Seeing Somatically
Embodied Philosophy + Somatic Practice
A playful and practical series for bodyworkers, care-workers, and cultural workers of all kinds to sharpen skills of perception and intuition.
What does the body reveal? How does it speak?
What does the collective body know about the times we are living in?
Through a series of readings, practices, and playful prompts, we will explore critical theories of embodiment. We will deepen our skills of perception and widen our ways of seeing.
We will trace the connections between embodied philosophy and somatic theory to explore how emotionality works as a social phenomenon that literally shapes our bodies at both the individual and social level.
I’m love philosophy. Like bell hooks, “I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend—to grasp what was happening around and within me… I saw in theory a location for healing.”
As I’ve studied phenomenology, affect theory, and other forms of embodied philosophy over the years- while also studying somatics- I’m always amazed by how much they overlap. These worlds that rarely talk to each other.
We will dig through the thoughts of Sara Ahmed, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, and many more to help us understand how bodies become shapes, how tendencies become conditioned, and what our fascial patterns reveal about what’s possible and where we’re stuck... But we won’t get stuck in theory; we will bring it all into practice, bring it all to life, and integrate this knowledge into how we can better understand ourselves, our clients, our comrades, and the world at large.
2 Saturdays
September 12th & 26th
12pm-3 ET
Live online with recording available. There will be pre-readings, and homework in between sessions.
Sliding scale $200-300
You will have life-long access to the recording.
Facilitator
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Zoë Poulette
Zoë is a 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 found her way, her community, and her magic to cultivate a path forward through rigorous and creative embodied practice.
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 has an MA in Embodiment Studies, an MFA in Poetics, and is a practicing LMT. Her work is about tracing the connections between philosophy, poetics, embodiment, and social change.