Befriending your Body: Nervous System Tools for Life and Liberation” is a 5-week-long journey of working with your body’s protective stress response to support you to be more present in your life, more attuned to your body’s cues and signals of safety and threat, and more free to respond to the invitation of the present moment.
You’ll learn a model of nervous system awareness that will increase your fluency with your own body and a suite of simple embodied tools you can integrate into your day to support your nervous system in day to day life and in preparation for deeper healing and creating work. You will accompany and be accompanied in community as we breathe without straining, cry without restraining and so much more.
In a metaphor of the ocean, together we’ll learn how to dance with the waves and find our way back to shore each time undrowned.
Structure
5 live online sessions, 3 hours
There will be 2 cohorts, one on Wednesday evenings and one of Saturday mornings, with a limit on how many people are in each cohort to ensure intimacy and safety. On the form kindly indicate, which or if both of these time slots work for you
– daily online practice videos on the course platform, 5-15 minutes long.
– weekly live online peer practice sessions, 30 minutes – you will have the option between 3 days/times and are required to attend at least one peer practice per week
all 3 aspects of the course are required
Expectations
The course will likely require 4-5 hours of your time weekly (inclusive of the 3 hour in-person class)
The live sessions will include a mix of somatic practices, teaching, small group or partner work, and large group reflections.
All are welcome to apply, however as space is limited, we will prioritise folks of Afrikan descent who have not usually had access to these tools, and we seek especially to resource the needs of our movements for justice and life.
Note: This course is a prerequisite to the fromtheroots foundations class: “tending our roots” starting in 2027
Next Course Dates
Dates: 30 Mar 2026 – 2 May 2026
Times:
cohort 1: Wednesday evenings 6-9 pm EAT (3-6 pm UTC, 4-7 pm WAT, 5-8 pm CAT)
cohort 2: Saturday mornings 9.30 am -12.30 pm EAT (6.30-9.30 am UTC, 7.30-10.30 am WAT, 8.30-11.30 pm CAT)
Location: live online sessions, online peer practice and asynchronous daily practice.
Resource Flow
This course runs on a sliding scale. A sliding scale offers a range of price points to allow differently resourced people to participate and is a practice of economic justice.
On my sliding scale, lower costs represent a contribution from a low-income individual who would like to participate but for whom higher costs represent a sacrifice or a hardship*.
Higher costs represent a contribution from a comfortable-income individual, and one which supports our community and my being able to offer lower costs through redistributing wealth.
You are invited to give as much as would not generate hardship and considers both your needs and ours (facilitators and apprentices supporting practice sessions)
We offer 2 sliding scales for folks whose income is linked to an Afrikan economy and who have reduced access to monetary resources, and another for folks whose income is linked with Global North economies regardless of their nationality or where they are based.
Afrika linked scale
Student/under 20 ——– KES 5,000
Reduced ———————- KES 10,000
Regular ———————— KES 15,000
Supporter ——————– KES 18,000
there are scholarships for East Afrikan movement organisers and activists to participate in the course with stipends for internet
Global North linked scale
Student/under 20/Reduced ——- USD/GBP/EUR 200
Regular ————————————– USD/GBP/EUR 300
Supporter ——————————— USD/GBP/EUR 400
It is possible to split your payment into 2 tranches. Let us know if you need this in the form
Part of my activist practice is to rebuild community, and this means rebuilding other kinds of relationships based on trust and honesty. When I offer a sliding scale I am choosing to trust that you will self assess in an honest way and ground your decision in consideration of my needs as well as your broader resources rather than in either scarcity, or a false generosity that causes hardship. Being honest with yourself and your financial situation when engaging with financial accessibility practices grows strong and sustainable communities (and don’t worry, it’s OK to be confused in the beginning while we re-member the newold).