Returning Home to Our Bodies Audiobook

For readers of adrienne maree brown Staci K Haines and Robin Wall Kimmerer

A bodybased healing model that interrogates what weve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the bodyand pushes back against the white supremacy colonialism patriarchy and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices

Pushing back against a consumerist pleasurecentric somatics industry that privileges product over processAbigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self nature and community

Combining the rigor of the scientific method with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies Clarkes somatic learning systemThe Embodiment of Life Methodcenters the body as a guide through todays most seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges reclaiming the body as a source of liberatory comfort in times of great uncertainty and yet possibility

With tools and practices to help us better understand and dismantle the many ways our bodies are weaponized to serve domination systems topics covered include

• Harnessing the vitality of curiosity and experimentation
• Using nature as a guide to possibility
• Embracing the necessity of difference
• Exposing the lie of universal isolation
• Dismantling the fallacy of hierarchy
• Uncovering the truth of endless capacity
• Awe as a driving force for transformation

With methods honed over decades of inquiry teaching and practice Returning Home to Our Bodies provides a lucid bodybased model of healing and restorationone that imagines a world beyond systems of domination marginalization and isolation to nurture embodied wholecommunity liberation