Sacred Rage: A Somatic Reclamation

Service Description

Anger is one of the most toxic energies to be stored in the body, having been linked to long term pain, discomfort, and even cancers by scientific studies, yet it’s so often harbored because it’s met with shame by social norms. Rewrite the story on anger, understanding it through the lens of love, and making rage sacred once again in this somatic-based, decolonized workshop. Feel your way through anger storehouses in the body, and find safe releases in this trauma-informed container. This workshop will start with guided inquiry into our shame narratives and fears around anger, navigate through what it means to find safety around experiencing and expressing our own anger, and slowly work our way into embodying these expressions. Come let your rage be witnessed as sacred. *Attendees are encouraged to move at their own pace and readiness, and will not be required to participate in any exercises they don’t feel holistically ready for.* Week 1: Safety + Shame: Our course will begin by learning how we can create safety in our bodies to explore avenues of rage that might be new, uncomfortable, or even feel unsafe to us. We will learn about how shame affects safety and our expressions of anger. Somatic tools will assist us in creating a foundation we can return to for resourcing as we explore the depths of our anger. Week 2: Central Nervous Context + Care: In this week we will understand anger as an emotion and experience through context and explore how we can care for ourselves and our nervous system, inviting in new flexibility and range through titrated support and compassionate comprehension. Week 3: Unhealthy + Healthy Rage: In this week we will explore versions of unhealthy vs. healthy anger as we see them expressed in our actions or the actions of others. We will create space to release stories and imprints around rage from the past, and discover new narratives and embodiment practices to bring healthy anger into our futures. Week 4: Reverence: In this week we will use somatic guided practices to invite the fire element in the form of rage, discovering where and how we feel appropriate allowing this sacred force to guide us in our lives, and discovering our connection to it's wisdom and protection. We will work to open our channels to communicate with this sacred element to learn how it would like to be restored to balance in our lives, and the world, and invite a decolonized understanding of our emotions and elements to guide our wellbeing.