My colleague Hollie Ruth and I are offering no-cost, in-person community healings in Los Angeles as an exercise in creating group safety and relating, of utilizing more collective energy than the binary of practitioner-client, of finding new dynamics and systems of support, assistance, resistance and togetherness.

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Inspired by the immense power of community togetherness that is known, felt and exemplified through indigenous wisdom, this free community healing practice attempts to disrupt the isolating structure of 1:1 (often virtual) therapeutic healing and compartmentalization of this disjointed geographic maze of Los Angeles we find ourselves in, and provide a safe, in-person communal space for the cultivation of new-old emergent ways of being together and being in this world.​

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Together we navigate discomfort, vulnerability, lightness, darkness, murkiness, windows, walls, overwhelm, numbness, ecstasy and relief. We create a map of connections between our bodies and discover wholeness both inside ourselves and with each other. This is an attempt to ground community back into a physical space, back into the body. Your body. Our bodies.

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In a new network-culture that exists primarily online, on screens, interfacing in isolation, we ask:

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What does it mean to invite Otherness to collaborate?

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And,

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What are we risking both with and without it?