Embody a Book Club
with Sarah Stout 
Embody a Book Club
with Sarah Stout
with Sarah Stout
ONLINE
April 28 (Monday)
at 10:15 am (GMT-06:00)
Class length
90 minutes
Location
StudioNia Santa Fe
Embody a Book Club, books about more fully inhabiting our beautiful bodies in our rapidly changing world.
Inspiring meaning, change and action through reading, discussing, and learning helpful somatic practice.
We are meeting in curiosity and loving invitation, no expectation.
Our first book is My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to mending Our Hearts and Bodies By Resmaaa Menakem
10:15-11:45 on Mondays: April 28th; May 12th; and May19th
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER - “My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility
“In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police.
My Grandmother's Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide. …[The book] offers a step-by-step healing process based on the latest neuroscience and somatic healing methods, in addition to incisive social commentary.”
resmaa.com “Dr Resmaa Menakem is a therapist and trauma specialist who activates the wisdom of elders.He is the leading voice on radicalized trauma and the creator of Somatic Abolitionism, which utilizes the body and its natural resilience as mechanisms for healing radicalized trauma.”
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Sarah Stout is descended from third to ninth generation European, English, and Scottish and Scandinavian settlers who came to Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Missouri. With all their strengths, many, no doubt, knew Indigenous eradication and slavery. Sarah and her lineage have benefitted enormously from the privilege of the skin color, which enabled ancestry to buy houses, live where they wanted, and get jobs where they wanted.
Sarah fully acknowledges the bubble of privilege in which she lives and views the world. “I’m embracing the honesty, safety, and eloquence of Your Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem, to once again shake me more awake from the complacency of the bubble in which I live and breathe.”
Although we could easily spend months on this book alone, we’ll meet three sessions, one for each part of the book, to love and learn with each other. We will practice the somatic exercises and move.
The “book club” will meet 10:15-11:45 on Mondays: April 28th (part 1); May12th (part 2); and May 19th (part 3). If there is enough interest, we will have an in-person 3 session group that will start after the zoom group has fully launched. Let Kelle or Sarah know immediately if you prefer in-person.
Free copies are available through the library, including Libby and Hoopla; and on Spotify Premium.
Although there is no cost for the book club, heart donations are welcome. Registration is in punchpass. Although registration is for the 3 classes, and attendance is encouraged, attend as you can.
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