Standing in our dignity

This is the 5th somatic practice in the audio series Nurturing an Embodied Relationship with Ourselves!

What are you invited to explore in the practice “Standing in Our Dignity”?

A series of gentle movements and gradual postural shifts in your body so you can come into alignment with your full length

Source: Adapted from a centering practice taught by the Strozzi Institute & generative somatics

1-minute excerpt:

“As you experience aligning yourself along this vertical axis, I would like to offer that it is here that we can most fully contact our sense of dignity, our intrinsic worth as human beings, our right to exist as we are. I invite you to honor the full depth and breadth of who you are and all of your identities, particularly those which are marginalized, erased, or stigmatized in society. what is it like to stand in your dignity as a person who may be queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, disabled, living with HIV, Jewish, Muslim, neurodivergent, poor, a survivor, and so many more identities and lived experiences. Just noticing, with care, curiosity, and compassion, what you are becoming aware of within your body?”

Standing in Our Dignity is an 18-minute guided somatic practice in Nurturing an Embodied Relationship with Ourselves: A Series of Guided Somatic Practices on Audio. This practice supports us in occupying a right-sized space for ourselves, in which we are neither overextending nor shrinking our body. This practice is one of five guided somatic practices that I’ve put together to invite us to listen to our bodies and cultivate compassionate and courageous relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with the world around us.