The Wisdom of the Body: A Somatics Practice Workshop
Somatic Practitioners: Donaji Lona, Jen Moran, and Sue Kuyper
When: Tuesday, March 26th, 4-6pm
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Cost: By donation
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Somatic Practitioners
Donaji Lona
Donaji Lona integrates her Biniza (Zapotec) indigenous ancestral legacy of interdependence, resilience, resistance, and community struggle into the organic transformation process and integrates politicized somatics in her work with clients. She has been a long-term community organizer for immigrant rights (POWER) and as a member of (National Domestic Workers Alliance). She brings her commitment to social justice to her politicized healing work. She’s been a teacher and practitioner in the field of somatics for over ten years. Her experience as the mother of two sons, one with Down syndrome (now an ancestor), has defined her vision of inclusion and care for life.
Jennifer Moran
Jennifer Moran is a healer (healing her own past traumas and ancestral lineage) and holistic bodyworker who is committed to healing the world through individualized somatic understanding, building strong families and communities, and promoting health equity. Her studies of somatics, psychology and anthropology, special education, bodywork and energywork, integrative medicine, birthwork and end of life transition all give insight and contribute to the well-rounded approach she has in working with her clients. Jen also has strong spiritual practices that guide her and her path forward. Please visit her website to learn more about her service: www.mamadoulajoy.net
Sue Kuyper
Sue Kuyper is a bilingual politicized somatic healer and therapist, licensed clinical social worker, and organizational consultant who has been working in crossroads of social movements, community-based organizations and healing for the past 30 years primarily in the Mission District in San Francisco, Oakland, and Guatemala. During the years of 2001-2009, Sue worked with rural, urban, and indigenous survivors of genocide and political repression in Guatemala. She offers an in-depth multicultural, international, and multidisciplinary perspective with expertise in community worker vicarious trauma, transnational families, immigration trauma, and embodied whiteness. She is a single mother with co-parents of two multiracial young people who teach her to stay humble and committed to deep change every single day. Sue lives and works on unceded Chochenyo and Muwekma Ohlone homeland also known as Oakland, California.