May 2022 Ceremony of Welcome

Karine Bell makes her home with her two kids, her partner and a dog.

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She’s a somatics teacher and abolitionist, dedicated to embodied trauma

alchemy. A bi-cultural black woman, she’s also a culturally reflexive anthropologist exploring the intersection of where our bodies/psyches/experiences meet our collective histories.

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She believes in the healing made possible at the personal and collective level by the work we do through transforming experience in our bodies today. She combines continued study in somatics with studies in depth psychology with a focus on community, liberation, indigenous and eco-psychologies at Pacifica.

Weena Pauly-Tarr has been devoted to the fleshy experience of human movement since she started moving. Weena focuses her curiosity where the somatic therapy world meets the dance world, and it is there where she developed her body of work SE+AM, the synergistic location of Somatic Experiencing with Authentic Movement. Weena’s newest work, “Monster Mourning” premiered in NYC in 2023 with a sold out run. Along with running SE+AM groups and sessions, Weena currently works as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a dancer and dance maker, a movement trainer, a Rooted team member and a mother to four. She delights in the incredible range of humans bodying.

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