About Supporting Activism, Service, Community
Do you identify as a social activist? Artivist? Culture Worker? Frontline healthcare worker? Public service provider? Community builder?
I’ve worn many of a few these hats in my fifty-plus years of life.
In the USA and the UK (both places which have been home to me), we are rooted in a tiring, extractive industrial culture which dominates our organizations and how we work-live together. We inadvertently end up re-creating toxic dynamics and cultures within our organizations and communities, in part because these dynamics and cultures are deeply embedded within us. They literally shape us – sculpting curves into our shoulders, compressing our ribs, shortening our backs, tightening our jaws, stiffening our necks and defining the ways we walk and turn. We shrink, trip up and find our vision obscured with brain fog. We increasingly lack self-awareness. We get irritable, reactive and impatient. We lose the best of ourselves.
Our relationships suffer. Our work suffers.
We burn out. We give up. We think about leaving the work which once was getting us up every morning, feeling dedicated and passionate.
I teach The Feldenkrais Method® with an intent disrupt this experience from the inside-out. I believe we can expand our capacity to create necessary cultural, systemic and structural shifts externally by experiencing them internally.
I would be honored and consider it a privilege to serve and support you who are in service to our collective well-being. I work with individuals, groups and organizations. On request, I will facilitate BIPOC only classes.
“Veena is a consummate somatic educator, leading her students with clear and gentle guidance through the discovery of their own bodies' stories. As a story worker, as someone engaged with embodied process in creativity, I believe she would be a fabulous resource for community-based activists and cultural workers wanting to explore Feldenkrais methods as a component of their organizing or educational efforts.”
Joe Lambert, Founder, StoryCenter
Joe Lambert, Founder, StoryCenter
“Veena, your leadership and guidance and flexibility through this process allowed my body to both consciously and subconsciously feel safe, allow for learning, connection, rest, and healing. This space is so vital for organizers in our BIPOC communities to center themselves for moments of pleasure, rest, and healing! I feel more connected to the multitudes within me and better able to support the movements that animate me. Grateful to Veena for holding such a warm, compassionate, introspective, and, most importantly, safe space.”
Ever Galván - Californians for Justice
Ever Galván - Californians for Justice