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Marika Heinrichs

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Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs   What a pleasure to speak with Marika Heinrichs of Wildbody.ca about somatics, lineages, respect and repair - and what a delight to have such a rich and tender conversation in Rumi’s field that sits outside of any rigid and fixed ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing.    I hope you enjoy this important conversation.      Marika Heinrichs is the granddaughter of German Mennonite, British, and Irish settlers to the part of Turtle Island colonially know as Canada. She is a queer, femme, somatics practitioner and facilitator whose work focuses on the recovery of ancestral wisdom through body-based ways of knowing, and challenging the appropriation and erasure of Indigenous knowledge in the field of somatics. Marika resides on Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe territory (a.k.a. Guelph, Ontario). She is grateful for the nourishment and support of her peers, mentors, and more-than-human kin.    Links: website: wildbdoy.ca IG: @wildbodysomatics Courses: wildbody.ca/embodied-ethics     Here is a link to a beautiful and important piece written by Marika which I referred to in our conversation - On White People Building Belonging Together in our Movements for Liberation. https://wildbody.ca/blog/on-building-belonging-as-white-people-within-our-movements   Some powerful quotes from Marika’s writings and teachings:     "I believe that building healing communities is just as important as having access to individualized healing supports such as therapy.       Divesting from appropriation is about both surrendering entitlement and feeling into the truth of our own peoples. I believe we are all capable of appropriation, and as a white bodied person I don't feel it's my work to tell Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour how to engage with their practices. I can share from what I know through my own journey into these questions, which includes feeling how intimately connected extraction, violence, and severance from the natural world are to the projects of white supremacy and Christian hegemony.   Lack of acknowledgment and consent, spiritual bypassing, claiming ownership and superiority, prohibitive costs, lack of access for the descendants of the very peoples from whom practices emerged, no sense of connection or accountability to our own peoples, normalizing cis, straight, thin, white, able bodies… the list goes on.    I want to envision a methodology of somatics that is invested in liberation right down to the roots of the lineages and histories of our practices. If we are not tending to the ways that this field has been shaped by supremacy, we are missing a core component of embodied liberation.    Practices emerge from culture, they are shaped by time, place, and cosmology. All of our peoples had practices and ways of working with the body towards healing. Even if we engage in the most consent-based, ethical, values-driven protocols with practices from outside our own cultures, we miss the crucial work of facing into the grief and joy of our own lineages and peoples. I believe that the unwillingness to do this is one way that the field of somatics can perpetuate white supremacy, and I envision new/old practices that reconnect us with our ancestors and carry us through mourning, accountability, and repair as white people. As practitioners, we hold power around shaping these conversations in our field, and in supporting these conditions with these we serve.        All those years practicing yoga are part of what shaped me and helped me to grow the capacity to release it for a practice that feels more aligned, more liberatory. It’s not for me to decide who should or shouldn’t practice yoga, or whether or not something is appropriation. Those questions can serve as distractions, virtue signalling that keeps us from the work of divesting from the roots of whiteness that lead to appropriation in the first place. I do know that the space that was left when I quit yoga made room for a new kind of connection to emerge that feels much more rooted in my values, and my lineage. I am not sure how we can approach practices such as yoga as white people without having something to share in return. A practice entails a relationship, if we don’t know who we are or where we come from, how can we really engage in mutual connection?"

Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs What a pleasure to speak with Marika Heinrichs of <a href="http://Wildbody.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wildbody.ca</a> about somatics, lineages, respect and repair - and what a delight to have such a rich and tender conversation in Rumi’s field that sits outside of any rigid and fixed ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing.  I hope you enjoy this important conversation.  Marika Heinrichs is the granddaughter of German Mennonite, British, and Irish settlers to the part of Turtle Island colonially know as Canada. She is a queer, femme, somatics practitioner and facilitator whose work focuses on the recovery of ancestral wisdom through body-based ways of knowing, and challenging the appropriation and erasure of Indigenous knowledge in the field of somatics. Marika resides on Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe territory (a.k.a. Guelph, Ontario). She is grateful for the nourishment and support of her peers, mentors, and more-than-human kin.  Links: website: <a href="http://wildbdoy.ca/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wildbdoy.ca</a> IG: @wildbodysomatics Courses: <a href="http://wildbody.ca/embodied-ethics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wildbody.ca/embodied-ethics</a> Here is a link to a beautiful and important piece written by Marika which I referred to in our conversation - On White People Building Belonging Together in our Movements for Liberation. <a href="https://wildbody.ca/blog/on-building-belonging-as-white-people-within-our-movements" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wildbody.ca/blog/on-building-belonging-as-white-people-within-our-movements</a> Some powerful quotes from Marika’s writings and teachings: "I believe that building healing communities is just as important as having access to individualized healing supports such as therapy. Divesting from appropriation is about both surrendering entitlement and feeling into the truth of our own peoples. I believe we are all capable of appropriation, and as a white bodied person I don't feel it's my work to tell Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour how to engage with their practices. I can share from what I know through my own journey into these questions, which includes feeling how intimately connected extraction, violence, and severance from the natural world are to the projects of <a href="http://email.kjbm.wildbody.ca/c/eJxlUMtuhSAU_BrdNJfw9LFg0aZt0nU_wBwElasCAay5f19s7q4JQ85wDswMZge7DfkRjPy4yrfoQY-Qcm3-OlZLSnjXYEppXy-yxaxhWKl2AjKJFjekI0qIiTcKOo5ZnWw21y3S9kKwepNLziFV7LWin2Wd54m0TTu4vFk3RxgLQT7OpXeErYinUvECViAK2osz0faYXNSvhxtuw7lcOukIw3hs-YgGBT3Vu0kJ5nJunDZx0L5kcHK9qx2ddtPK6wca4RlNm83-mPi43Arac8Jp14jaSlrCYkLKTjDuELR6EoJwPjHVKS4qjv-9GOVirIt2XBLaIdoVytR8yaDR73WW38Xuy9d7RdnzYyCEwcFu5Ap3UPaWso9mit7ldAvR62PM1ru6WMOUdfwXFw6Jvg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">white supremacy</a> and <a href="http://email.kjbm.wildbody.ca/c/eJxlUMtuhDAM_BpyqUBJSHgccmjVVuq5H4BMYpYskKAkdMXfN1R7q2RZtuzxjAc3sOuQzh3Vx1W-BQ9GQ0wE_ybWKM5E11DOeU9mxceW8rFnfTMx0-mu4RqgF7RvZculaUm0CS8Ua3spa7KqOaU9FvVrwT9z7HCsi_3BtdJ-y33A6I-gMZecclZOOIYDwlk6fMQVU8JQelfqOdiYLLhyxhtu3p0ZQDaMEW44RHQGw2B8luzUch-36mFXM3pzVhqenxhcM284L3GS94IJ3jWSWJV5OWUsZ0ZpV0FrJimZEFM9dqOQhaD_LgY1o3XB6jlWGwS7QN66XTTXWySp7-zCy9d7weunD7Dvg4MN1QJ3GG0Zkw84Be9SLPfgzaGT9Y5kaZTXnfgFgSGGew" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Christian hegemony</a>. Lack of acknowledgment and consent, spiritual bypassing, claiming ownership and superiority, prohibitive costs, lack of access for the descendants of the very peoples from whom practices emerged, no sense of connection or accountability to our own peoples, normalizing cis, straight, thin, white, able bodies… the list goes on.  I want to envision a methodology of somatics that is invested in liberation right down to the roots of the lineages and histories of our practices. If we are not tending to the ways that this field has been shaped by supremacy, we are missing a core component of embodied liberation.  Practices emerge from culture, they are shaped by time, place, and cosmology. All of our peoples had practices and ways of working with the body towards healing. Even if we engage in the most consent-based, ethical, values-driven protocols with practices from outside our own cultures, we miss the crucial work of facing into the grief and joy of our own lineages and peoples. I believe that the unwillingness to do this is one way that the field of somatics can perpetuate white supremacy, and I envision new/old practices that reconnect us with our ancestors and carry us through mourning, accountability, and repair as white people. As practitioners, we hold power around shaping these conversations in our field, and in supporting these conditions with these we serve.  All those years practicing yoga are part of what shaped me and helped me to grow the capacity to release it for a practice that feels more aligned, more liberatory. It’s not for me to decide who should or shouldn’t practice yoga, or whether or not something is appropriation. Those questions can serve as distractions, virtue signalling that keeps us from the work of divesting from the roots of whiteness that lead to appropriation in the first place. I do know that the space that was left when I quit yoga made room for a new kind of connection to emerge that feels much more rooted in my values, and my lineage. I am not sure how we can approach practices such as yoga as white people without having something to share in return. A practice entails a relationship, if we don’t know who we are or where we come from, how can we really engage in mutual connection?"

Embodying Reverent Relationship with Marika Heinrichs

TNP168 Somatics

Marika Heinrichs is the granddaughter of German Mennonite, British, and Irish settlers to the part of Turtle Island colonially known as Canada. She is a queer, femme, somatics practitioner and facilitator whose work focuses on the recovery of ancestral wisdom through body-based ways of knowing, and challenging the appropriation and erasure of Indigenous knowledge in the field of somatics. Marika resides on Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe territory (a.k.a. Guelph, Ontario).  Kai Cheng Thom Susan Raffo's Piece on the origins of craniosacral therapy Susan Raffo's piece on acknowledging the lineages of healing practices Bear Hebert on quitting yoga Michael J. Morris Prentis Hemphill Don Hanlon Jonhson Camille Barton Robin Wall Kimmerer Resmaa Menakem generative somatics NeuroAffective Touch Focusing Marika's blog post on Bealtaine Marika's course for practitioners

Marika Heinrichs is the granddaughter of German Mennonite, British, and Irish settlers to the part of Turtle Island colonially known as Canada. She is a queer, femme, somatics practitioner and facilitator whose work focuses on the recovery of ancestral wisdom through body-based ways of knowing, and challenging the appropriation and erasure of Indigenous knowledge in the field of somatics. Marika resides on Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee and Anishinabe territory (a.k.a. Guelph, Ontario).  <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kaichengthom/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kai Cheng Thom</a> <a href="https://www.susanraffo.com/blog/aligning-the-relational-field-a-love-story-about-retelling-the-creation-of-craniosacral-therapy-and-a-lot-of-other-touch-based-bodywork-as-well" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Susan Raffo's Piece on the origins of craniosacral therapy</a> <a href="https://www.susanraffo.com/blog/building-collective-liberation-wondering-about-a-protocol-for-healers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Susan Raffo's piece on acknowledging the lineages of healing practices</a> <a href="http://bearteachesyoga.org/blog/2018/10/18/a-letter-to-my-yoga-students" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bear Hebert on quitting yoga</a> <a href="https://www.michaeljmorris.co/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael J. Morris</a> <a href="https://prentishemphill.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prentis Hemphill</a> <a href="https://donhanlonjohnson.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Don Hanlon Jonhson</a> <a href="https://www.camillebarton.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Camille Barton</a> <a href="https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robin Wall Kimmerer</a> <a href="https://www.resmaa.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Resmaa Menakem</a> <a href="https://generativesomatics.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">generative somatics</a> <a href="https://neuroaffectivetouch.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NeuroAffective Touch</a> <a href="https://focusing.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Focusing</a> <a href="https://wildbody.ca/blog/a-wild-dance" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marika's blog post on Bealtaine</a> <a href="https://wildbody.ca/eai-training" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marika's course for practitioners</a>

TNP168 Somatics for White-Bodied Folks Recovering Ancestral Wisdom with Marika Heinrichs

Marika Heinrichs (she/her) is a cis queer femme of (Soviet) German, British, and Irish ancestry who believes that reconnecting with the wisdom of our bodies is vital to ending systems of domination and supremacy. She has practiced as a somatic therapist and educator within social movement spaces for over a decade, trained in the lineages of generative somatics (gs), Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), Focusing, and NeuroAffective Touch and is currently a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies.  In this episode, Eryn and Marika talk about:  Marika’s journey with healing &amp; somatics coming from a community organizing background Trauma, justice and somatics as inherently in relationship Accessing states of liberation, imagination and possibility through the body What happens when we drop into connection and spaciousness Trauma responses to systems of oppression and domination Finding spaces where there is the opportunity to access some safety so we can soften and connect Safety as shades of gray and not as a binary and the absence of discomfort Respecting and honoring the ways bodies and nervous systems are designed Christian supremacy culture infusing and shaping radical spaces and organizing communities A practice of being in deep reverence and relationship with lineage Somatics as inherently politicized and radical Appropriating our own lineages Holding grief when it’s pathologized and we’re disconnected from our cultural practices and ritual around grief Doing what we don’t know how to do  Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/marika-heinrichs  Connect with Eryn on Instagram. Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook. Connect with Marika on her website and on Instagram. Mentioned in this episode:   A Language Older than Words by Derrick Jensen Generative Somatics Paul Kivel Lisa Fazio @therootcircle  Mary Oliver grief poetry Michael J. Morris 

Marika Heinrichs (she/her) is a cis queer femme of (Soviet) German, British, and Irish ancestry who believes that reconnecting with the wisdom of our bodies is vital to ending systems of domination and supremacy. She has practiced as a somatic therapist and educator within social movement spaces for over a decade, trained in the lineages of generative somatics (gs), Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy (BCST), Focusing, and NeuroAffective Touch and is currently a PhD candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies.  In this episode, Eryn and Marika talk about: <ul> <li>Marika’s journey with healing &amp; somatics coming from a community organizing background</li> <li>Trauma, justice and somatics as inherently in relationship</li> <li>Accessing states of liberation, imagination and possibility through the body</li> <li>What happens when we drop into connection and spaciousness</li> <li>Trauma responses to systems of oppression and domination</li> <li>Finding spaces where there is the opportunity to access some safety so we can soften and connect</li> <li>Safety as shades of gray and not as a binary and the absence of discomfort</li> <li>Respecting and honoring the ways bodies and nervous systems are designed</li> <li>Christian supremacy culture infusing and shaping radical spaces and organizing communities</li> <li>A practice of being in deep reverence and relationship with lineage</li> <li>Somatics as inherently politicized and radical</li> <li>Appropriating our own lineages</li> <li>Holding grief when it’s pathologized and we’re disconnected from our cultural practices and ritual around grief</li> <li>Doing what we don’t know how to do</li> </ul> Blog for this episode: <a href="http://www.living-open.com/blog/marika-heinrichs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.living-open.com/blog/marika-heinrichs</a> Connect with Eryn on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/erynj_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. <a href="https://www.living-open.com/religious-trauma-workbook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Get a copy of the Religious Trauma Workbook</a>. Connect with Marika on <a href="https://wildbody.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">her website</a> and on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wildbodysomatics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>. Mentioned in this episode:  <ul> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60970.A_Language_Older_Than_Words" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">A Language Older than Words by Derrick Jensen</a></li> <li><a href="https://generativesomatics.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Generative Somatics</a></li> <li><a href="https://paulkivel.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Paul Kivel</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/therootcircle/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Lisa Fazio @therootcircle</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.readpoetry.com/mary-oliver-poems-for-grieving-hearts/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Oliver grief poetry</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.michaeljmorris.co/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Michael J. Morris</a></li> </ul>