All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.
— Octavia butler, The Parable of the Sower
Within the quietude of depth slowing, sensing into primally known rhythms and attuning to the abundant wisdom of the bodymind and all that flows within - the offerings here serve as tributaries into the larger ocean of co-sensed and shaped communal spaces firmly rooted within deep ecological anti-oppressive, liberatory praxis.
A commitment to;
In founding ENSOU Expressive Arts 10years ago, the supportive spaces it offered began in service of encouraging all forms of emotionally, creatively embodied expression. Bringing opportunities of communing in connection and play within verbal and non-verbal channels; of instinctual and intentional movement, stillness, sound/noise, song, sharing, rhythm, music, mark making, moulded clay, sculpting, writing, dance - for discovery and expression of self, in dignity and mutual connection.
These spaces continue in many forms today rooted in liberation praxis, enriched and influenced by deeply respected peers, teachers, elders and ancestors within radical love and liberatory lineages.
They exist as reclamation spaces, in resistance to and in personal and collective liberation from neo-colonial, imperialist, cis-heteronormative, neurotypical, ablesit, dominant europatriarchal ways of knowing which permeate the personal, relational, structural and transpersonal fabric of shared collective spaces, organisations, fields of practice and connection. You are warmly welcomed into alchemising the inner and outer waters of change.
A commitment to;
- inner and outer liberation; may all beings become free as quickly as possible
- unapologetic, authentic, elemental centred wholeness, loving presence, awareness, right relationship, and reciprocity
- interconnected and relational healing across life affirming contexts and dimensions
- alchemising the waters of white supremacy within which we swim and which moves through us
- Tending the grief and joy that emerges within individual-collective relational liberation and flourishing as it moves through and between us.
- Connecting with the deep ancestral roots of our human and more-than-human kin whose journeys have allowed us to be here now and who guide our future paths.
In founding ENSOU Expressive Arts 10years ago, the supportive spaces it offered began in service of encouraging all forms of emotionally, creatively embodied expression. Bringing opportunities of communing in connection and play within verbal and non-verbal channels; of instinctual and intentional movement, stillness, sound/noise, song, sharing, rhythm, music, mark making, moulded clay, sculpting, writing, dance - for discovery and expression of self, in dignity and mutual connection.
These spaces continue in many forms today rooted in liberation praxis, enriched and influenced by deeply respected peers, teachers, elders and ancestors within radical love and liberatory lineages.
They exist as reclamation spaces, in resistance to and in personal and collective liberation from neo-colonial, imperialist, cis-heteronormative, neurotypical, ablesit, dominant europatriarchal ways of knowing which permeate the personal, relational, structural and transpersonal fabric of shared collective spaces, organisations, fields of practice and connection. You are warmly welcomed into alchemising the inner and outer waters of change.
“white supremacy is not a shark; it is the water,”
Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre
Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre
Person & Praxis
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Emmalou | they • she, practices active commitment to anti-oppressive, expansively humane and somatically trauma informed political embodied reclamation; centring somatic, systemic, spiritual abolitionism, embodied social justice and accountability mapping as channels towards liberatory, transformative justice and emergent growth, personally, relationally, and in service to community culture building. |
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The principles within these lineages take shape within their therapeutic world work in the following ways;
- Self selecting scale fees based on social location, access to education, opportunity and cultural capital; including solidarity economy and 'pro-bono' sessions
- Alternative non-capital sharing exchanges based outside of a traditional capitalist labour structure
- Redistribution of earnings recognising reparative economic justice and the impacts of racial capitalism
- Re-centring, re-learning and reclaiming intuition, dreams, acknowledgements, transparency informing relational coordinates of care, learning from and uplifting indigenous teachers and wisdom cultures of all lands
- Honouring the pace and rhythm of the myriad body systems which make up our wholeness, with a centring of disability justice and particular appreciation to the gifts of Sins Invalid, alongside Tricia Hersey and practices of resisting grind culture
- Forming value aligned collective action networks committed to hospicing whiteness and it's pervasive patterns which perpetuate colonial logics and imperialist ideologies | WACAN.org.uk
Honouring inspirational peers, teachers, elders, ancestors |
Natalie & Carl Rogers | Amy & Arnold Mindell | Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen | Resmaa Menakem | Mia Mingus | Pat McCabe | Rev. angel Kyodo williams | Sara King | Kesha Fikes | Kai Cheng Tom | Suhaimah Manzoor-Khan | Seena Frost | Alixa Garcia | Nkem Ndefo | Camille Sapara Barton | Staci Haines | Richard Strozzi-Heckler | Alta Starr | Bayo Akomolafe | Prentis Hemphil | Karine Bell | Weena Pauly-Tarr | Oceana Sawyer | Leticia Nieto | Akilah Richards | Tricia Heresey | Charlotte James | Sara Reid | Hanifa Nayo Washington | Linda Hartley | Plant, animal & ecological process flow teachers
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