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Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)

Society & Culture

12 Somatics & Politics -- Sumitra Rajkumar

2018-01-16
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Today we’re talking with Sumitra Rajkumar. We discuss what somatics is, the meaning (and common misinterpretation and misuse) of the concepts of trauma and trigger, the reality of this political moment, and holding the seeming contradictions of organizing, healing, head, and heart.

 

ABOUT OUR GUEST: SUMITRA RAJKUMAR

After twenty years of political education and youth-led documentary work, Sumitra is now a somatics practitioner and teacher under the auspices of generative somatics. She coaches organizers and cultural workers to address the impact of trauma in their lives and step into leadership and collective action.  Sumitra works with organized groups to hone shared values and purpose, process conflict and trust their power to move society towards justice.  She believes in the creative, emotional and intellectual capacities of human beings to become agents of radical, interdependent social movements. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and is working on her first novel.

 

PRACTICE

Download the corresponding practice to hear Sumitra guide you through a Somatic Centering practice that can be done anywhere, alone or in a group… and is one of the most fundamental building block tools of somatics, helping you to presence yourself fully in your life and in your work. You’ll need a place you can focus, and no supplies other than yourself for this practice. It can be done alone or in a group.

 

FURTHER RESOURCES

Generative Somatics website

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Genome by Matt Ridley

The Physiology of Racist and Sexist Oppression by Shannon Sullivan

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Healing Sex by Staci Haines

The Anatomy of Change by Richard Strozzi

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

The Feeling of What Happens by Anthony Damasio

Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert

And hey… the poem that talks about the “soft animal of the body” IS by Mary Oliver! It’s Wild Geese.

  

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We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice

 

THANK YOU
Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM
Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien
All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

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