Are you…

• feeling constantly on edge, or like your relationships are feeling especially with the rise of global fascism, and are looking for support?

• feeling very isolated and at a loss of how to create real community that truly sees you?

• curious about somatics, but don’t want a normative way of looking at it that’s going to make you feel like you’re broken and fucked up for, well, having emotions that totally match your current desperation?

• have a non-normative emotional experience but current wellness spaces leave you feeling more broken rather than tended to?

• want a place to process your shit that isn’t just one on one with a practitioner/therapist, and can support you in cultivating relationships that offer the kind of presence and attunement needed to create habitual shifts?

• looking for a practice space that’s grounded in intentionality around power, white supremacy, politicization, clarity, and lineage?

Basic Somatics: The Well might be the space you are seeking.

We are tumbling through a rise of global fascism, and meanwhile, relational support for ourselves + our communities continues to erode. What allows us to face intense pressure and oppression is not avoiding, reactivity, trying to hide, or jumping to fix.

Creating spaces where we are held in all of who we are (including our mad states, our big emotions whether numbness, chaos, or meltdown), where we are truly seen, where we practice together being present and attuned to one another, gives us the bandwidth to respond with fierce strength in connection with one another, the land, spirits, and other than human kin.

We can practice invoking and evoking the kind of spaces that create this deep holding and deep response.

Basic Somatics: The Well is a beginner space to start practicing creating the containers in our lives where this kind of relational connection + fierce heartful response to empire is possible. (and by heartful, I don’t mean soft, passive, or nonviolent. I mean fully connected and fierce as fuck)

Holy wells, in the lineages of Alba (Scotland) and Ireland, are seen as places of healing, replenishment, and power. We can practice with these wells individually and collectively, gathering replenishment together with one another.

If you feel hungry, lonely, overwhelmed, longing to be truly seen - this space is for you.

BASIC SOMATICS: THE WELL is:

• consent-based and moves at the pace of your body. your yes, no, and maybe are always invited.

• trans, madness, and disability centered

• intentionally practicing with clarity around power, white supremacy, politicization, lineage, and how that shows up in both our individual bodies and collective “we”

• explores nervous system care from a mad-centric map and narrative (no polyvagal theory, more expansive practice that allows your entire mad self to be here)

• animist and ancestor based - meaning, we are aware we are the collection of all of our ancestors’ practices both historical and ongoing, lived and blood lineage, and practice together with them, and we practice with other than human kin without hierarchy, including spirits, animals, plants, water, and landforms

• showing up to our relational connections with devoted and committed presence, attunement, and intentionality, set firmly in a framework of how presence, devotion, and commitment can show up non-normatively for disabled and mad folks

• practicing, well, practice - somatics is a practice, healing is not a destination, the process is the goal, we show up with our whole and imperfect selves
  
  

  Beyond Sirius Heart’s facilitation, we will also have 2 dates with Fyerlyon Sortino facilitating her version of generative somatics centering practice, as well as practiced work from Decolonized Nonviolence!
  

In Basic Somatics: The Well, we approach somatic practice with devotion, commitment, and intention. Devotion, commitment, and intention are what keep us tied to our practice. It’s the juice that supports us staying steady and continuing, that keeps us consistent.

Somatic practice requires our consistency as we approach being with our habitual patterns and allowing them to unwind towards more supportive ways of being in the world. Devotion, commitment, and intention are what give the juice to that consistency, instead of a dead, stagnant, or dogged commitment that usually fizzles out.

We often devote ourselves or commit ourselves to something beyond us (like radical connection, collective liberation, a well ;) etc); this commitment to what is beyond ourselves allows us to stay with the practice.

We also practice the practice of being present and attuned to one another - deep listening, to what is said and unsaid in our own bodies and in those we practice with. Listening not only deeply to what is verbally stated, but to what our bodies bring in to the space. You are invited to show up with this kind of attuned attention.

Both of these practices are prerequisites for The Well, not in a capitalistic work yourself to the bone, deny your disability/madness sense - but in a way to explore what kind of practice will allow your mad and disabled body to continue to be present and attuned to oneself and one another… including presence to the ways that we check out, dissociate, and are unable to be present.

Presence not as “forced to be there at all times” - presence as attending what the actual experience is from moment to moment.

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Cost

Basic Somatics: The Well is offered at 3 different payment tiers, with 1-2 sliding scale slots available, and one at very low scholarship for members of the Global South.

Payments may be made at one time or there are a wide variety of payment plans available.

Tier 1:

$1500+ USD ($300USD monthly)
for folks who have access to vested funds, own a home, vacation easily, have little to no debt.

Tier 2:

$1200 USD ($240USD monthly)
for folks who have some debt, have stable income with a little extra, vacation once a year or so, sometimes have difficulty with basic needs but not consistently.

Tier 3:

$800 USD ($160USD monthly)
for folks who have limited access to stable income, increased debt, increased stress about ability to access basic needs.

Please note: Choosing at the highest scale you possibly can, with intentionality towards what I am offering + what feels like true exchange for you, allows space for more people to join. I am able to open up more sliding scale and scholarship spots directly in response to the level you are able to pay. If you need more guidance, please see this page. Thank you for choosing the most equitable option for all of us to access communal support!

Need-Based Sliding Scale

1-2 slots at $200 USD ($40/mo). QTBIPOC folks and working class or disabled trans folks only, no exceptions.

1 additional slot at very low scholarship to be discussed for members of the Global South (please reach out to siriusheart@proton.me for details and to determine what amount would work for you).

If you would like to sponsor a slot for someone else, you are strongly invited to! Please reach out to siriusheart@proton.me for sponsoring.