Aulic Anamika
Sufi-Atemarbeit & Erzählheilung
Community healing service offered by Aulic Anamika
Instagram @aulic_anamika Email: nsaulic@gmail.com
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare (Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light).
Description
Hi, I am Aulic (they/she/no pronoun). I am a queer nonbinary person of Color with South Asian heritage and a founding member of the Queer*ing Creative Writing Group (QCWG) Berlin, a writing community meeting monthly at Casa Kuà.
Here is a brief description of what I am offering as a community healing service:
🟠 Session by appointment only (Online if I am out of town)
🟡 Title: Sufi Breathwork & Narrative Healing
🟢 Offered by: Aulic Anamika (they/she/no pronoun)
🔵 For whom: QTINBIPOC centered but all identities are welcome
🔴 Healing philosophy:
I am a breathworker, storyteller, and writer. I bring my interdisciplinary skills and expertise to offer community healing services. As a former physician (not licensed to practice biomedicine in Germany), I no longer practice biomedicine but rather support self- and collective healing processes through a combination of Sufi (and other) postsecular breathwork techniques and therapeutic storytelling practices.
Physical symptoms are accompanied by the mental stories we tell ourselves about what makes us suffer. Healing work requires attention to breaths, words, and human connections. Biomedical interventions like pharmaceuticals and surgical interventions provide effective but ultimately short-term remedies, breath work and storytelling provide existential healing for our everyday sufferings. We learn to heal sufferings not by getting rid of them completely, but by learning how to live with them.
Intersectionality is crucial in understanding the complexities of gender identity and its impact on marginalized communities (Alok Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary).
Individual and community healing do not happen in a vacuum. An intersectional politics of healing teaches us that the capitalist, extractivist, cis-hetero-patriarchal system needs to be resisted and transformed to stop the perpetuation of trauma on our bodies, minds, and souls. Breathing well and telling our stories to each other (among others) have the potential to liberate us from these daily suffocations and can assist us in gathering the energies required for continuing the long struggle of political liberation.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Aulic