Liberated Learning

What happens when you leave the classroom, but the educator in you never really leaves?

In this conversation, Dahlia Quintanilla sits down with former educator and Acre Minds founder Amanda Zubia to reflect on the experiences that shaped them as teachers, the challenges that led them to rethink their place in education, and the different ways they continue to support students, families, and educators outside of the traditional classroom.

Together, they explore teacher burnout, the pressures of testing, the importance of creating spaces where students feel safe and seen, and what it can look like to reconnect with ourselves through movement, nature, breath, and community.

At the heart of the conversation is a reminder that leaving the classroom doesn't always mean leaving education. Sometimes, it simply means finding a different seat at the table.

We explores the disconnection between mind and body in the context of learning, highlighting the impact of colonial conditioning and the importance of embodied learning.

Takeaways

• Embodied learning is essential for a holistic learning experience
• Colonial conditioning has led to a disconnection between mind and body

Chapters

• 00:00 Noticing Body Sensations
• 08:24 The Wisdom of the Body
• 17:30 Liberated Learning Community

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Feel into the impact of colonization, the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge systems, and empowerment.

Our daily practice leads us to liberation!

Takeaways

• Colonization's impact on societal structures
• Empowerment through alchemizing pain and releasing colonized schooling

Chapters

• 00:00 The Continuation of Colonization
• 07:19 Empowerment and Alchemizing Pain
• 12:38 Reclaiming the Body and Self-Love

Dahlia Quintanilla shares the personal journey that continues to shape this work.

Discover how her own healing through somatics and the courage to reimagine education led to a vision for learning spaces that heal.

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This somatic practice flows through breath awareness, grounding, and movement.

This practiced is offered to co-create the space for you and your body to connect, with the intention of melting pent up stress and tension.

Invitation: Take time to practice decompression in the body, create the space for the body to be heard.

Reminder: Experience the practice how your body needs. No performance or measuring up, just allowing ourselves to be. Return to presence. We are practicing feeling presence.

Focuses

• Breath awareness
• Self-compassion
• Full body softening

P.S. More of this lives in Exhale, if you need it.