In Our White Bodies

A collective of white body-oriented practitioners committed to Anti-Racism

The intent of this group is to work with anti-racism material from a perspective of living with-in a body identified as ‘white’ - working with embodiment / in-our-bodies / soul / somatic / anything-you-want-to-call-it sorts of practices.

We understand that racism is not just something that happens in one’s thinking mind, but it affects all of one’s body tissues. We do practices to investigate and hopefully un-do some of the more-unconscious body response patterns that happen in relation to racialized moments.

We as practitioners organized this group so that we could put in time and labor for ourselves, each other, and any other white-identifying peoples who want to explore how Racism lives in our individual and collective bodies.

We regularly facilitate free & paid sessions. Any and all payment goes to our BIPOC accountability partners or to BIPOC organizations. Our practitioner collective receives no payment for this work.

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Our regular practitioners

We are a fluid collective and below is just a partial list of all the practitioners who have facilitated in our group.

  1. Barbu Panaitescu (he/him)

    I’m a dad. I mentor, encourage, support and facilitate, using a variety of body-based practices (Lots of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy). I am primarily of Romanian, Greek and Southern European descent, with some Ashkenazi ancestry. I came to this land at the age of 4 from Romania, and have been involved in anti-oppression work and sovereignty facilitation/exploration in one way or another since I can remember. I love people and I also love the more-than-human.

  2. T.T. Kooken (they/them)

    I'm a Trans Non-binary parent, somatic facilitator & coach, movement teacher, dancer, performer, & writer. I live on the land of Bulbancha/New Orleans with roots in colonizer-settlers from Irish, English, and German ancestries, amongst others. I practice in modalities ranging from the martial and healing arts to somatic coaching to movement performance and many spaces in between. I am focused on cultivating process-oriented healing and growth through Somatic practice, and I am committed to living inside the queering and dismantling of normative expectations in our practice cultures. My work aligns with & blooms from my Queer identity and my Animist world-view and thereby encourages deep, wide, and expansive exploration and creativity, and inclusion of the beyond-the-human realm.

  3. K Laspruce (they/them)

    I am a nonbinary white person of Irish ancestry who grew up in cities in so-called Canada. I live in Bulbancha/New Orleans. My background is primarily in meditation in the Insight tradition, and I am currently affiliated with queer meditation new orleans and True North Insight. My practice involves exploration of embodiment and awareness through meditation, movement and music.

  4. Erinbell (she/her)

    hello. i come from irish, anglo-saxon, flemish and other white skin colonizing-settlers of turtle island/usa. i’ve been practicing somatic stuff for quite sometime, mostly learning about it from horses, and art making. i’m cis, very sincere, excitable, and also kind of a goofball. she-ish. i’ve been diagnosed autistic. (and, i think we are all neurodiverse.) i’ve studied heaps about cognitive-neuroscience. i’m currently in an environmental science degree program at salish kootenai college, and living in selis, ksanka, qlispe lands, montana. when i’m not studying i’m usually hanging out with plants or cuddling with my dog-friend. more stories about me and somatic things i do are here: https://relationalawareness.org/  or free practice video: https://youtu.be/cdSHIPD7b7E

  5. Florian Filtzinger (he/him)

    I am a Somatic Educator (RSME) and currently adding a training in Movement Therapy onto this. My initial studies were in communication science and social anthropology. I have been working in the queer movement, social justice projects and violence prevention since I finished my first studies an am living in Berlin, Germany. I moved here as a teenager from Germany's south-west, where I was born and raised. Focus of my current inquirie are bodies of / after discrimination, resilience building and trauma recovery as much as working with differently abled bodies and Somatics & youth.

  6. Amélie Gaulier (she/her/elles)

    I am a gender fluid water based living organism in a white female body engaged in dismantling the impacts of white supremacy (within and outside of myselves). I work as a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering (BMC®), MNDFL mindfulness instructor and facilitator and Somatic Movement Therapist Member of ISMETA. Based in Canarsie land, Brooklyn since 2015, my native country is France and I’ve inherited Mediterranean ancestry. My collaborative practices are informed by contemplative/somatic(s) approaches and embodied cognition and spirituality: to enlarge body awareness with embodied listening and voicing out, to revisit our self and collective narratives, in regards to our unconscious/conscious historical and interpersonal trauma and resilience responses.

  7. David Baar (he/him)

    Hi! I'm David and I grew up and lived in Northwestern rural Germany until I was 21. After moving around internationally for college I have been living on Gabrielino/Tongva Territory (aka Los Angeles) since 2011. I was shaped by white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism and the privileges these and other systems of oppressions have provided me as a white male. And within the last two years, I am more and more significantly shaped by actively working on and contributing to dismantling these systems of oppression (as well as all others) within myself, for us all and myself, and am committed and passionate to do so until they no longer exist, or I no longer exist. How? In my capacity as a somatic coach and somatic bodyworker, in this space, as well as an organizer with White People 4 Black Lives LA.

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We operate mostly via email communications, and have no other online presence. If you're interested to learn more about our group, attend a session, or join the collective of practitioners, email us! Our collective responds collectively, so it may take up to a few days to hear back!

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