Queerly Beloved

Weekend long retreat for queer, trans, and BIPOC organizers and cultural workers to get respite and resource to fuel their work

What are the forces shaping us as queer and trans people in this time? How can we shape them back? What does embodied practice and personal transformation have to do with collective liberation?

In this group, we have the opportunity to learn off of different bodies, histories, and commitments and benefit from the wisdom of embodied collective healing. We will engage in somatic practice, dialogue, relational work, and skill building as fuel for our work outside of the space. These practices are meant to bring more agency, freedom, connection, pleasure, and power into our lives and communities.

Our conditions of satisfaction for the space include:

- You feel resourced by being in a collective, in-person space with more expansive time for deepening

- You explore the relational parts of somatic practice

- Your continued practice outside of the space (online, solo etc) is supported

- You have more ease in returning to a sense of embodied safety and joy in yourself as part of our wider queer and trans communities.

Some of the specific practices in the space include:

- Jo Kata

- Centering in Commitments

- God is Change: Center in Transition

- Somatic Bodywork

This course will be taught by Yashna Padamsee, Eliana Rubin, and a special guest teacher!

Please fill out the application below by June 18th — we will inform you of your application status by early-July.