Somatic workshop
Liza Baliasnaja & Rūta Junevičiūtė – Sore spots: scanning visceral manifestations of trauma

Project „Passing on Resilience“

Fr, 17.11.2023
12:00 – 16:00 SODAS 2123

Poet CAConrad writes “We are time machines/ of water and flesh/ patterned for destruction/ if we do not release the trauma”.

Trauma always happens in the body. It is a wordless story our body tells us about what is safe and what is unsafe. It is not a flaw or weakness, but a highly effective tool of continuity of life. We are bodies born out of other bodies feeding other bodies. Fear in one generation leads to sensitivity and even anxiety in the next. Angry people live in angry bodies, frightened ones live in bodies constantly on guard. Body remembers and ensures the possibility of memorization. Body is not only a site of memory but also a gate to access the past. Paying attention to what is communicated through the body, can be a powerful tool for unlocking and changing one’s relationship to trauma. We ask ourselves, can we be held accountable for carrying transgenerational trauma with unconscious compulsion to repeat, instead of releasing it? What somatic practices and forms of togetherness can do for the sake of collective and individual post-traumatic growth? How body-oriented approaches can mend holistic wounds, shielded with shame and dissociation, that fragments our visceral truth of experience?

This workshop is open for a limited number of people (10 participants). Everyone is welcome and no prior experience in somatic work or movement practices is needed. Please inform us in advance, if you have specific accessibility needs. Reservations for the workshop are open until the 14th of November (23:59h) on the first come, first serve basis.

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