Sovereign Somatics

📣 STL Q***r Sangha is now TWICE monthly! 📣 Join this Sunday 8/23 at Kyle Brandt-Lubart. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

📿 Healing-centered & counter-oppress!ve.
📿 Somatic & invitational.
📿 Lighthearted, interactive & space to really get into the depths of it.

STL Q***r Sangha is a Dharma & Meditation group for all LGBTQIA+ folks & co-conspirators to gather & practice Radical Dharma.

This is the pathway where the inner-work connects to the outer-work.

You are welcome here. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

2nd Tuesdays 6:30-8pm
4th Sundays 11-12:30pm

4700 Virginia Ave.
Suggested investment $5-25
No one turned away for lack of funds

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Meetups are now alternating 3rd Saturdays and TUESDAYS! 🩵 We heard y’all, many healers work on Saturdays so we’ve opened up a Tuesday evening option for community building for the q***r healers of St. Louis! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚜️

Q***r Hearts Healers Cafe isn’t your typical, dry, networking event. This is about being in *conversation*, being in peer-to-peer support, being connected across the healer spectrum because it’s often difficult to receive the kinda support we give in our role to community.

Deanna here of Sovereign Somatics | Deanna Danger 👋🏻 I initiated this project because I saw connection gaps between the types of healers & healing modalities out here in STL. I haven’t lived in STL a long time (since 2019), and I’ve found it difficult to be in deeper connection with other healers. And look, Missouri is very much not the easiest state to offer healing to q***r & trans folks. It’s actually really vital that we be in relationship with each other. Not only for our clients, students & patients, but certainly for each other. 🩵

So if you’re a healer out there, make it a point to keep this event on your calendar. 📅

🏳️‍🌈 Even months - 3rd Tuesdays (so next week Aug 18th), 5:30-7:30pm

🏳️‍🌈 Odd months - 3rd Saturdays, 10-12pm

📍Both at the Tower Grove Farmers' Market

We’ve got a signal group going for connection & updates (Q***r Hearts is suuuuper grassroots & definitely invites your ideas & energy into organizing). Email us your info at q***[email protected] to join the signal, or simply show up to the Cafe!

Tag a healer friend in the comments that you wanna bring to the next meetup! 🩵

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I want you to look inside your relationships & see where this is happening right now… I bet it’s there, and I bet it’s hard to navigate!

You can sense a shift simmering, or that a BREAK in the cycle is desperately needed, but that actual, actionable step through the portal feels unreal, impossible, or inaccessible. This is why body-up, relational somatics are sooo helpful for figuring out HOW to navigate challenge.

Look, eclipses are unstable by nature, but I’m not the kind of person that is gonna fear-monger the astrology, OR guide you on some high vibe, manifestation ritual yt wellness culture bu****it.

What eclipses really reveal, is that our life constantly moves through the spectrum of shadow & light. And when the lights go out momentarily and you get that weird, eerie stillness, you tend to be able to see some s**t in the dark that you’re not normally able to see. Most people run from what they don’t want to see - that’s how hurt & harm happens. But taking a beat to turn TOWARDS is how liberation happens.

That’s what my guidance is always, ever about. How to unlock sovereignty. In both our own bodymind, and in our community.

That’s what this Leo New Moon - Total Solar Eclipse NOCTURNE is all about.

Tag a bestie in the comments you wanna attend with & comment NOCTURNE and I’ll DM you the link to register.

The fight is far from over. ✊🏻 And HOW we stay in it, how we organize & act alongside each other is just as important as what we are fighting for. ❤️‍🔥 

NERVOUS SYSTEM SOVEREIGNTY FOR RESISTANCE is a politicized, somatic seminar for organizers, activists, front line responders & justice oriented folks to cultivate & maintain resiliency to stay connected, stay in the revolution.

Learn, heal, practice & *embody* somatic techniques to cultivate *power-with* your nervous system, for *power-with* collective change. 👇🏻

A sovereign nervous system is one that knows how to flex, adapt, stay skillful even within challenging circumstances and embody aligned response instead of reactive disrailment. 🔻 

What you’ll learn:

- Nervous system first aid
- Community healing & mutual care
- Relational somatics for front-line & organizational movement
- Generative rage & grief
- Between-action nervous system care

Advance registration required, suggested investment $5-30, no one turned away for lack of funds! Bring yourself, bring a comrade!

📍 Comment SOVEREIGNTY for registration & full info.

Wanna know more about the facilitator’s values, commitments & training? sovereign-somatics.com
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Cori. ✅💜⚜️🗳️

Your friendly, neighborhood, water-bearing, ant!-authoritarian, BODY-consciousness raising somatic reminder that your ways of knowing in this world are sooooooo much wider & deeper than what your brain tells you on autopilot everyday. ⛲️♒️❤️‍🔥

The clients & students that come to my type of somatic work aren’t looking to learn *new* things about themselves, they’re looking for ways to UNLOCK what it is they already know. ⛓️‍💥

No one is gonna play us more than we play ourselves. Ask me how I know. 🃏🙃

Sovereign Somatics isn’t concerned about dictating “the one right framework” that’s gonna “have all the right answers.” ✋🏻

Sovereign Somatics is concerned teaching you how to detangle from power-OVER dynamics living on autopilot in your life, and guiding you through power-WITH your body, with your nervous system, with your sovereignty.

Your answers & destinations are your own. I’m just helping with the GPS. ❤️‍🔥✌🏻

Got a lot of workshops, groups & sessions coming out as we approach the fall… 🔗 in my bio to get you to my newsletter list & Signal group for info & goodies. 💌

***rsomatics

Your Friday evening after work alternative for nervous system replenishment in nature starts July 31st! 🌳🙌🏻

Meditations Are Somatic (Body-Up), Compassion-Based, Trauma & Neurocognitive Informed.

Variations provided throughout (including instruction for walking meditation), beginners welcome, fidgets & art supplies welcome if stillness isn’t your thing.

All guidance is invitational & includes a period of silent meditation (my most requested offering)!

Bring a cushion, blanket or chair, water bottle & whatever else you need for the weather. Please refrain from substances - this space is offered for the sober & sober curious as an after-work alternative. 🚫🥃

*Sessions may be canceled due to extreme or inclement weather - check my IG stories for updates.

Register in advance or drop on in
Suggested investment $5-25
No one turned away for lack of funds

🔗 & Full info at the b!0