Embodying Liberation
This course offers a transformative journey into embodied resistance and collective healing. Developed under siege and exile, Ashira Active Meditation draws from Sufi whirling, somatic release, and indigenous Palestinian practices to support healing from trauma on both personal and collective levels. Participants will: - Explore how continuous trauma shapes the nervous system - Learn how the body can be a site of both memory and liberation - Engage in movement practices, grief rituals, and storytelling - Reclaim joy as a form of resistance Guiding Questions: - How do we grieve while building resilience? - How can our bodies become vessels for transgenerational healing? - What does it mean to be radically alive in times of collapse? This course centers voices from SWANA and global majority communities, offering tools that are culturally rooted, somatically empowering, and spiritually sustaining.
Course Overview
This course offers a transformative journey into embodied resistance and collective healing.
Developed under siege and exile, Ashira Active Meditation draws from Sufi whirling, somatic release, and indigenous Palestinian practices to support healing from trauma on both personal and collective levels.
Participants will:
- Explore how continuous trauma shapes the nervous system
- Learn how the body can be a site of both memory and liberation
- Engage in movement practices, grief rituals, and storytelling
- Reclaim joy as a form of resistance
Guiding Questions:
- How do we grieve while building resilience?
- How can our bodies become vessels for transgenerational healing?
- What does it mean to be radically alive in times of collapse?
This course centers voices from SWANA and global majority communities, offering tools that are culturally rooted, somatically empowering, and spiritually sustaining.
Who Is This Course For?
- Artists, activists, healers, therapists
- People living through or supporting others through generational or political trauma
- Members of colonized and marginalized communities, especially Black, Brown, SWANA, and diasporic peoples
- Anyone seeking embodied tools for personal and collective resilience
What You'll Learn
- Explore somatic tools rooted in ancestral and cultural practices
- Create a personalized integration map for sustainable wellbeing
- Critically examine and decolonize Western psychological frameworks
- Embody Sumud — Palestinian steadfastness — as a physical and analytical practice of resistance
What's Included
Live Sessions
Interactive classes with your instructor
Session Recordings
Lifetime access to all recordings
Community Access
Connect with fellow learners
Certificate
Proof of course completion
Course Modules
The Body Keeps the Score
Understanding how oppression lives in our bodies
Somatic Practices for Release
Tools for releasing stored tension and trauma
Reconnecting with Body Wisdom
Listening to what your body knows
Embodied Freedom
Living liberation in your daily life
Real-World Project
Learners will design a personal or community-based ritual (eg guided meditation, movement practice, storytelling circle, or grief ritual) They will also prepare a personal case study + presentation documenting their healing journey throughout the course and how they’ve applied Ashira Active Meditation in service of their communities.
About the Instructor
Ashira Darwish
Ashira Darwish
Somatic practitioner and liberation educator guiding others to embody freedom and healing through body-centered practices.
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25 students max
8 sessions
90 min each
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