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The Somatics of Resistance and Resilience
June 24 @ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
The Somatics of Resistance and Resilience with Lux Gypsum
Tuesday June 24, 2025
- Pacific time: 10am-12pm
- Mountain time: 11am-1pm
- Central time: 12pm-2pm
- Eastern time: 1pm-3pm
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This event is a part of the Liberation Learning Series which runs bi-weekly on Tuesdays from June 10 to September 30, 2025.
Learn to work with your nervous system through practical, easy-to-understand teachings and embodied practices that will build your capacity to act rather than react.
About the event
Learn to work with your nervous system as a form of embodied resistance.
There’s a lot happening in the world right now that can leave us feeling overwhelmed, angry, and afraid. When we’re in these activated states, it is easy for us to take frantic action without strategy or turn on each other and fracture our communities – which ultimately serves the systems we are trying to transform.
During these times of uncertainty, one of the most important skills we can cultivate is the ability to work with our nervous system rather than against it—so we can show up with presence, power, and connection.
As activist and embodiment teacher Prentis Hemphill says: “A relaxed body is the most powerful body that you have… because a relaxed body can choose what to do.”
Accessing more relaxed states doesn’t require toxic positivity, avoidance, or keeping calm at all times by suppressing our reactions. We actually become more relaxed when we learn to listen to our impulses and let them out in the right containers.
In this workshop, you will learn how to listen to and support your nervous system to prepare you to navigate activation on both small and large scales—whether you’re in a conflict or facing collective crisis.
The format of this offering will be very experiential, combining practical nervous system education with embodied practices, group discussions, and small group exercises.
In this session, you will:
- Expand your understanding of the different nervous system threat responses & how they relate to power and oppression
- Explore embodied ways to express activation
- learn practices to deactivate your nervous system & return to the present
- Build awareness of your body & its nervous system cues
- Leave with practical tools to support and care for your nervous system while you work to transform our economic and political systems
About your presenter
Lux Gypsum
Lux Gypsum (all pronouns) is a queer, non-binary politicized healer and cultural visionary. In their workshops, talks, and client work, Lux focuses on conflict transformation, authentic expression, somatic trauma resolution, and growing our skills to create resilient, purpose-oriented communities. For over 9 years, Lux has honed their capacity to skillfully hold potent group containers for learning and healing. In addition to facilitating community workshops and events, Lux is also a Somatic Connection Coach, Conflict Mediator, and Community Consultant, supporting individuals, couples, and groups to embody the world they long for. Lux is trauma-informed and committed to uprooting supremacy culture in all their work, imperfectly. You can check out Lux’s work at www.healingrising.com/somatic-coaching and stay connected on Instagram @healing.rising.
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