Dear Ones,
Our bodies have been asking us to slow down. Not in words, exactly—more like a gentle insistence, a gravitational pull toward stillness.
Winter invites us toward our inner sanctuary. It asks us to rest in ways we often resist.
Rest is not the absence of movement, but a different kind of movement entirely. The movement toward ourselves. Toward the quiet places we’ve been too busy to visit. Toward the ancestors who have always been holding us, even when we forget to notice.
This is the terrain of somatic nourishment—the deep tending that happens when we bring awareness, presence, and ancestral support to our bodies’ need for rest.
On January 25th, I’m holding space for this kind of nourishment. “Rest into Winter with Ancestral Hands” is a 2-hour virtual practice where we work with guided somatic supportive touch, ancestral connection, and what it means to truly land in our bodies.
This offering centers African Diasporic and multicultural healing traditions and welcomes all bodies who come with cultural humility and reverence for these ancestral wisdoms. The practice will honour your pace, your boundaries and the inherent wisdom your body carries.
If some part of you said “yes, I need this” while reading—I hope you’ll join us. And if not this time, I trust you’ll find the rest your body is asking for in whatever way feels right.
Winter is teaching us something. May we allow ourselves to listen.
Warmly,
P.S. Stay tuned for February Black History Month Offerings: A Somatic Nourishment Resting Series honouring Black African Diasporic women, femmes, and gender expansive beings. Practices for deep rest and liberatory self-care—dates and descriptions coming soon.