396) Staci K. Haines: Somatics for trauma healing and transformative justice
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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“If we’re soaking in all these default practices that are power-over practices that are reflected to us through the media, through our families and communities, through how the economy works, it means we’re embodying things that we might not even agree with that might not at all align with our values, but we’re embodying them anyway.”
Staci K. Haines is a somatics innovator and the author of The Politics of Trauma. In her decades of working and teaching in the field of somatics, Staci has grown fascinated with the “how” rather than the “why.” She invokes questions such as how we are shaped, how we cultivate resilience, how we practice, and how we transform.
Observing somatics as a holistic paradigm shift, Staci offers insight into the body as a form of place—a place where the personal meets the collective. With this in mind, she invites us to explore how working with embodied somatic practices in safe and accessible ways can shape the ways in which we want to respond to, act on, and heal cycles of trauma. By leaning on the phrase “we become what we practice,” Staci poses somatics as a relational space where social justice, collective aliveness, and personal healing align in untangling the knots of exploitative power. Ultimately, she expresses the urgent need for collective resourcefulness as guided by somatic awareness.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Trust The Sun by Oropendola. The episode-inspired artwork is by Nano Février.)
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| 1:11.9 | on these conversations, and more. If you've been with us for a while, you also know that we |
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| 1:35.0 | at greendreamer.com slash support. I often think of humans as this, like we're just this walking contradiction. |
| 1:47.2 | Like the worst of us is the worst of us. |
| 1:50.6 | Like power, trauma, violence, domination. |
| 1:56.6 | That's in our capacity, obviously. |
| 1:59.5 | And then there is the best of us. |
| 2:01.6 | We're incredibly cooperative. |
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