Powerful practices to help you slow down, listen to your body, and heal
Decolonizing the Body offers somatic practices to help you recognize and unhook from the embodied impacts of systemic oppression. Reconnect with your authentic self by learning to trust and follow the profound wisdom of your own body. By slowing down, cultivating rituals, standing in your boundaries and centering joy, you’re put back in touch with the possibility of freedom—as well as those aspects of yourself that you may have cast aside in an effort to survive. To decolonize the body is to remember your wholeness, and to come home again. Let this book be your guide on this crucial journey.
Silver Nautilus
Book Award Winner 2024
With this empowering guide, you’ll discover:
How bodies are colonized through systems of oppression
Why slowing down is essential for healing
How to create a space for calm
How to cultivate community—starting with yourself
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A vital offering to women of color seeking a somatic approach to community healing. Practical, earthy, and wise…
—Ruth King, author of Mindful of Race
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Kelsey Blackwell’s beautiful book invites us to attend with kindness to our individual and our social bodies as a pathway to insight, healing, and confidence.
—Arawana Hayashi, cocreator of Social Presencing Theater and author of Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move
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A practical guide to freeing ourselves from the boxes that patriarchy, racism and capitalism try to force us into.
—Rinku Sen, social justice strategist and author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
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