online Workshops & Groups

Build Your Capacity for Intense as F*ck Times Practice Space

Beginner/ Intermediate/ Advanced

Drop-in practice space to practice with a teacher, be in community, and get coaching support to support you in your social justice work.

Weekly on:
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12-1 PM ET/ 9-10 AM PT
Sundays 8-9 PM ET/ 5-6 PM PT

These community sessions are open to all and are an opportunity to support your practice and deepen your somatic commitments in community. We are building this community of practice as a commitment to ongoing support for each other and our racial justice movements locally, nationally, and internationally.

Sessions may include a short somatic opening practice, a short partner practice, and some open space to bring whatever issues are on your body/mind/heart. Once you sign up, you will be added to the calendar invite. These practice spaces run on a sliding-scale drop-in or monthly membership fee that supports the teachers and coaches who hold the space and ERJ to run programs like this.

Sliding scale supports us to keep making practice available in a sustainable way:

Single sessions: $5-41 per session
Monthly pass: $41-$200 per month ($100/person/month the true cost per person)

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Online Workshops

Beginner/ Intermediate/ Advanced‍ ‍

Free online somatic practice sessions to support your capacity to meet this political moment

Periodically, we host free virtual workshops to support our community and introduce folks to somatics. No previous experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome.

Recent workshop topics include: Centered Accountability, Feeling Our Patterns Under Pressure, Holding Contradictions in this Movement Moment, and The Power of Practice: What is Possible in Community

This is where prospective students interested in an in-person course can come to receive answers to their questions. Embodying Racial Justice will share upcoming course calendars and related updates. We also build in time for community, connection, and practice. No previous experience is necessary.

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Online Supervision Group

Beginner/ Intermediate/ Advanced

Six-month embodied supervision group to support and grow you in community to bring somatic practices and frameworks out into the world.

Are you ready to bring somatics into your one-on-one and small group work? Do you need support with any of the following?

  • Integrating somatics into your work

  • Growing as an anti-racist and organizer

  • Workshopping issues that you encounter with clients 

  • Bringing somatics into community organizing and base-building contexts in ways that translate and resonate with people with no connection to somatic culture. 

  • Other

An ERJ supervision group may be a good fit for you. This six-month virtual program is for senior students and politicized somatics students looking to deepen their work. We’ll pair you with an experienced coach in a small group of approximately 4-6 students. Once a month, you’ll meet for 90 minutes to practice, learn, and problem solve. Each session will include a check-in and check-out as well as an opening and closing practice.

Questions? Schedule a call with Dara.

    • coaching and/or facilitating clients -  or on the path to do so

    • incorporating somatics into their organizing spaces - or on the path to do so

    • demoing some somatic practices with a teacher 

    • leading a coaching circle with a teacher’s support

    • supporting individual and small group clients 

    • seeking continued multi-directional racial justice somatic coaching, supervision, and accountability

    • Folks who complete advanced coursework, such as the ERJ year-long program

    • ERJ students who have completed coursework with other somatics institutions (such as generative somatics, the Strozzi Institute, The Embodiment Institute, BOLD, etc.) 

    • In other words, participants are senior students who are in social movement, changemaking and/or racial justice work

  • We will offer groups on a sliding scale to make them as accessible as possible.

    • $41-$80 per month

    • $81-$120 per month

    • $121-$200 per month ($175 / person/month represents the true cost per person)

    All of this only works if everyone pays at the level they are able - not at a level lower than what they can pay. Together, we can create financial balance when we each pay in alignment with our abilities. 

  • By joining, you are making a six-month commitment. We hope you will be able to attend each session and we understand that life happens and that may not always be possible. Please note that if you need to miss a month, the payment will still be due for that month.

    Our preference is to receive payments via Venmo or PayPal. 

    • Venmo: @dara-silverman or PayPal: dara@riseup.net - please use the friends and family payment method.

    • Check to Dara Silverman: 23 North Brett St. Beacon, NY 12508

    • You will have the option to pay in a lump sum or in monthly, biweekly or weekly installments.

    • Your monthly balance is due by the last day of the month. 

    • If you are making multiple payments, we ask you to set reminders for yourself and pay on the cadence you outline (monthly, biweekly or weekly.) 

  • In your application, you’ll choose from a list of times you could be available for a group. These times are a guide that is subject to change. The final group assignments and schedule will be distributed at a later date.

  • Dara Silverman and Cari Caldwell

  • If you need to miss a session, please discuss the potential of recording with your group and teacher ahead of time. That way, the group can be in choice and practice consent around recording.

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Check out our In-Person Courses.

  • "This course was a great way to reconnect with how I show up in the world as a white woman and how my allyship can be centered in my dignity."

    —Allison, Community Funder

  • "This course was one of the most impactful and transformative capacity-building experiences I’ve had. I’ve been in movement and healing spaces for 20 years, and this is what I’ve been longing for- Skillful integration of somatics and antiracist praxis."

    —Simon, Politicized Healer

  • "When I was first exposed to somatics, I was a little scared. I felt nervous talking about bodies. So if you are nervous I’ve been there. But the somatics courses are totally worth it. I see somatics as an investment in myself and my leadership. It helps me show up, meet this political moment, and be the parent I want to be."

    —T., Teacher

  • "This session rooted me in my humanity, connecting me to parts that had been severed, and deepened my sense of connection and interdependence. It helped me feel hope and possibility, which has empowered me to lean into my racial justice work with not only a more powerful commitment but also confidence that a new way is possible, even if I can't see the entire path. That confidence makes me more humble, rooted and bold in my work."

    –Jo, Teacher

  • "I'm so grateful for the way that I was able to learn and be stretched by Dara's workshop in ways that I hadn't known I needed. It especially challenged the ways that white supremacy culture has taught me to separate myself from my body, to the detriment of myself and those around me. Months later, I still find myself coming back to lessons learned in the workshop and putting them into practice both in the context of social justice and my day-to-day life. A specific takeaway that was big for me was that I can work to hold different, conflicting perspectives in the context of social justice work while still remaining settled and present in my body."

    –Hannah, Human RIghts Organizer

  • "Being part of the four day retreat challenges and supports me on personal and professional levels. I am learning to be in my body and to improve the depth and quality of my relationships with family and friends. As a white female educator working in a diverse school system, the somatic practices I am learning are helping me see opportunities to transform power dynamics in my school and to be in relationship with educators and students of color with greater accountability and authenticity."

    –Sarah, Educator

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Questions?

Schedule a brief call with Dara Silverman to talk about your needs. 
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