We perceive embodiment and somatic practices as processes toward decolonization.

Through recognizing and questioning the dominant narratives and norms, which infuse the study of anatomy and movement, we begin to decolonize our language and behavior of problematic ideas and influences.

We argue for the relevance and generativity of ‘going under’ in the practice of teaching and learning, which can be an ongoing, radical exercise in unraveling and dismantling those dominant narratives, allowing alternate stories and new potentials to emerge.

For us, being embodied is a given.

We don’t have to get “there”.

We consider the current surge of embodiment industries, which tend to propose an ideal sameness that is displaced externally and elsewhere, an act of colonizing the body.

We believe that the study of embodied practices ought to disturb the clean, hierarchical constructs of what it means to be human.

With our work we wish to underscore a biocentric, deep-time emphasis in the study of somatics, to perceive our human form as entangled, and therefore inseparable from the biosphere and every living aspect within it.

We perceive embodiment as a relational, emergent property, an evolving collective relationship.

Co-embodiment.

With our practice we seek to affirm, witness and nurture not just current, but also future lives and ways of being.