WELCOME TO the village

We are countering cultures of fragmentation and separation; experimenting with ways to find each other across divides and imagine a “world in which many worlds fit”
(Zapatistas)

the study & practice of self & communal care

The Village is a space of embodied study and practice around the creation of care ecologies; in response to the distrust, division and alienation rampant in Western culture. We are focused on relationship—to the nurturing of connection to self, other, and our world through study, somatic practice, critical consciousness raising, and creative expression and activism. 

The spaces we offer will stretch and challenge us in ways that can make room for transformation, through a body-centered framework that promotes the experiential and soma as portals to the imagination and creativity that are a part of our reworlding. 

is a virtual gathering space that exists as an embodied collective study and practice space and a watering hole for inspiration and expanding perspectives and encounters with others in other global contexts so that they may inspire local possibilities for local connections and activities) of people interested in the study and practice of care ecologies and liberation. 

THE ROOTED VILLAGE

This series is a journey into the tension between self and belonging—the longing for connection and the fear of losing ourselves inside it. Through storytelling, myth, and reflection, we’ll explore how to move beyond cultural conditioning and step into true interdependence.

Our FREE Care Lab project series

coming soon

There is nothing more radical than friendship—a force capable of bridging divides and countering the dehumanization that keeps us locked in separation.

Our gatherings are an experiment in care on our way to community, a portal into radical possibility explored through sound, art, stories, play, collective inquiry, and nurturing creativity. These explorations are grounded in self-responsibility and the delicate dance between safety, resource, and relational risk. 

the study &  practice of care ecologies

We are body-centric site of un/learning and co-creation through embodied collective study, and somatic and liberatory practice.

Our monthly offerings are designed to facilitate opportunities to imagine possibilities of relationship across divides, and to cultivate the underground networks of care that do not rely on unstable institutional structures and attempt something different than what has been conditioned through harmful cultural paradigms. 

Spiritual
Activism & Critical Consciousness-Raising

Experimentation/
Relational-Risk

Becoming Creators & Cultural Producers

our Ethos

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Spiritual
Activism & Critical Consciousness-Raising

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Experimentation/
Relational-Risk

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Becoming Creators

our ethos & dedication

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Spiritual
Activism & Critical Consciousness-Raising

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Experimentation/
Relational-Risk

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Becoming Creators

our ethos & dedication

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Spiritual
Activism & Critical Consciousness-Raising

LEARN MORE

Experimentation/
Relational-Risk

LEARN MORE

Becoming Creators

our ethos & dedication

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LEARN MORE

Spiritual
Activism & Critical Consciousness-Raising

our Ethos

Becoming Creators & Cultural Producers

Experimentation/
Relational-Risk

"To bridge is to attempt community, and for that we must risk being open to personal, political, and spiritual intimacy, to risk being wounded. "

—Gloria Anzaldúa

Rooted is a body-centered community committed to deepening self and communal awareness through somatic practice, creative expression, and liberatory movement. We create spaces for transformation through embodied modalities like SE+AM, as well as spaces that foster celebration, cultural dexterity, and collective resilience through music, song, dance, and movement. Challenging conditioned models of learning, we embrace an emergent process of (un)learning inspired by Paulo Freire, illuminating ways to disrupt entrenched personal and cultural conditioning. Our monthly gatherings cultivate critical consciousness, relational depth, and creative reworlding. You are welcome here—and we invite you to trust your wisdom in knowing when it’s right to be here.

Somatic practices & celebration

The Rooted Care Lab is an embodied co-research space exploring how we build relational trust, mutual care, and community through collective study, somatic practice, and creative expression. This journey responds to the challenges and divisions we encounter—scarcity, race, class, conflict, and other barriers to relationship—by engaging in movement, music, song, and experimental practices that expand our capacity for connection.  

It is not a classroom where answers are given, but a collective workshopping experience where we gather in inquiry, study, and embodied experimentation. Through self-reflexivity and bodily practice, we cultivate responsibility for the worlds that come next, bringing forth the unique contributions each of us has to offer in our virtual and local contexts.

the rooted
care lab

coming soon

You wish to practice self-care and self-responsibility, calling forward your wisest and most intentional self into collective study and practice.

You wish to engage in ongoing personal and collective (embodied) study, but have no plans to go "back to school".

You're exhausted by the binary choices of our culture is fraught with, and seek alternatives.

You feel ready to engage in relational experimentation, entering ‘brave space’, and vulnerability to reach across divides and weave friendship. Knowing that friendship denotes care and mutual regard for others.

You seek to challenge systems of isolation and alienation.  Valuing the individual while re/membering our interdependence and the unique and important contributions we each can make to social change. 

You are interested in how radical love and collective care could look and feel.

You want to know how what your unique contribution to the world could be, and nurture that spark with others. 

THE VILLAGE IS FOR YOU IF...

JOIN THE WAITLIST

the village will open to new enrollment again in April 2025. If you resonate with what we are doing, join the waitlist to be the first to know when we reopen.

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