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Danielle has been a community organizer since 1999, including with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice and Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, a core partner of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Danielle has been a gs student since 2012, and in Teacher Training since 2016.

Dona is a queer, white, immigrant Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Trauma-Recovery coach practicing politicized liberation therapy with individuals & relationships. She specializes in resourcing outsiders, immigrants, LGBTQI folk, social justice activists/artists, & other resilient survivors.

Southern born, Queer, Black, Bay Area based somatic healer, awakener, bodyworker, ritualist, & song weaver. Skillful focus in healing from the impacts of racialized trauma, gender oppression, & sexual violence. Her practice is inspired by gs methodology, Ayurveda, and Earth-based Wisdom Traditions.

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Ream is a GS practitioner, meditation teacher and labor organizer alongside domestic workers, bringing twenty years of movement building experience to their practice. They sit on the leadership board of the East Bay Meditation Center and is a graduate of Spirit Rock’s Dedicated Practitoner Program.

Anjuli is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, hypnotherapist and somatic coach providing individual & group therapy, specializing in trauma recovery, emotional regulation, resilience-building and cultivating joy.

She is also a trainer/teacher and offers consultation for clinician and coaches interested in somatics, internal family systems, group work, and energy psychology. Since 2005 her practice has been working primarily with Immigrant, South Asian, Middle Eastern, POC, Muslim & LGBTQI populations. Joyous Resilience her award winning book offers an intersectional guide for clients and practitioners interested in cultivating resilience and individual and collective trauma healing that centers BIPOC experiences.

Phone: 5102771789

Website: www.anjulisherinmft.com

Email:asherinlmft@gmail.com

Remote Clients: Yes

Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu

Book: Joyous Resilience (An intersectional path to building resilience and joy)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645674/joyous-resilience-by-anjuli-sherin/

Free Tools: 9 Resilience meditations at: https://www.anjulisherinmft.com/meditations.html

Role at gs: somatic therapist, consultation, private practice

Dr. Vanissar Tarakali, PhD, gs practitioner for 10 years. I support the resilience of activists, healers & educators, especially those who embody & bridge contradictions of identity & community. My work is grounded in decades of bodywork, social/racial justice & spiritual/neurodivergent practice.

I am a Diné queer person and I live in Toronto. I use drama therapy and somatic bodywork to move individuals through a process of embodied transformation using conversation, touch, breath, gesture, imagination, theatre practices, and new somatic practices. I have been studying somatics since 2006.

Please see website for bio

Jacks McNamara is a trauma healing coach, artist, organizer & facilitator. Their practice centers queer & trans activists and cultural workers. Jacks offers workshops & consults on topics ranging from queer mental health & challenging white supremacy to trauma-informed care & overcoming burn-out.

Kira Banks has been involved with GS since 2015 and has worked to support individuals and groups in understanding themselves and systems of oppression for over 20 years. Her work is rooted in Black Psychology, which uplifts resilience and rejects deficit approaches.

Since 2014, Hilary has taught with generative somatics. She also works on the national Leadership Team with Showing Up for Racial Justice and has deep commitments to Climate Justice. Based in Berlin, Germany, Hilary holds in-person and remote sessions, sliding scale based upon need.

I have been working with clients for seven years. My philosophy: we are whole. The more we are aligned with our truth, the better the world is.

I have trained with gs and SI since 2012 and also have an MA in Somatic Psychology. I employ a systems-oriented, relational, and trauma-informed approach to my work that blends gs methodology and psychotherapy. QTBIPOC centered healing practice.

Briana Herman-Brand, MSW, has worked for the past 18 years with youth and adults to heal and transform dynamics of trauma and oppression. She has focused in fields of domestic & sexual violence, youth liberation, white anti-racism, LGBTQ experience, transformative justice, and community organizing.

“I am a Certified Master Somatic Coach and work primarily with social activists, business leaders, queer, trans and non-binary folks, polyamorous individuals and couples, and all survivors of trauma in my office in Oakland, CA, as well as remotely.”

Sumitra Rajkumar is a somatics practitioner, teacher and organization coach who lives in Brooklyn, New York. A longtime political educator for organizers and cultural workers, Sumitra has trained with generative somatics since 2011. She is writing her first novel. Inquiry via emails welcome.

Donaji integrates her indigenous ancestral legacy of interdependence, resilience, resistance, and community struggle to the organic process of transformation and integrates politicized somatics in her work with clients. In the field of somatics for over seven years.English and Spanish.

Natalíe Lorraine Ortega is a Somatic Practitioner. She is a mama, queer, cisgender, Latinx, sober, radical and spiritual. She is first generation, has an MSW, was raised in New York and is rooted in Oakland. She is hella committed to racial justice, young folks and all things woo.

Denise Benson, LMFT, is a therapist in private in Los Altos and San Francisco. She works with adults in a range of areas: from leadership development and to healing trauma. Denise is certified by Strozzi Institute as a Master Somatic Coach and has co-led “Somatics and Trauma” with Staci Haines.

Educator, organizer and healing practitioner living on stolen Duwamish land. Collaborating at the intersection of racial justice, food sovereignty, spirituality, and prison abolition. Committed to offering grounded healing spaces for embodied transformation. White, queer, femme, plant lover.

Elizabeth came to Somatics from the harm reduction movement. She has decades of experience working with trauma, addiction and is committed to healing and radical change. Elizabeth comes from an activist family targeted by the FBI and has a long history of justice organizing and collaboration.

Nathan Shara is a queer, South Asian trauma therapist and writer, and a lead teacher and practitioner with generative somatics. Nathan works in in Oakland, CA applying transformative justice principles through individual somatic work with survivors of violence and with people who have caused harm.

Liu Hoi-Man is an immigrant from Hong Kong. She had 20 years experience of working with children with developmental disabilities and anti- violence in the LGBTQ communities. She has been involved with generative somatics since 2004 and is one of the senior teachers for generative somatics.

Mahfam has been training with gs since 2011 & is a practitioner/coach, trainer/consultant, & gs teacher-in-training. With a varied background in justice movements, they bring a commitment to center LGBTQ, POC, sick & disabled, and otherwise marginalized populations. Sliding scale services offered.

Fayza Bundalli (she/her) is a cis queer femme of South Asian heritage. She is a mother, a teacher with Generative Somatics, and a somatic therapist and bodyworker. She is a settler living and practicing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories. She works primarily with folks who are queer and BIPOC

Lara is a queer, trilingual somatic practitioner and teacher who has been with gs since 2009. With a background in racial justice and anti-imperialist organizing, Lara also brings trauma healing and resilience into her work as nurse, building abolitionist community responses to health emergencies.

Providing horse-assisted, office and Skype sessions since 2015, in training with gs since 2012. My life’s work is to integrate personal & collective healing & transformation. I’ve been an organizer for 20+ years and bring an analysis of systems of power, privilege and oppression.

Elizabeth began studies with generative somatics in 2013. She works with individuals committed to social justice to build resilience, embody belonging, and heal from the impacts of internalized oppression to become the vibrant, powerful leaders and healers needed to create new just systems.

Danielle Bezaire connected with gs in 2011 and has since been practicing somatics and manual osteopathy in Nova Scotia. She has just defended a thesis on trauma-informed practice in manual osteopathy for patients with a history of sexual trauma.

Becka was a movement baby raised by fierce Midwest working class elders who loved to laugh. Becka developed as an organizer in anti-violence, immigrant rights and indigenous sovereignty movements. She’s been studying Somatics since 2010 and practicing professionally since 2015. She is a new mother.

bhavana is a somatic practitioner, learning with gs since 2013. bhavana coaches clients as loving and rigorous care workers to ourselves and each other. Experience in anti-violence organizing, operations & culture-setting, and childcare & parenting deeply shape their offer as a practitioner.

Sue Kuyper, LCSW is a bilingual Spanish politicized therapist with expertise in vicarious and intergenerational trauma. She works with community workers/activists, immigrants and white folks on the intersections of trauma and privilege. Sue is a cis, bisexual, co-parenting single Mama.

Email: suekuypersomatics@gmail.com

The Black Freedom Movement shaped Alta’s view of the link between individual and social transformation. A former teacher and parent organizer, Alta also worked as a funder supporting community organizing. Before studying with gs, Alta completed a four-year training at the Brennan School of Healing.

Somatic Practitioner, Trainer and Life Coach. My work focuses on understanding and healing trauma. I offer information and practices that support individuals to act from a more authentic understanding of themselves and create more effective ways of interacting with others.

Sonya Brewer, MA, specializes in creative life and relationship design for “out the box” thinkers (and “feelers”). Sonya brings a wide breadth of experience including in-depth training in somatic psychotherapy and trauma recovery.

B is a mixed race, queer, nonbinary femme with black & white ancestry. They have been training with GS since 2010. They currently organize around housing & gender justice in addition to their private practice. They work with groups, organizations & supervise folks who are new to healing work.

My approach to healing work is informed by my training with generative somatics trauma theory, body work and politicized healing. In my practice, I center people of color, young folks, queer-identified folks and people working in social and environmental movement work.

Jess St. Louis is white lesbian trans woman and politicized somatic coach who brings over a decade of organizing and narrative strategy experience to support leaders, organizers, and communicators embody more power, possibility, and lead from a place of freedom. They have studied with gs since 2014 and been a somatic coach since 2019.

Website: www.somaticswithjess.com

Email: jess.stlouis.somatics@gmail.com

Remote Clients: Yes

Languages: English

Role at gs: practitioner