structural and material gain.
The Fitness Industrial Complex uplifts some bodies while denigrating others. Bodies that are Black, Brown, queer, trans, poor, fat, and disabled–bodies that don’t conform, that resist and disrupt–are excluded from being “fit.” Through the stories and experiences of activist trainers, coaches, and bodyworkers of diverse identities and experiences, this anthology interrogates:
The ideas and beliefs we’ve internalized about health, fitness, and our own and others’ bodies
How to deconstruct and re-envision fitness as a practice for all bodies
The fitness industry’s role in upholding and reinforcing oppression
Exclusivity, unsafety, and harm in mainstream fitness spaces
How to empower ourselves and our communities to push back against the FIC
Thursday 3/28 7:45-9pm pst. Our bookclub is open to all subscribers. I hope you will join me in reading and discussing this revolutionary and much needed book.
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