Somatic Healing & Coaching

There are many resources out there for somatic transformation. These are selections from my teachers and influences that I highly recommend.

• Richard Strozzi-Heckler - The Art of Somatic Coaching; Leadership Dojo; Anatomy of Change (books); “7 Days of Embodied Living” (video series)

• Staci K. Haines - The Politics of Trauma (book and course); “The Transformative Power of Practice” (essay)

• Lewis Mehl Madrona - Coyote Healing; Coyote Medicine; Coyote Wisdom (books); The Spirit of Healing (audiobook)

• Prentis Hemphill - What It Takes To Heal (book); Breaking Out of “Control Mode” (podcast); Finding Our Way (esp. episodes with Sonya Renee Taylor and adrienne maree brown)

• Peter Levine - Waking The Tiger; In An Unspoken Voice; Trauma-Proofing Your Kids; Healing Trauma (books)

• Resmaa Menakem - My Grandmother’s Hands; Monsters in Love (books)

• Eduardo Duran - Healing The Soul Wound (book)

• Bessel van der Kolk - The Body Keeps The Score (book)

• adrienne maree brown - Emergent Strategy; Pleasure Activism (books); “What Your Body Has To Do With Social Change”; “Relinquishing The Patriarchy” (essays)

• Susan Raffo - Liberated to the Bone (book)

Context

The following resources have informed my worldview and the context in which I view healing and change.

• Miki Kashtan - “The Power of the Soft Qualities to Transform Patriarchy”, “The Radical Implications of Staying Within Capacity”, “Needs Choreography and Mutual Influencing”, “Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed”, “What’s Mine To Do?”, “A Love Letter To My Brothers” (essays); “Living a Gift Economy in an Exchange World” (video)

• Vanessa Andreotti - Hospicing Modernity (book)

• Dean Spade - Love in a F**ked Up World (book)

• Bayo Akomolafe - “Why We Need Postactivism Today”; “Where to Go” (videos)

• Carol Gillian - Why Does Patriarchy Persist? (book)

• bell hooks - The Will to Change (book)

• Eli Clare - Brilliant Imperfection (book)

• Tema Okun - “White Supremacy Culture Characteristics” (essay)

• Tricia Hersey - Rest is Resistance (book)

• Charles Eisenstein - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible; Sacred Economics (books)

• Tyson Yunkaporta - Sand Talk (book)