About this month's “Somatic Animacy" Practice:

There’s a proverb in Mauritian creole that says, “en langaz pa asè”, which translates as: “one language is not enough.” In modern dominant ways of relating - to our multitudes and to others - many of us have been entrained to prioritise verbal expression over other ways of communicating and knowing. In this way, the wild intelligence of what Joanna Macy refers to as our “co-extensive self,” has been diminished to a dislocated sense of personhood that struggles to comprehend the non-verbal dialects of embodied and relational aliveness.

When tasked with meaningfully engaging with the Great Turning, it begs the questions: What about the animate language of the earth, and our ancestors, that speak through our bodies? Who do we become when we allow the “soft animal of our bodies,” to move the way they want to move, to sing the way they long to sing, to articulate their signature(s)?

In this Somatic Resourcing and Practice, we will make room for these somatic animacies to express. This will be a space for you to reverently explore your innate aliveness through spontaneous movement and non-verbal wanderings, with the support of music, sound, and creative embodied practice.

Let us be nourished and enlivened by the somatic-poetry that wants to move through us (and perhaps, into the world).

This practice is open to all body types, shapes, sizes, ages, and abilities.

Please wear loose comfortable clothes and be in a space where you can move freely whilst standing (or sitting), and where it’s also possible to lie down. Feel free to bring blankets, pillows, cushions and anything else that might bring you more comfort and pleasure.

Alexandre Jodun is an integrative psychotherapist, group facilitator, and ritualist devoted to the art of soul and ancestral remembrance. As a multidisciplinary and eclectic practitioner, his work is in service to the remembering of the essential wisdoms, practices, and initiatory processes for ripening into mature adulthood, such that living culture may emerge to carry future generations.With over a decade of immersion and apprenticeship in animist and mysticism traditions, as well as transpersonal psychotherapies, he walks the fertile edges where ancestral wisdom, psycho-spritiual maturation, and initiatory transformation converge. Carrying a Mauritian-creole, Afro-Asian-European diasporic ancestral heritage, Alexandre’s sacred activism involves being a bridge - between worlds, traditions, and ways of knowing. He has worked with hundreds of people from around the world - including individuals, couples, and groups - through the containers of soul-work, grief-rituals, men’s work, and ceremonial journeys with sacred medicines.He is grateful to call the Sacred Valley of Cusco, Peru, home - where he lives alongside his beloved wife, cocker-spaniel, and cat, surrounded by the sacred Apus of Pitusiray and Sawasiray.You can find out more about Alexandre at www.ahealingbridge.com.