Open

Meeting What Arrives By Lindasusan Ulrich

Read

Building an Embodied Anti-Racist Practice by Marianne Hunkin

Watch

• 400 years of racial trauma: Then and now (YouTube) (4:45)

• 3 Reasons Why You Need to be Embodied if You Want to Interrupt Racism (YouTube) (1:37) (specifically for white people)

If only BIPOC are present, the group may want to skip the second video that specifically addresses white people.

Do

Try out this guided meditation together:

Ten Percent Happier Podcast, Mindfulness for Working Against Racism (YouTube, minute 8:30-18:13), Rhonda V. Magee

Debrief:

• Embodied anti-racist spirituality asks us to decenter the intellect and instead center our physical and emotional human experience. How did this meditation experience feel for you, both physically and emotionally?
• What are some ways we can bring our whole selves, including our gender, sexuality, dis/abilities, cultural backgrounds and other ways of being which are centered in our bodies into our anti-racism awareness and actions?

Close

We Are Worthy By Elandria Williams

Take Home

• A Therapist Breaks Down How Our Bodies Carry Racial Trauma (YouTube, 12:57)

• Embodied Spiritual Practices Are the Way to Stay Calm, by Holly Lebowitz Rossi

• “My Only Job is to be a Great Ancestor w/ Joel Sommer”, Embodied Spirituality Podcast

• Your Body is Sacred: 3 Ways to Practice Embodied Spirituality, By Aletheia