Meditation & Somatics Retreat

Millerton, NY
Four-Day In-person Somatics Intensive

Registration information is forthcoming
July 10th-13th, 2025
10am-6pm (these are estimated times for planning purposes)

Teacher:
Dara Silverman is an embodiment teacher and social change consultant whose work is based on their 25 plus years of community experience in environmental, social, and racial justice movements, 35 years of facilitation practice, and embodiment training at the Strozzi Institute and generative somatics. She will be joined by friend and colleague Booker.

This in-person, interactive course will build your capacity, embodiment and understanding of yourself inside of liberation movements in the US at this time.

Save-the-dates, and stay tuned for more information about our upcoming Meditation & Somatics Retreat facilitated by Booker and Dara.

No prior somatics experience is needed. However, participants do need to be ready to deepen their connection to their body and the collective body, into their feeling selves and to move toward their longings and visions for the future. The typical course size is 20-30 people. 

"Being part of this cohort has felt like finally coming home, as I've discovered a missing piece in my journeys of racial justice and undoing white supremacy: the body! MY body! Our bodies, together! I feel more hopeful, feeling the palpable change that becomes more possible as we work with our literal cells and tissues, making room for new and more liberatory ways of being. And, what a tremendous gift to get to do this work in community, helping me to break through the lies white supremacy has told me about being all alone, getting to feel instead my belonging in this collectivity."                                                                                  –nicole bauman, Facilitator

COVID Protocols

“I found it nourishing to be physically present with a group of white people committed to anti-racism and to examining and lovingly transforming our own conditioned responses in the world. Practicing grounding exercises with others and exploring my own responses with partners, often with physical connection, opened my full body awareness more deeply than was possible through online training or individual practice. I appreciated the exercises around assessments and will be bringing learnings from that practice to my work within teams. I experienced a sense of collective commitment and community support with our workshop group. In particular, taking the workshop with two colleagues deepened my sense of connection and support with them in our anti-racist and generative conflict work.”

–Teresa McHugh, Sierra Club, Central Region Organizing Director