Spring Village Lab Salon - Ancestral Wellness as Body Sovereignty

3334 Northwest Luzon Street,Portland OR 97210

19 March, 2023

Description

The daily rhythm of our lives organizes our bodies to urgency, stress, and productivity. For BIPOC folks, the trauma of racism is an even greater burden our bodies must bear. The patterns inevitably take their toll on our wellness. To make matters worse, we are constantly bombarded by wellness advice that focus our self-care practices on predetermined rules and guidelines that don’t always fit. This is especially challenging for folks with chronic illnesses. These experiences undermine our sense of agency over our bodies and our ability to listen to the wisdom within. In Ancestral Wellness As Body Sovereignty, Radical Rest explores what it is like to live under the shout of well-meaning health helpers and explore rebuilding body sovereignty through ancestral wellness ways. As always, the Village Lab Salon is a communal healing space for BIPOC folks to share, witness, learn and grow using somatic and trauma-informed hands on practices. In this workshop, facilitator T. Aisha Edwards (Full Flight Wellness) shares xer own version of Jamaican balmyard medicine as a beginning for remembering the ancestral wellness ways in your own lineage. Please join us for this BIPOC ONLY healing justice event facilitated by BIPOC facilitators. Light refreshments served. Dress for movement. www.radicalrest.org