Courses – Cultural Somatics Institute

Take one of our many self-directed courses at your own pace

All our bodies—bodies of all pigment—are infected by the virus of white-body supremacy. Our online courses are a collection of embodied knowledge courses that empower you to develop embodied racial literacy so you can develop a life and community centered on abolishing white body supremacy.

Introduction Courses

Cultural Somatics 5 Session eCourse

This short free course is designed to begin to help people confront the idea of racialized trauma, the impact of it, and how it begins to move through generations. Get a glimpse of the process before going more in-depth with the other courses.

$FREE

CSI 101: Racialized Trauma

This course is designed to help people confront the idea of racialized trauma, the impact of it, and how it begins to move through generations. This course will also help you begin to pay attention to and listen to your body, and better orient and ground yourself.

$147

Advanced Courses

These are more advanced classes. The prerequisite for registering for the advanced courses and/or the Five Course Bundle is to first attend a live-virtual Foundations in Embodied Somatic Abolitionism course with Resmaa through Black Octopus Society.

These classes will have updated videos and content and provide participants with tempering and conditioning reps. The classes are intended to be opportunities for repetitive periodic review. Each rep provides an opportunity to address somatic elicitations.

Foundations in Embodied Somatic Abolitionism

Racialized trauma has taken root in ALL bodies, whether through experiencing racism, witnessing racism, or enacting racism. Embodied Somatic Abolitionism is a living, embodied anti-racist practice and cultural building—a way of being in the world. It is a return to the age-old wisdom of human bodies respecting, honouring, and resonating with other human bodies. It is not exclusively a goal, an attitude, a belief, an idea, a strategy, a movement, a government, a plan, a system, a political belief, or a step forward.

$395 – 650

Somatic Elicitation Practice

Somatic Abolitionism is a living, embodied practice and culture building that requires endurance, adjustment, stamina, discernment, and resource cultivation. These traits can be built, day by day, through reps. This course will help you build these traits, to recognize the impact of racialized trauma, unhealed pain, and body constriction from White Body Supremacy, and to better identify and respond to these somatic elicitations.

$263

CSI 201: The Basics of Somatic Abolitionism: From the Individual to the Communal

Discover how to evaluate your body out of curiosity, rather than fear and have the capacity to relate to the connection of mind and body and reclaim it. Gain an understanding and knowledge of the effects of sociocultural factors and the historical content on the physical and mental health of the body.

$263

CSI 210: Racialization and Communal Leadership in Relation to Somatic Abolitionism

You will understand the value of settledness and self-awareness and cultural healing. Learn and teach the importance of: • Traumatic retentions – and grow out of them • Historical and intergenerational trauma • African history and culture • Children the basics of body awareness and somatic healing • Regard for one another • Mobilizing as a community

$263

CSI 226: Land Theft and Racialization Trauma of BIBOC in Relation to Somatic Abolitionism

As you acknowledge the impact of WBS and the theft of BIBOC land, culture, and language you will learn the value of compassionate self-care as well as safeguarding your body. Few skills are more essential than the ability to settle your body as a settled body invites and accepts efforts to mend it, while an unsettled body tends to resist those efforts.

$263

CSI 251: Ethics of Somatic Abolitionism

The following ethical standards are relevant to the professional activities of Somatic Abolitionists and Social Workers. You will learn the IV Standards of Practice that establish guidelines for the conduct of Somatic Abolitionists. These standards concern: (1) Education and Training, (2) Practitioner Responsibilities, (3) Self-Representation as a Professional, and (4) Ethical Responsibilities.

$263

Five Course Advanced Bundle

Buy all five courses now and save!

With this advanced course bundle purchase, you will receive:

Somatic Elicitation Practice
CSI 201
CSI 210
CSI 226
CSI 251

$1175.00

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Take one of our many self-directed courses at your own pace

Introduction Courses

Cultural Somatics 5 Session eCourse

CSI 101: Racialized Trauma

Advanced Courses

Foundations in Embodied Somatic Abolitionism

Somatic Elicitation Practice

CSI 201: The Basics of Somatic Abolitionism: From the Individual to the Communal

CSI 210: Racialization and Communal Leadership in Relation to Somatic Abolitionism

CSI 226: Land Theft and Racialization Trauma of BIBOC in Relation to Somatic Abolitionism

CSI 251: Ethics of Somatic Abolitionism

Five Course Advanced Bundle

Buy all five courses now and save!

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