Course
FOUNDATIONS IN EMBODIED SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM (FESA)
Session
Black Bodies
Date
Day One
December 4th, 2026
10am - 6pm Central
Day Two
December 5th, 2026
10am - 11:30am Central
Day Three
December 10th, 2026
7pm - 8:30pm Central
Guide
Resmaa Menakem
About
For over 400 years, Black people in America have been confronting, resisting, accommodating, and suffering and dying from the cult and systems of white body supremacy. Black liberation has been aided by the resources of Black culture, religion, and folkways, and there is another powerful path to mending trauma and flourishing, not just surviving. Embodied Somatic Abolitionism is a living, embodied anti-racist practice and culture building—a way of being in the world. Embodied Somatic Abolitionism can help Black bodies recognize how racialized trauma has taken root in the body and how to shift out of trauma into thriving.
LEARN
In this course you will:
- Learn what Embodied Somatic Abolitionism is and isn’t (hint: It’s not a way to escape or bypass your body).
- Learn about trauma, how it resides in the body, and how that unresolved trauma keeps us stuck at best and dangerous at worst.
- Learn about your body’s six intelligences or VIMBASIs.
- Use “toys” and reps to settle and resource the body when trauma arises.
- Consider the ways in which people in your culture both suffer from and benefit from white-body supremacy.
- Examine your own inherited biases of anti-Blackness and Indigenous invisibility.
- Learn ways to heal trauma in the self, in the community, and maybe the world.
- Work closely with two other people in an assigned triad to practice and reflect on the essentials of Embodied Somatic Abolitionism.
SCHEDULE
December 4th
Black bodies will come together from 10am – 6pm CST to begin engaging with FESA concepts, practices and principles.
December 5th
From 10am – 2:00am CST.
December 10th
From 7pm – 8:30pm CST.
Black Bodies
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Livestream credentials
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Online discussions
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Two week access to the class video vault