For bodyworkers, facilitators & space holders*
who are longing for community, guidance and structure
to learn more about anti-racism and decoloniality as living practices
and make their first steps towards weaving social justice
into the spaces they offer & hold.
* in this invitation, I speak to those offering spaces of somatic exploration, spiritual transformation or healing, being in shape of 1:1 sessions like coaches, therapists or bodyworkers or also in group contexts like movement classes, dance events, ceremonial spaces, music circles, organisational consultations or anything else that you intuitively connect to the term “space holding”.
Please note that the lab is limited to 27 participants + team
The group will be predominantly white, also open to people who may be mixed race or mixed heritage and yet experience white privilege in their daily lives. (BIPoC & Bodies of Culture please visit WITH ALL of life)
Please apply for a spot willing to invest not only your money* but also at least 3 hours weekly for the live calls, extra materials & group reflections.
* This offering will cycle back 15% of earnings to finance offerings on empowerment and somatic experience for people who experience racism and live on the margins.
DATES of the LIVE CALLS
always 18:30 – 20:30h CET, via zoom
19.03 | 26.03 | 02.04 | 09.04 | 23.04 | 07.05 | 21.05 | 04.06
Photo Credit: Ana Mendieta
We will journey together for 11 weeks, having a 2-hour call every week for the first four sessions of introduction and then deepening into a live call every two weeks until beginning of June.
During the deepening period, you will receive further material to fully engage with and deepen in reflection & practice in between the live calls.
I will offer a space for information to flow, not only in form of words and theories, but also where somatic experience supports the learning and where my guidance can be a living example of practicing decolonial space-holding.
Some of the methods we will practice are: guided movement and meditation, transrational input, journaling, ritual work. The further material includes guided somatic practices, reading material and story-telling.
My focus of work is not to show “quick fixes” on how to “do it right”, but rather offer a space to expand in humbleness and curiosity, in order to perceive and acknowledge the fear and the separation our current paradigm is built upon. From this place of deeper recognition, we can come back into relationship with ALL of life and discover decoloniality as practice and antidote for our lives and (co)creations.
This online laboratory is dreamt and woven, based on my personal experience as a facilitator of afro-indigenous and european decent holding spaces around transformation, sexuality and artistic expression, focused on decolonial practices and eco-social transformation through embodiment.
I am offering this lab, committed to the need of awareness around how strongly coloniality lives in the way(s) that many spiritual and somatic practices are taught and shared in the west, specially within predominantly white circles.
Many of these ways, and almost always unintentionally, perpetuate separation and often cause deep harm, especially to non-white participants in “conscious” spaces.
Over my past nine years of space-holding, I’ve grown in a deeper knowing that the ability to notice systems of oppression is essential to (co)creating true transformational spaces that are serving ALL of life.
Here you can read about the living lineage of the wisdom I share.
Working at the intersections of embodiment, spirituality and social justice, you will be guided to lovingly expand in the discomfort and softly move through the resistance to meet the imprint of internalised white supremacy (e.g. constant sense of urgency, fear of open conflict, or hyper individualism) in the body and in the way you might create, invite and hold spaces.
The journey is being offered online via zoom. The work done is experiential, somatic and will require your live presence. We will record the sessions, but I encourage you to attend live to go through the full experience.
In Fall 2025 (17.-19.10) there will be an in-person Gathering for space-holders
who’ve gone through the ALL of life LAB. We will come together in the flesh to deepen in relevant inquires and questions around the embodiment of decoloniality, specifically within the spaces we co-create and facilitate.
I ask BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color)& Bodies of Culture who are interested in this offering to join the upcoming WITH ALL of life lab specifically thought for facilitators and space holders of the Global Majority.
For white passing bodies of culture, I acknowledge that a strategy of white supremacy is to erase culture and dilute meaning. I ask that people who profit from white privilege and have a lived experience of being treated as white, please attend the group for white bodies. For those who are white passing and experience racism in their daily lives, I invite you to join the WITH ALL of life group, aware that your experience as a racialised body will be at the center and not your proximity to whiteness.
“I feel this gathering changed something in me on a cellular level. Not just another ‘input’, but an experience that gives me a new perspective on life (…) This topic was not a priority before because i didn’t realise how much I am part of it in both directions; doing harm, as well as feeling harm. (…) My sensors for the signs of white supremacy culture are on; i notice them in me and around me and sometimes i feel the possibility to say ‘no thank you, i will choose something else’. ”
– Nora Ora
“I don’t say SHOULD often, but: I DEEPLY BELIEVE ALL FACILITATORS, HEALERS & EXPERIENCE WEAVERS SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE: especially if you’re here for real inner-outer transformation & healing.
Dana Mara is one of the most graceful & powerful teachers I know in the realms of de-colonial & anti-racism work: holding a sacred space & real practice in learning and UN-learning.
It’s time, people! “
“I feel what we are learning together is to re-member a relational way of life. Dana has a complex and nuanced transmission of decoloniality, where ethics are a matter of the heart and of connection. Her open and welcoming way of facilitating this work made it easily accessible, even where we touched intense topics. It felt like a re-weaving of threads of connection I longed for but had few words for. I feel profoundly grateful for this teaching. As a white man, my heart was deeply touched by the feeling of relational living I felt through this course. I no longer felt like a prisoner of the individualistic culture I live in. I am left feeling true hope for the healing and redeeming of white culture, and much more clear about my part in that. Thank you, Dana.”
“I am left with a kind of feeling of initiation (…) I was touched by the depth that opened up within this group, for the openness and willingness and how that allowed transformational steps to happen (…) how this topics (un)consciously influences our lives; how we navigate our relationships, our work, our decisions. To have a group that supports each other in that, work on dismantling toxic structures, feels accurate to the times we’re moving in and maybe moving ahead…
” Thank you so much Dana. Your work moved me deeply in my understanding of being in the world as a human being, as a white person and inspired me in many ways. I also feel in an (un-)learning process since then on different layers. I can sense my system is digesting, grieving, integrating in my relationships, my understanding of time, of community and facilitating spaces.”
– Katze Greeven