Unbodying Supremacy, Weaving Connection: A Six-Month Embodied Journey
Are you ready to unbind your body and mind from the conditioning of supremacy culture and reclaim a deeper sense of connection, authenticity, and belonging?
Join Amber Arnold, Em Megas-Russell, and Lis Newell for a transformative six-month journey of unlearning, healing, and embodied liberation. Through community care, ritual, and somatic practices, we will engage in the deep work of releasing conditioned patterns of white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and other systems of oppression that have shaped our identities, relationships, and ways of being. This journey will empower you to build embodied skills to navigate conflict, set boundaries, and engage in values-aligned conversations; reclaim pleasure, joy, and sensuality as tools for liberation; cultivate self-trust and confidence in navigating social dynamics and power structures; and integrate somatic anti-oppression work into personal and professional spaces, strengthening your sense of belonging within a supportive community.
This program is for you if you want to:
- Recognize how supremacy culture lives in your body and relationships.
- Build somatic skills for navigating conflict and setting boundaries.
- Reclaim pleasure, joy, and sensuality as acts of liberation.
- Cultivate self-trust and confidence in complex social dynamics.
- Integrate anti-oppression work into personal and professional spaces.
Over six months, you’ll engage in 6 immersive in-person weekends, 6 virtual sessions, and curated accountability partnerships, supported by a rich online learning hub.
What’s Possible in Six Months?
✨ Feel more grounded and embodied in conversations around power, race, and identity.
✨ Navigate conflict and accountability without spiraling into shame.
✨ Sustain anti-oppression work without feeling overwhelmed.
✨ Build deeper, more authentic relationships with self and community.
This is your opportunity to break free from the constraints of supremacy culture, reclaim your body’s wisdom, and step into embodied liberation.
What you will learn
By the end of this six-month journey, you’ll have the foundational skills and opportunities to cultivate and continue practicing lasting change. Here’s what you can begin to build as you integrate the practices and principles into your life:
- Somatic Tools for Conflict & Boundaries: You’ll develop practices to help you navigate power dynamics, set boundaries with more ease, and stay grounded during challenging conversations.
- A Personalized Somatic Liberation Practice: Through the UNBODYING Method, you’ll gain access to tools that will support you in dismantling supremacy culture and building a deeper connection with your body’s wisdom.
- Increased Resilience and Confidence: As you deepen your embodied practice, you’ll have the opportunity to build the resilience to face difficult situations with more self-trust and clarity, and to develop confidence in navigating the complexities of social dynamics.
- Pleasure, Joy, and Sensuality as Acts of Liberation: You’ll explore how to reclaim these embodied practices, giving you opportunities to use them as pathways for personal and collective liberation.
- A Healing Community: You’ll have access to a supportive, accountable community where you can practice and share your growth, helping you stay aligned with your transformation and building deeper connections with others.
- A Framework for Regenerating Safety: Through somatic techniques, you will build more tools and practices to help regenerate safety from the inside out, so your body can begin to feel like a safer home.
While the tools and practices you’ll receive are deeply transformative, it’s your commitment to using them that will allow you to move closer to the embodiment of resilience, liberation, and authentic belonging.
Curriculum
Your Facilitators
Amber Skye Arnold (She/Her)
Amber Arnold is a Black multiracial Black Womanist somatic and embodiment coach, ritualist, herbalist, sound healer, and artist. She is the founder of Queen of Belonging, a sacred space for reclaiming Queen B energy, and the co-founder of SUSU commUNITY Farm, a 37-acre afroindigenous farm located on unceded Wabanaki lands. Amber guides individuals back to their bodies through embodied questions, not answers, using ritual, vibration, movement, and flow to spark curiosity, play, and exploration. She helps people navigate what it means to find safety, dignity, and belonging in their bodies and communities, especially in these transformative times.
Lis J. Newell (They/She)
Lis J. Newell is a somatic trauma therapist and bodywork practitioner with over 25 years of experience helping individuals heal, transform, and grow through the overwhelming experiences they’ve endured. Specializing in trauma transformation (especially traumas stemming from misygyny/rape culture), group healing, and unbinding from the impacts of systemic oppression, Lis uses a body-based, energetic, and neurobiological approach, along with meaningful rituals and herbalism, to help clients and group participants learn to trust and reclaim the inherent wisdom of their bodies. With a deep commitment to care and community, particularly the liberation of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community, they create a space for anything and everything that is present within someone’s process to be respected. Lis’ work is rooted in the belief that if we can heal together we can create futures void of supremacy and capitalism conditioning… futures of interdependence, joy, and freedom. More about Lis here.
Em Megas-Russell (She/They)
Em is a somatic psychotherapist, ritualist, and community weaver who is deeply committed to supporting individuals in unbinding from internalized oppression and the impacts of societal, ancestral, and personal trauma. With a focus on cultivating safety, trust, and aliveness, Em works to help clients access deeper intuition, pleasure, and connection in their lives and relationships. Guided by a vision of collective liberation, Em creates generative spaces for healing and belonging, integrating somatics, mindfulness, and social justice practices. Em is also passionate about creating inclusive, affirming spaces for people of all identities, and works with individuals of diverse backgrounds and experiences to foster liberation and transformation.