Free Webinar: Embodied Advocacy
Thursday, March 18th, 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. ET/12:30 to 2:00 p.m. PT
How can we create more room in our nervous systems and bodies to feel more settled, grounded, and resourced, even in fast-paced and high-intensity situations in which we support others? How can we fill up our cups before, during, and after long days through embodiment practices? Our bodies hold so much wisdom on how to be present, and to self-heal, but we forget how to listen to them, we get stuck in our heads, and being in our bodies can feel too overwhelming. This session is an invitation to reconnect to your own body wisdom.
What to expect:
Trauma-informed breath, movement, and touch embodiment practices, also including self-massage, myofascial release, and stretching, and suggestions on how to integrate them into daily life
Guided practices will be completely opt-in-and-out the whole time, and will include short tools (less than a minute) as well as longer ones (10 minutes or more).
Offerings are designed to be resources to support the wellbeing of attendees as well as the survivors they support.
*This training offering invites participants to have their cameras on but it is completely optional*
All registrants will receive a recording of this webinar offering. Closed captions will be provided during the webinar. A transcript will be sent to all registrants afterwards.
Presenter
J Sheffield (they/them pronouns) is a white, queer, non-binary licensed massage therapist on Nacotchtank (Anacostan) and Piscataway land (known as Washington, DC), practicing consent-based bodywork with a sliding scale prioritizing QTBIPOC. Currently, they are offering embodiment support through virtual sessions on breathwork, movement, and touch, including teaching self, partner, and friend massage. J’s path to becoming a bodyworker was encouraged by the need they witnessed for community care in grassroots organizing spaces and non-profits. J’s work is influenced by their background in art, as well as their work as a trainer addressing anti-Black racism and white supremacy with fellow white folks, and encouraging organizations to be more transgender affirming. Their bodywork practice offers focused care as it relates to anxiety, depression, trauma, and gender-affirming surgeries and physical changes.
This training was generously supported by The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies.