I started working as a somatic practitioner because I spent years in organizing and liberatory movement spaces facing the same heartbreak:
We gathered around shared values, but those values rarely showed up in how we related to one another.
Tension, ego conflict, shame spirals... some of those spaces felt worse than a job. At least my corporate job paid rent.
We had beautiful ideas—but they stayed in our heads. They weren’t what I call “French-pressed” into the body. They weren’t embodied.
It drove out the most sensitive, responsible, and brilliant among us—leaving behind structures that felt patriarchal and ego-driven.
Why were we organizing toward liberation if we kept recreating the systems we wanted to abolish?
The answer I’ve found is this:
We recreate systems of domination in our most intimate spaces because those systems live inside us.
If trauma happens to the body, healing has to happen there too.
It lives in our tissues.
It shapes how we breathe, talk, walk into a room, handle conflict, give love.
So our liberation? It has to be embodied.
That’s the heart of my work. Bridging that gap.
So.
I am very grateful to be able to learn from so many different people, but I have to say: too many of them were white, cis (male), able-bodied, and they were definitely not politicized enough.
So, I am very happy to present to you the guest speakers this year.
Liberation Practice Field is the only program in which ALL speakers are Black, Brown (and most of them are queer/trans).
PS: The 10-month installment plans are only available until November 16 (TOMORROWW)!!!!
If you join after that, you’ll need to make your first two payments upfront to get caught up.
Deepa Iyer
Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, lawyer, and strategist.
Over the past two decades, she has led and shaped programs focused on racial and immigrant justice, community building, and solidarity.
She’s the founding host of the Solidarity Is This podcast and the author of three books, We Too Sing America; Social Change Now; and We Are The Builders!
TOPIC: Strengthening Our Social Change Roles
Monday, November 10 — 2:30pm CET (8:30am ET) —> It already happened but you’ll have access to the replay !!!
How can we anchor our social change roles to serve the causes and communities that are important to us?
This workshop will introduce us to the Social Change Ecosystem framework, created by Deepa, and help us figure out the roles each of us embody for this iteration of our collective liberation.
You’ll connect with folks who have the same role as you and find ways to sustain yourself within those roles.
Sonalee Rashatwar
Sonalee Rashatwar, LCSW M.Ed. (he-they) is an award-winning clinical social worker, sex therapist, adjunct lecturer, and grassroots organizer.
Based in Philly (licensed in PA), they are a superfat queer bisexual non-binary therapist and co-owner of Radical Therapy Center, specialized in treating sexual trauma, diet trauma, racial or immigrant trauma, and South Asian family abuse, while offering fat positive sexual healthcare.
TOPIC: Fatphobia as In-Bodied Fascism
Monday, December 15 — 6pm CET (12pm ET)
How did we become convinced there was one right way to have a good body?
This session will explore the anti-Black origins of fatphobia and how current diet & wellness cultures pipeline back to the white supremacist moralism they started in.
Dr. charlie amáyá scott
Dr charlie amáyá scott, Ph.D. (she/they) is dedicated to creating and sharing content that inspires joy and justice.
She has worked with brands and organizations around climate justice, celebrating her culture and language, advocating and supporting movements that center or affect Black and Indigenous Queer and Trans Peoples, and sharing knowledge around Indigenous Peoples, gender and sexuality, decolonization, higher education, representation, and more.
TOPIC: Intergenerational Becomings: Gendered Dialogues with Ourselves and Ancestors
Monday, February 16 — 6pm CET (12pm ET)
Dr. amáyá offers us an experience about our intergenerational becomings, sharing how our ancestors influence who we are. She shares, “My womanhood is an intergenerational gift from my mother, and her mother, etc.”
Richie Reseda
Richie Reseda practices transformative justice in his relationships and daily life. He is a formerly-incarcerated music and film producer, content creator, organizer, and creative director. He produced the feature film, SONGS FROM THE HOLE. He co-created and co-hosted the Spotify Original podcast Abolition X, and creative-directs for The For Everyone Collective.
While in prison he started the worker-owned media collective Question Culture, and co-founded Success Stories, the feminist-accountability program chronicled in the CNN documentary, “The Feminist on Cell Block Y.”
TOPIC: The Power of Connection
Thursday, April 16 — 5pm CEST (11am ET)
People always say focus on your relationships to defeat the system, build community to beat fascism... but what does that mean for real?
Richie leads a discussion on real life tools and outcomes of those tools when we center our relationships and build community accountability, infrastructure, and integrity.
Sonya Renee Taylor
TOPIC: TBD !
Thursday, January 22 — 6pm CET (12pm ET)
Sonya Renee Taylor is a New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation and transformational change, international award winning artist, and founder of The Body Is Not an Apology (TBINAA), a global digital media and education company exploring the intersections of identity, healing, and social justice through the framework of radical self-love.
Ericka Hart
TOPIC: TBD!
MARCH 16, 2026 - 6PM CET / 1PM EDT
Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
TOPIC: TBD!
Thursday, July 23 — 6pm CEST (12pm ET)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (she/they) is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice.
She is the renowned author of multiple books, including Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals and Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Kai Cheng Thom
TOPIC: TBD!
Thursday, August 20 — 5pm CEST (11am ET)
Kai Cheng Thom, M.Sc. (she/her) is a somatically trained coach, consultant, and conflict resolution practitioner working at the intersection of mind, body, and collective soul.
She is also an internationally published, award-winning author and the developer of the Loving Justice methodology.
Lama Rod Owens
TOPIC: TBD !
DATE: TBD!
Lama Rod is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen and an international influencer with a Master of Divinity degree in Buddhist Studies from Harvard Divinity School with a focus on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice.
Author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger and co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.
Highly sought after for talks, retreats, and workshops, his mission is showing you how to heal and free yourself.
You have until tomorrow to join with the 10-month payment plan !!
See you on the field,
Care
Hi! I'm wondering if there's a way to pay to attend just one of the sessions?