LIving Lineage Altar

It all started when…

In this living online altar, I would like to honor and acknowledge those who have created the web I now hold, woven through me and into the space I hold with clients, and held together with ancestors, spirits, Land, and other than human kin.

With deep gratitude to:
Hatha yoga training via Jessica Patterson of Root Center for Yoga and Sacred Studies, 2015. (Sri Brahmananda Sarasvati, Swami Nirmalananda, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, T. Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Desikachar, and UG Krishnamurti lineages)

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 - Pat Ogden (with note that Pat describes this lineage as “coming from yoga” without much detail + i am still doing lineage tracing to figure out where the roots of it come from)

generative somatics lineages via Vanissar Tarakali, Alta Starr on somatic shape

Klee Benally on Indigenous Anarchism.

Resmaa Menakem - My Grandmother’s Hands

Queer Nature - queer radical anarchist animism

Lucien Demaris and Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising, specifically through their podcast episodes on the former Healing Justice podcast, which I have listened to multiple times.

Audre Lorde - The Uses of the Erotic

Bronte Velez - The Pleasurable Surrender of White Supremacy episodes on For the Wild podcast.

Tricia Hersey of The Nap Ministry

Bonnie Badenoch - The Heart of Trauma

The disability justice movement, specifically Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective, my mentor and friend Susan Raffo and her blog and book Liberated to the Bone, the book Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Sins Invalid.

Mad Pride: The Icarus Project/The Fireweed Collective, Project LETS, conversations with Hannah Harris-Sutro, as well as members of my Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1 training Mo Bankey, Will Logan, and a few others, who were anti-ableist, anti-sanist, and informed by disability justice. Thabiso Mthinkhulu for his episode on the Depth Work podcast, “Redefining Crazy and the Initiation Process” which changed my life. Stef Kaufman, Ysabel Garcia, Shira Hassan and Interrupt Crim have also played major roles in my learning of mad pride.

Neuroqueerness and neuroqueer lineages - multiple kitchen table conversations about somatics, ancestry, spirit work, the ableism of polyvagal theory, and neuroqueerness in general with Amber Naali Katz, as well as their brilliant substack and writing, Nick Walker, kitchen table conversations with Azrael Avey Nim of Wolfberry Apothecary (who first taught me the term neuroqueer in 2020).

Grief and Yoga workshop with Antonio Sausys in fall 2016.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga training, 1 week, spring 2016.

Countless Black women and femmes via Twitter and IRL, including Mariame Kaba, Feminista Jones, Dayna Lynn Nuckols, and others.

My practitioners Jonathan Brooks, Alpha Gunn, and Vanissar Tarakali, as well as my Sensorimotor trainer Laia Jorba, each of whom made a marked difference on my felt sense of safety and access to my own dignity.