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

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, Susan Raffo, the book Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha, Sins Invalid.

Mad Pride centered mental health: The Icarus Project/The Fireweed Collective, 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 and informed by disability justice.

Neuroqueerness and neuroqueer lineages - Nick Walker, as well as conversations with Azrael Avey Nim, Amber Naali Katz.

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.