Description
Embodiment Circle: Tending to Grief and Anger in Embodied Ways
In this post-inauguration tending circle, we will focus on connecting with and tending to our bodies and everything they are holding in this time of uncertainty and overwhelm. Many of us are feeling deep grief, anger, and fear in response to the current political situation in the US and the world, and these emotions are not just in our minds – they live in our bodies. This circle offers a space to honour and process these emotions through body-based practices.
For those who have not grown up feeling safe and supported in expressing grief and anger, it can be difficult to know how to access these emotions in adulthood. If grief and anger were dismissed, punished, or ignored in childhood, they often remain locked in the body, showing up as tension, anxiety, numbness, or exhaustion. In times of political and social upheaval, these old patterns can be re-activated, making it even harder to process what is happening in the world around us. Embodiment offers a way to be with these emotions in a supportive, resourced way – one that allows for movement, expression, and healing.
This circle is centered on shifting our focus away from overthinking and analysis and into felt experience. Through slow and simple guided embodiment and gentle movement practices, we will explore how to tap into, honour, witness, and tend to our grief and anger in embodied ways. There will also be space for sharing and witnessing, held in a gentle, trauma-informed container.
Exploring embodiment: Listening to what our bodies are holding
Our bodies hold the imprints of our past – memories, emotions, and unspoken truths that shape how we experience the present. When faced with political and social turmoil, we may feel an overwhelming surge of grief, anger, or fear that is not only about today but also tied to what we have carried for years. Through guided movement and embodiment practices, we will explore how to listen to these bodily imprints with curiosity and care, allowing what has been held beneath the surface to emerge. This is not about fixing or analyzing, but about creating space for what our bodies are telling us – learning to move with it rather than resist it.
Embodiment is the practice of coming home to ourselves, noticing how emotions show up physically, and allowing space for them to be felt and expressed. Together, we will cultivate a deeper relationship with our bodies, inviting in intuition, presence, and a sense of grounding amid uncertainty.
Who is this circle for?
This circle is for those who know and sense that their emotions live in their bodies, but are unsure how to access or tend to them. If you feel disconnected, tense, or overwhelmed by the weight of both personal and collective grief and anger, this space is here to support you.
Whether you are new to embodiment or have explored somatic practices before, this circle offers a gentle, compassionate space to reconnect with your body’s wisdom and what it has been holding – perhaps for a very long time.
This circle is for you if you:
- Long to feel more at home in your body amid emotional overwhelm
- Struggle to name or express grief and anger, yet feel their presence within
- Want to learn how to process emotions in body-based, supportive ways
- Are curious about how embodiment can help in times of uncertainty
This space is for you. Together, we will move slowly, without rush or expectation – only an invitation to be present, to witness, and to be witnessed with care and confidentiality.
Come as you are. Let your body lead.
Practical Details:
- When: February 23 at 11am-12.30pm Pacific Time / 8pm-9.30pm Central European Time
- Where: Online via Zoom
- Last day to register: February 22
- No prior embodiment or movement experience is needed.
- The circle is unrecorded.
