For bodyworkers, facilitators & space dreamers
who are longing for guidance, structure and
an intentional space in community to meet
anti-racism and decoloniality
as living practices.
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 eight years of space-holding, I’ve grown in a deep knowing that the ability to notice the systems of oppression that impact our being is essential to (co)creating true transformational spaces that are serving ALL of life.
I will offer a space for information to flow, not only in form of words and theories, but also where somatic experiencing supports the knowledge to meet each person in their heart, body and soul.
Some of the methods we will practice are:
– guided movement and meditation
– transrational input
– journaling
– story-telling
– ritual work
Some of the themes that we will explore are:
– Foundations of Embodied Social Justice
– White Supremacy Culture
– Decolonial Spirituality
– Neo-shamanism & Cultural Appropriation
– Allyship, Accountability & Space Holding
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, hyper individualism or felt superiority) in the body and in the way we 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.
The lab is limited to 20 participants and the group will be predominantly white.
I ask BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), Bodies of Culture or Folks of the Global Majority who are interested to join to have this in mind and to have a short 1:1 talk with me to sense if this space would be able to offer you what you are needing at the moment.
* This course will cycle back 15% of earnings to finance offerings on empowerment and somatic experience for people who experience racism and live on the margins.
Please note that the lab is limited to 20 participants + team.
DATES
always 18:30 – 20:00h CET, via zoom
05.11 | 12.11 | 19.11 | 26.11 | 03.12 | 10.12 | 17.12
“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 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