Intro to Politicized Somatics
Registration now open for 2026!
In this 2 month (online) immersion, you will be introduced to a series of foundational somatic practices from various lineages, including generative somatics and the Strozzi Institute.
We will combine practice + theory to explore what it means to be a body in a disembodied world.
Participants will be guided through a series of individual, partnered, and group somatic practices, designed to move you beyond the embodied patterns that keep you constricted and towards more life, more connection, and more possibility.
Our embodiments are shaped by the social and cultural contexts we inhabit. Often the habits, tendencies and belief systems that live inside of us are not fully conscious to us. Somatics allows us to become more conscious of the unconscious stories that shape our lives so that we can live in deeper alignment with our values and commitments.
Somatics is more than simply “tuning into the body,” it’s about increasing our sense of aliveness and our potential for transformation through awareness and practice. It’s about creating new muscle memories and unwinding patterns that hold us back from embodying the world we long for.
Shifting cycles, creating new possibilities. Unraveling old stories.
This group is for those new to somatics as well as those who want to continue to deepen their practice. We will work to heal, transform, and move towards the change we long for individually and collectively, while learning about the lineage and theory of the field of somatics.
All sessions are live and will not be recorded.
This work is inherently therapeutic but it is not a “somatic therapy” group or an adequate substitute for therapy.
This group will always center the experience of those on the margins, particularly queer and trans folks, BIPOC, change-makers, and cultural workers navigating the complexities of this political moment. Many of us are experiencing increased repression and fear as tendencies towards authoritarianism escalate. This greatly impacts our bodies and our capacity to organize. Politicized somatics gives us a path and practices to stay centered in our dignity and continue acting from purpose, love, and longing even as the pressures increase around us. Politicized somatics offers us a path towards connection and relational depth in a culture of self-reliance and competition. Politicized somatics supports us to cultivate a felt sense of safety, connection, and dignity (aka power) so that we can effectively work towards material safety and cultural change.
What to expect
individual, partnered, and group practices
work with gesture, movement, breath, and awareness of sensation
practice responding from a grounded, centered place, even under pressure
a deeper sense of what has shaped your patterned reactions, beliefs, and triggers
identify the impacts of trauma, oppression, and social conditioning on your current embodiment
begin to shift the embodied patterns that keep you stuck
access a wider emotional range, more sensation, and more joy
re-establishing an internal sense of safety, dignity, and belonging
Facilitator
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Zoë Poulette
Zoë white trans woman living in the southern swamps of Gainesville, FL on occupied Timucua land. She finds her body most viscerally in the heat and cold springs of North Florida. As a body that has never seemed to fit social norms or expectations, she’s been forced to find her own way and cultivate her path through practice and community.
Professionally, she is a bodyworker and practitioner trained through the Strozzi Institute and generative somatics, and receives ongoing supervision and mentorship through generative somatics, gs trained teachers. She also has an MA in Embodiment Studies from Goddard College. She is an LMT in the state of Florida, and is completing her MFA in poetics.
Registration is now open for 2026
All sessions are
Tuesday 11-12:45pm EST / 8-9:45am PST
On Zoom
