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Join us for our upcoming daylong retreat!
This day-long retreat blends expressive arts, body-based (somatic) practices and nature/eco therapy to create space to explore and express the stories our bodies hold and tell.
Participants will leave with creative tools and practices for deepening the process of claiming/reclaiming and rooting into our bodies’ stories.
Registration and location will be confirmed upon receipt of payment.
This is a trauma-informed, co-facilitated and therapeutic space, held by two therapists. It is not intended to take the place of individual or group therapy. This retreat is open to all folks 18 years and older. We aim to create an inclusive space for all bodies, abilities, genders, sexual orientation, race, and culture.
Location: Anthony Chabot Regional Park, Oakland
Support our Art
We ask you to pay what you can to help cover the costs of making and producing this creative work. Suggested donation $15-$25.
If you’d like a hard copy of our zine, please indicate in PayPal memo.
meet the co-creators
Zara Drapkin: Visual Artist | Trauma & Art Therapist
Living in body with chronic pain, art has been a way of surviving and a catalyst to spaces of thriving. I have long used the creative process as a means of releasing, witnessing, understanding, and generating change. Through my own journey unpacking layers of trauma and pain, and after years and years running away from it all, I’ve come to find and cherish the ways of connecting to my body, among other bodies, on this body of earth. I continue to engage in these processes personally and facilitate space for others in their similar (and yet different) processes.
Pam Lozoff: Somatic practitioner | Writer | Facilitator
Shaped by lifelong mental health struggles and by a desire to share in the journey into our inner landscapes and embodied wisdom, I found my way to somatics (body-based) practices, as both client and practitioner. Movement has been so much of my medicine, and writing is one of my movement and embodiment practices. I hope my works can touch people from this place of inhabiting the body to invite them into a space of belonging within them selves and to their place here in this world, especially the natural world.