Embodied Activism
Body-based skills to support sustainable engagement
Angelina Joon
Gravity and Grace Movement
Portland, Oregon, USA
Movement for the movement! This workshop will teach accessible mind/heart/body/spirit skills for connection to self, each other and the land to support you and your communities while continuing to work for racial & social justice.
Session Description
Engagement in transformational & social change work can often be lonely or lead to burnout, especially for those of us who hold and/or support marginalized identities and histories. Witnessing and resisting injustice impacts our individual & collective nervous systems, as well as our community ecosystems. AND, our presence and steadfastness is essential right now.
For the long haul work, nurturing and returning to a grounded center is a critical skill. We can foster this return to center and build sustainable endurance by practicing skillful attention, connection and relationship to our bodies, each other, and the natural world around us.
In this workshop, you’ll learn accessible skills and remember immediate resources for building strength, stamina, and spirit. There will be light stretching and movement to regulate and co-regulate your nervous system and address overwhelm, a meditation for connecting to the land, as well as vision-building, breathing, playing and rest practices.
This invitational space is designed for all ages, all bodies and anyone who wants to engage, and stay engaged, in actions for a more just world.
Presenter Bio
Angelina Joon is a trauma-informed movement teacher & embodiment educator, certified in Pilates, Yoga and Functional Movement. She has 23+ years of experience working with individuals, groups and non-profits and has been volunteering in community health and social justice organizations since she was a teen. She is the owner and founder of Gravity & Grace Movement Studio in Portland, Oregon.
Angelina has extensive experience working with injuries, anxiety/depression, burnout and PTSD, and specializes in nervous system regulation & co-regulation, chronic pain management and endurance for social change work. Her focus is embodied presence and creating spaces for exploration, healing, strengthening, and justice while centering community, accountability and ceremony.
Angelina is a white Latina, of Mexican (Indigenous North American of Mexican & Apache) and Sicilian (of immigrants through Ellis Island) descent. She straddles these realities, embracing her Brown identity culture and her responsibility as a white-bodied person. Her spiritual practice is rooted in Indigenous knowledge and ceremony, as she has been invited and initiated into ongoing study with a Diné (Navajo) chief and medicine man.
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