Deep Connection Through Collective (Movement) Practice: Groups For Black, BIPOC, Queer, Neurodivergent, and Disabled Femmes & Femme Healers+Leaders
Deep Connection Through Collective (Movement) Practice: Groups For Black, BIPOC, Queer, Neurodivergent, and Disabled Femmes & Femme Healers+Leaders: Deep Connection Groups are radical, needs-first spaces of experimenting with being our rawest selves and caring for our needs. They are small, informal, playful, and celebratory groups that experiment with co-creating a space of deep connection, home, family, and emotional safety through collective (movement) practice, medicinal movement, art, and design. Justina leads groups through learning, sharing, or experimenting with individual and collective (movement) practices that give access to deep connection to our rawest selves, our personal history, our personal ancestry, our bodies’ needs, each other, communities, nature, universe, and future we are creating – our whole physical world. In the process, we develop and share our practices of creating spaces of deep connection. Groups create space for raw truth-telling and raw expression grounded in our current/recent personal feelings and experiences within our current sociopolitical context, emphasizing our current collective experience of grief, loss, death, suffering, conflict, tension, and transition. Groups are grounded in practices of emotional safety and nervous system safety, meaning participants have choice, agency, and flexibility with how they participate and are encouraged to disrupt, leave, pause, say no, express needs, and stay within their own levels of comfort. We collaboratively design each group based on the needs, interests, desires, and feelings of those participating.
Who Can Attend: Black, BIPOC, Queer, Neurodivergent, and Disabled Femmes & Femme Healers+Leaders (no dance or somatic experience necessary)
Frequency: Weekly
Location: Expression Dance and Wellness in Cortlandt Manor, NY
Dates: Tentatively Saturdays 6-7:30pm, Seven sessions, Oct 19 – December 14 (excluding Oct. 26, Nov. 23, Nov. 30).
Sessions: Register for the first session only or all sessions.
Pricing: Sliding scale, with scholarships available for those with financial need (email your request and need statement to justina@rawmovement.org). All sessions: $700-1400. Session one: $50 for session one.
Host: Justina Kamiel Grayman, PhD of Raw Movement.
Justina’s Bio: www.justinagrayman.com/about
More About Justina: https://www.instagram.com/p/C8UKU1zOFic/?igsh=MXA2b29mbXY3Y2hvNA==
How to Register: E-mail justina@rawmovement.org by September 25th to converse about your needs (including any access needs or needs you have to feel most safe and at ease), desires, and interests. Indicate whether you desire for the group to focus on one of the following groups: Black Femmes, BIPOC Femmes, Crip/Disabled Femmes, Queer/Neuroqueer Femmes, Neurodivergent Femmes. If you’d like to participate, request to participate by October 1st here. If your request is approved, you’ll be given the link to register/pay.
Hosted at Expression Dance and Wellness, this is a special group from guest teacher Justina Kamiel Grayman, PhD of Raw Movement. Justina Kamiel Grayman, Ph.D. is an artist and community psychology PhD who studies practices and processes for designing and building beautiful communities of deep freedom, truth, and connection. She holds a BA in Psychology from Stanford University and a PhD in Psychology and Social Intervention from New York University. She has taught psychology courses at New York University, Walden University, and Manhattan School of Music – and performed domestically/internationally in contemporary and postmodern dance companies.