Embodied Liberation principles & practice

ELI believes that it will be helpful to have our next generation of healing practitioners

equipped with a multi-dimensional liberatory approach.

ELI aspires to assist practitioners to cultivate an embodied consciousness and toolbox

to assist healing explorations from the individual to the collective

and to metabolize the impacts of supremacy towards liberatory healing for one and all.

Embodied Liberation principles of practice

Belonging and relational practice

We create collaborative therapeutic spaces in which our clients are affirmed in their complexity.

We explore what embodied safety feels like and together. We co-create a felt sense of belonging through invitation, attention to embodied consent and the conscious understanding and accountability of the power we hold as practitioners in our multiple identities.

Liberatory practice

Our practices address healing from supremacy - how it shows up in clients lives, how it intersectionally shows up in the practitioner-client dynamic and we aim to understand and dismantle internalized oppression with care.

We work collaboratively and with embodied consent toward a collective embodied liberation as we become conscious of and heal from the impacts of supremacy in all its forms.

Embodied practice

We cultivate and listen for the brilliance and subtlety of what and how the body is ready to share. We hang out with curious presence and follow the body's cues towards healing. Presence, groundedness in our coherence and curious attention matter.

Trauma-informed practice

We are bringing a holistic lens and tools which assist clients in thoughtfully unpacking and metabolizing trauma - personal trauma, collective trauma, historical trauma, systemic trauma, intergenerational trauma and environmental trauma. We're mindful to help clients titrate trauma's intensity with resource, containment and care.

Ancestral and lineage-infused practice

We are exploring ancestral lineages and dynamics in the spirit of acknowledging that our familial, cultural, racial, gendered, economic, geographic stories as practitioners are always present in the therapeutic dynamics with our clients.

Emergent medicine and presence

We are learning to listen deeply with our clients, moment to moment, with trust and intuitive intelligence.

We understand that our liberatory-attuned-presence collaboratively illuminates the map and medicine for each next step of healing.