Registration required (to sdf.javdani@gmail.com):

Our bodies carry the imprints of systemic structures that have historically shaped and controlled our lives. These structures are not just external; they are embodied, shaping how we move, feel, and relate to ourselves, others and the world. Through our somatic experience, we can recognize how these forces live within us and find ways to reclaim our agency within the broader journey towards social justice and healing. In this circle, participants are invited to explore their relationships with their bodies and play around with new ways of being in their body that prioritize care and connection. It offers them tools and practices for active breathing and somatic opening, while offering each other presence or touch. Clear communication, consent, and the mindful acknowledgment of boundaries are central to this practice. Attending the circle can be a recurring practice of showing up for ourselves and creating intentional space for connection and communal care.

About the facilitator:
Sadaf Javdani (they) is a somatic explorer and facilitator, with several years of experience in social work, counselling, and community organising as well as writing on social justice. Having been involved in QTI*BIPoC activist communities, they are committed to integrate learnings developed through trauma-informed activism, transformative justice, and politicized somatics to create a facilitation style that is radically bold and fiercely soft. Inspired by the teachings of decolonial somatics, their work centers on creating spaces to reconnect with our bodies, with each other, and with the possibility of transforming the way we hold ourselves and relate to the world.

Casa-Kua is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. If there anything specific you’d like to share with the facilitator, or any special access needs they should be aware of, please feel free to mention them in the form or contact sdf.javdani@gmail.com.