27.10.2023 | 31.10.2023 | Basel
DeCoLoNiZiNg OUR bodyMINDS is a transformative experience and workshop featuring performance poetry, movement sessions, and generative dialogue. Through this experiential format, we invite for an embodied experience on what decolonizing from various systems of oppression could entail.
In the embodiment session, we create a space where all bodies and movements are acknowledged and celebrated. Through grounding exercises and inter-relating with diverse bodies, we will reconnect with our own dignity, pride and agency and shift the fear, shame, guilt, apathy and anger stored by oppressive systems within us. From contraction to expansion, we will sweat out some remnants of colonization and build resilience against its further influence, and bring forth the imagination for emergent regenerative futures. Through generative dialogue, sharing our experiences and insights, we hope to uncover new wisdoms and ways of being.
Come as you are, this workshop is a powerful opportunity to discover embodied imaginations that lie within you.
DeCoLoNiZiNg OUR bodyMINDS took place on the 27th of October 2023 at Theatre Safe in Unternehmen Mitte Basel, and on the 31st of October 2023 at the Auditorium of Freigemeinschaftsbank Basel.
“The workshop was an unexpected deep immersion into my own body and into the presence of other beautiful people. I was stunning to see how much inner movement is possible within a short time of only one evening workshop.”
Robert
“Grateful for the experience of decolonising my bodymind. Recognising, releasing & relearning with compassion for the colonised and the coloniser. I am both. And today I choose to free myself of both towards collective radical liberation.”
Ragulan
“The Workshop Decolonizing Our Bodyminds was an experience of collective grief and healing. A carefully held space for vulnerabilty and connection through creative expression, an innovative way of dealing with deep wounds.”
Andrea“I am definitely feeling a lot better and felt a bag of emotions lifted off my shoulders without much of talking and only expressing through silence and connecting through energy.”
Ramana
Decolonization of the body-mind workshop was a transformative journey towards reclaiming my authentic self and breaking free from oppressive systems. Through embracing this process, I could rediscover my inner worth and innate wisdom, breaking away from the colonized ideals and cultivating self-empowerment. Decolonization of the body-mind did bring me liberation, healing, and the opportunity for genuine self-expression. Thank you for creating such a conscious and safe space!
Noemi
Below you will find some images of the performance and integrative drawings from the participants.
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