Lucién Demaris's guest appearances

Lucién Demaris

Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)

Sarah Sophie Flicker

Roshi Joan Halifax

Stacey Abrams

Alice Wong

Phillip Agnew

Kazu Haga

Alicia Garza

Katie Loncke

Nora Samaran

Serena Lukas Bhandar

Tricia Hersey

Amita Swadhin

Fhatima Paulino

Prentis Hemphill

Staci K. Haines

OwlTail

This practice is a Somatic Check-In to feel one another's pulse and breath, and experience the possibility for awareness of co-regulation of our social engagement systems. It is simple and intimate, and can be practiced in a pair or group of 3 - it's good for a room to do together, divided intro groups of 2 or 3 (more people = more support). It involves watching the breath move in one another's bodies, and touch of the hands and wrists, so it's important to get consent for that level of closeness before beginning. You can also listen through and practice noticing your own breathing and pulse to get oriented before deciding if and how to share it. This practice is part of a set of corresponding conversations and practices that also include Season 1's episode 20 (Relational Culture &amp; Undoing Individualism) and episode 32 (Bridging Complexity Collectively). ----- Welcome to Book Club! 📚 Welcome to our new gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. Our first selection is Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Get your copy now from our partners at AK Press with code PODCAST for 15% off! www.akpress.org Join Book Club at any reward level $10 &amp; up on our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice to get members-only access to a 30% off discount code at AK Press, a discussion guide for hosting your own gathering around this book, and be invited to a virtual hangout with adrienne, Amita, and Monique Tula this summer to talk further about Pleasure Activism. And check out our Community level, Reciprocity level for practitioners, Redistribution level where we share 15% of money raised with less visible less resourced frontline healing justice groups, and our Donor Circle level on Patreon too. Every membership tier above $10 includes Book Club. See you there! xo ----------- ABOUT OUR GUEST: Lucién Demaris is a Somatics-based healer, educator and consultant, training in the US and internationally for the last 15 years. Lucién is formally trained as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner of Somatic Education, a California Licensed Acupuncturist and a Nationally Certified Bodyworker. Lucien identifies as mestizo and is from Ecuador. Relational Uprising, the organization of which Lucién is a part, is a training and coaching institute that supports social movements to foster a relational culture of embodied support, interdependence, and inclusion in their organizations and communities. Learn more and apply for their trainings at http://www.relationaluprising.org ----------- CORRESPONDING CONVERSATION EPISODE: Last week, we talked Relational Somatics with Lucién. I love listening to how Lucién perceives and understands the world in such an insightful web of relationship and interaction -- our bodies in relation to one another and the ecology as the foundational way we co-regulate. This understanding of somatics as relational is an important and unique offer in that way, challenging the idea of self-mastery and replacing it with an invitation for ways we can all be tuning in more closely in mutual support. Check out the previous episode to listen in to that conversation, and SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW this podcast to make sure you don't miss future juicy conversations &amp; practices! ----------- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for our email list to receive a free healing justice zine &amp; resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org Join our virtual community at http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice  Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, &amp; @hjpodcast on Twitter  ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, &amp; review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at www.patreon.com/healingjustice  You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb ----------- Thank you to our incredible production volunteers on this episode: Sonja Hanson for audio editing and production, Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering, and Josiah Werning for graphic design.

This practice is a Somatic Check-In to feel one another's pulse and breath, and experience the possibility for awareness of co-regulation of our social engagement systems. It is simple and intimate, and can be practiced in a pair or group of 3 - it's good for a room to do together, divided intro groups of 2 or 3 (more people = more support). It involves watching the breath move in one another's bodies, and touch of the hands and wrists, so it's important to get consent for that level of closeness before beginning. You can also listen through and practice noticing your own breathing and pulse to get oriented before deciding if and how to share it. This practice is part of a set of corresponding conversations and practices that also include Season 1's episode 20 (Relational Culture &amp; Undoing Individualism) and episode 32 (Bridging Complexity Collectively). ----- Welcome to Book Club! 📚 Welcome to our new gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. Our first selection is Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Get your copy now from our partners at AK Press with code PODCAST for 15% off! <a href="http://www.akpress.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.akpress.org</a> Join Book Club at any reward level $10 &amp; up on our Patreon at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice</a> to get members-only access to a 30% off discount code at AK Press, a discussion guide for hosting your own gathering around this book, and be invited to a virtual hangout with adrienne, Amita, and Monique Tula this summer to talk further about Pleasure Activism. And check out our Community level, Reciprocity level for practitioners, Redistribution level where we share 15% of money raised with less visible less resourced frontline healing justice groups, and our Donor Circle level on Patreon too. Every membership tier above $10 includes Book Club. See you there! xo ----------- ABOUT OUR GUEST: Lucién Demaris is a Somatics-based healer, educator and consultant, training in the US and internationally for the last 15 years. Lucién is formally trained as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner of Somatic Education, a California Licensed Acupuncturist and a Nationally Certified Bodyworker. Lucien identifies as mestizo and is from Ecuador. Relational Uprising, the organization of which Lucién is a part, is a training and coaching institute that supports social movements to foster a relational culture of embodied support, interdependence, and inclusion in their organizations and communities. Learn more and apply for their trainings at <a href="http://www.relationaluprising.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.relationaluprising.org</a> ----------- CORRESPONDING CONVERSATION EPISODE: Last week, we talked Relational Somatics with Lucién. I love listening to how Lucién perceives and understands the world in such an insightful web of relationship and interaction -- our bodies in relation to one another and the ecology as the foundational way we co-regulate. This understanding of somatics as relational is an important and unique offer in that way, challenging the idea of self-mastery and replacing it with an invitation for ways we can all be tuning in more closely in mutual support. Check out the previous episode to listen in to that conversation, and SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW this podcast to make sure you don't miss future juicy conversations &amp; practices! ----------- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for our email list to receive a free healing justice zine &amp; resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: <a href="http://www.healingjustice.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.healingjustice.org</a> Join our virtual community at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice</a> Talk with us on social media: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram @healingjustice</a>, <a href="http://fb.me/healingjusticepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook</a>, &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/hjpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@hjpodcast on Twitter</a> ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, &amp; review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/healingjustice</a> You can also give a one time donation here: <a href="https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb</a> ----------- Thank you to our incredible production volunteers on this episode: Sonja Hanson for audio editing and production, Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering, and Josiah Werning for graphic design.

37 Practice: Somatic Check-In (Feeling the Pulse) with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising

This week we are talk Relational Somatics with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising. I love listening to how Lucién perceives and understands the world in such an insightful web of relationship and interaction -- our bodies in relation to one another and the ecology as the foundational way we co-regulate. This understanding of somatics as relational is an important and unique offer in that way, challenging the idea of self-mastery and replacing it with an invitation for ways we can all be tuning in more closely in mutual support. You'll hear how our embodiment relates to our field of relationships with other humans, animals, and nature. This conversation is based on "Embodying," the second of the three pillars of Relational Uprising's work. To learn more about the first pillar, "Bonding," listen to episode 20 about resonance with Mark Fairfield. To learn about the third pillar, "Bridging," tune in to episode 32 where Lucién and Cedar Landsmen teach us about bridging and relational inclusion. This episode will totally make sense to you if you start listening here, but if you really want to build an understanding of their frameworks you may choose to listen to those other 2 episodes and practices first. ----- Welcome to Book Club! 📚 Welcome to our new gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. Our first selection is Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Get your copy now from our partners at AK Press with code PODCAST for 15% off! www.akpress.org Join Book Club at any reward level $10 &amp; up on our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice to get members-only access to a 30% off discount code at AK Press, a discussion guide for hosting your own gathering around this book, and be invited to a virtual hangout with adrienne, Amita, and Monique Tula this summer to talk further about Pleasure Activism. And check out our Community level, Reciprocity level for practitioners, Redistribution level where we share 15% of money raised with less visible less resourced frontline healing justice groups, and our Donor Circle level on Patreon too. Every membership tier above $10 includes Book Club. See you there! xo ----------- ABOUT OUR GUEST: Lucién Demaris is a Somatics-based healer, educator and consultant, training in the US and internationally for the last 15 years. Lucién is formally trained as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner of Somatic Education, a California Licensed Acupuncturist and a Nationally Certified Bodyworker. Lucien identifies as mestizo and is from Ecuador. Relational Uprising, the organization of which Lucién is a part, is a training and coaching institute that supports social movements to foster a relational culture of embodied support, interdependence, and inclusion in their organizations and communities. Learn more and apply for their trainings at http://www.relationaluprising.org ----------- PRACTICE: In the following episode (publishing next week), Lucién offers us a physical exercise to tune in to one another's breathing and pulse that they call a Somatic Check-In. It can be shared with a partner or in a group. Subscribe to this podcast to make sure you don't miss it. ----------- JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up for our email list to receive a free healing justice zine &amp; resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: http://www.healingjustice.org Join our virtual community at http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice  Talk with us on social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, &amp; @hjpodcast on Twitter  ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, &amp; review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at www.patreon.com/healingjustice  You can also give a one time donation here: https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb ----------- Thank you to our incredible production volunteers on this episode: Sonja Hanson for audio editing and production, Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering, and Josiah Werning for graphic design.

This week we are talk Relational Somatics with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising. I love listening to how Lucién perceives and understands the world in such an insightful web of relationship and interaction -- our bodies in relation to one another and the ecology as the foundational way we co-regulate. This understanding of somatics as relational is an important and unique offer in that way, challenging the idea of self-mastery and replacing it with an invitation for ways we can all be tuning in more closely in mutual support. You'll hear how our embodiment relates to our field of relationships with other humans, animals, and nature. This conversation is based on "Embodying," the second of the three pillars of Relational Uprising's work. To learn more about the first pillar, "Bonding," listen to episode 20 about resonance with Mark Fairfield. To learn about the third pillar, "Bridging," tune in to episode 32 where Lucién and Cedar Landsmen teach us about bridging and relational inclusion. This episode will totally make sense to you if you start listening here, but if you really want to build an understanding of their frameworks you may choose to listen to those other 2 episodes and practices first. ----- Welcome to Book Club! 📚 Welcome to our new gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. Our first selection is Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Get your copy now from our partners at AK Press with code PODCAST for 15% off! <a href="http://www.akpress.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.akpress.org</a> Join Book Club at any reward level $10 &amp; up on our Patreon at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice</a> to get members-only access to a 30% off discount code at AK Press, a discussion guide for hosting your own gathering around this book, and be invited to a virtual hangout with adrienne, Amita, and Monique Tula this summer to talk further about Pleasure Activism. And check out our Community level, Reciprocity level for practitioners, Redistribution level where we share 15% of money raised with less visible less resourced frontline healing justice groups, and our Donor Circle level on Patreon too. Every membership tier above $10 includes Book Club. See you there! xo ----------- ABOUT OUR GUEST: Lucién Demaris is a Somatics-based healer, educator and consultant, training in the US and internationally for the last 15 years. Lucién is formally trained as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner of Somatic Education, a California Licensed Acupuncturist and a Nationally Certified Bodyworker. Lucien identifies as mestizo and is from Ecuador. Relational Uprising, the organization of which Lucién is a part, is a training and coaching institute that supports social movements to foster a relational culture of embodied support, interdependence, and inclusion in their organizations and communities. Learn more and apply for their trainings at <a href="http://www.relationaluprising.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.relationaluprising.org</a> ----------- PRACTICE: In the following episode (publishing next week), Lucién offers us a physical exercise to tune in to one another's breathing and pulse that they call a Somatic Check-In. It can be shared with a partner or in a group. Subscribe to this podcast to make sure you don't miss it. ----------- JOIN THE CONVERSATION: Sign up for our email list to receive a free healing justice zine &amp; resources for your work and wellbeing. Sign up here: <a href="http://www.healingjustice.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.healingjustice.org</a> Join our virtual community at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice</a> Talk with us on social media: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram @healingjustice</a>, <a href="http://fb.me/healingjusticepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook</a>, &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/hjpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@hjpodcast on Twitter</a> ----------- SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Please follow / subscribe, rate, &amp; review in whatever app you are listening, and SHARE this resource with everyone you know who could benefit from it! Help us keep making this podcast by becoming a sustainer at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/healingjustice</a> You can also give a one time donation here: <a href="https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb</a> ----------- Thank you to our incredible production volunteers on this episode: Sonja Hanson for audio editing and production, Zach Meyer at the COALROOM for music and mastering, and Josiah Werning for graphic design.

37 Relational Somatics with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising

Cedar Landsman

This week, we’re talking with Lucién Demaris &amp; Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising about individualism as a system of oppression; “heroic” cultures of organizing; indigenous traditions of healing in Ecuador; repairing rupture, suspicion, and judgment; and bridging as a form of increasing our ability to hold complexity in our movements. Recommended listening that this episode builds upon: Episode 20: Relational Culture with Mark Fairfield. Download the corresponding practice (32 Practice: Relational Inclusion) to join Cedar in learning how to inquire appreciatively into what we may be inclined to judge, reject, exclude, dismiss, or devalue about another’s experience. We see what new information this brings to us, helping us to see beyond our own entrenched perspective. Practice episodes always publish on Thursdays. --- ✨ PODCAST NEWS ✨ Thank you to all of you who joined us last week in Detroit for Allied Media Conference! It was truly amazing to be there as a team.. Check out our Instagram @healingjustice &amp; Facebook ‘Healing Justice Podcast’ to get a glimpse of the action.  We also made a custom healing justice zine featuring the work of Autumn Brown, Maryse Mitchell Brody, Caitlin Metz, and Marcia Lee, so if you want access to the PDF so you can print one for yourself or a whole bunch for your community, join our email list at healingjustice.org and we’ll be sending that out soon! And if you’ll be at CommonBound in St. Louis this weekend (June 22-24), come join us for our workshop on Saturday morning: Healing Justice &amp; Economies of Collective Care, co-hosted with the local 4A Project. In a couple weeks we are beginning a summer break for reflection, restructuring, fundraising, and discernment. Will you let us know what you’ve loved, what you want more of, how you’ve used the practices, and how you want to show up in this community? As we head into a summer break for discernment and planning, we want to shape season 2 based on your input! Click here to take the survey and let us know your thoughts: https://goo.gl/forms/ykXYxg0iFq6pUxBF3 --- ABOUT OUR GUESTS Relational Uprising is a training and coaching institute that supports social movements to foster a relational culture of embodied support, interdependence, and inclusion in their organizations and communities. More at www.relationaluprising.org Cedar Landsman is a heart-centered community organizer, trainer and facilitator who has worked in the field of social justice for over 17 years, from the global justice movement to the low-wage labor movement to the fight for a just and fair food system. She co-founded and co-directs Relational Uprising, which brings relational practice and theory to changemakers, particularly activists and organizers engaged in frontline movement building. Lucién Demaris is a Somatics-based healer, educator and consultant, training in the US and internationally for the last 15 years. He currently serves as Co-Director at Relational Uprising, a project incubated at The Relational Center in Los Angeles, where he developed a Relational Somatics frame for activists. Lucién is formally trained as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner of Somatic Education, a California Licensed Acupuncturist and a Nationally Certified Bodyworker. ---  JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at www.healingjustice.org Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, &amp; @hjpodcast on Twitter This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice (and consider joining at $8/month or above to sponsor a gift for one of our brilliant guests or volunteers!). You can also give a one time gift here https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb  Please leave a positive rating &amp; review in whatever app you are listening - it all makes a difference!   THANK YOU to all our production volunteers: Content editing by Rachel Ishikawa Mixing and production by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

This week, we’re talking with Lucién Demaris &amp; Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising about individualism as a system of oppression; “heroic” cultures of organizing; indigenous traditions of healing in Ecuador; repairing rupture, suspicion, and judgment; and bridging as a form of increasing our ability to hold complexity in our movements. Recommended listening that this episode builds upon: Episode 20: Relational Culture with Mark Fairfield. Download the corresponding practice (32 Practice: Relational Inclusion) to join Cedar in learning how to inquire appreciatively into what we may be inclined to judge, reject, exclude, dismiss, or devalue about another’s experience. We see what new information this brings to us, helping us to see beyond our own entrenched perspective. Practice episodes always publish on Thursdays. --- ✨ PODCAST NEWS ✨ Thank you to all of you who joined us last week in Detroit for Allied Media Conference! It was truly amazing to be there as a team.. Check out our Instagram <a href="http://www.instagram.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@healingjustice</a> &amp; Facebook ‘Healing Justice Podcast’ to get a glimpse of the action. We also made a custom healing justice zine featuring the work of Autumn Brown, Maryse Mitchell Brody, Caitlin Metz, and Marcia Lee, so if you want access to the PDF so you can print one for yourself or a whole bunch for your community, join our email list at <a href="http://www.healingjustice.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">healingjustice.org</a> and we’ll be sending that out soon! And if you’ll be at CommonBound in St. Louis this weekend (June 22-24), come join us for our workshop on Saturday morning: Healing Justice &amp; Economies of Collective Care, co-hosted with the local <a href="https://www.facebook.com/the4aproject/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">4A Project</a>. In a couple weeks we are beginning a summer break for reflection, restructuring, fundraising, and discernment. Will you let us know what you’ve loved, what you want more of, how you’ve used the practices, and how you want to show up in this community? As we head into a summer break for discernment and planning, we want to shape season 2 based on your input! Click here to take the survey and let us know your thoughts: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/ykXYxg0iFq6pUxBF3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/forms/ykXYxg0iFq6pUxBF3</a> --- ABOUT OUR GUESTS Relational Uprising is a training and coaching institute that supports social movements to foster a relational culture of embodied support, interdependence, and inclusion in their organizations and communities. More at <a href="http://www.relationaluprising.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.relationaluprising.org</a> Cedar Landsman is a heart-centered community organizer, trainer and facilitator who has worked in the field of social justice for over 17 years, from the global justice movement to the low-wage labor movement to the fight for a just and fair food system. She co-founded and co-directs Relational Uprising, which brings relational practice and theory to changemakers, particularly activists and organizers engaged in frontline movement building. Lucién Demaris is a Somatics-based healer, educator and consultant, training in the US and internationally for the last 15 years. He currently serves as Co-Director at Relational Uprising, a project incubated at The Relational Center in Los Angeles, where he developed a Relational Somatics frame for activists. Lucién is formally trained as a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner of Somatic Education, a California Licensed Acupuncturist and a Nationally Certified Bodyworker. --- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at <a href="http://www.healingjustice.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.healingjustice.org</a> Social media: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram @healingjustice</a>, <a href="http://fb.me/healingjusticepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook</a>, &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/hjpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@hjpodcast on Twitter</a> This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/healingjustice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/healingjustice</a> (and consider joining at $8/month or above to sponsor a gift for one of our brilliant guests or volunteers!). You can also give a one time gift here <a href="https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=5ad90c0e03ce64d6028e01bb </a> Please leave a positive rating &amp; review in whatever app you are listening - it all makes a difference! THANK YOU to all our production volunteers: Content editing by Rachel Ishikawa Mixing and production by Zach Meyer at the <a href="http://www.coalroom-mke.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">COALROOM </a>Intro and Closing music gifted by <a href="http://www.hotdadlabs.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Danny O’Brien </a>All visuals contributed by <a href="http://josiah.art/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Josiah Werning</a>