This is a segment of episode #276 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Severed Bodies: Tangible, Intangible Somas & Call-Out Collateral w/ Tada Hozumi.” Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/LBWhozumi

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This discussion with Cultural Somatics practitioner and teacher Tada Hozumi, in many ways, builds upon my previous interview with animist counselor Dare Sohei. Tada explores how the Cultural Somatic framework can be used to address systemic oppression, colonized bodies, dance, ancestral trauma, and call-out culture.

To further define Tada's work and the Cultural Somatics framework, they state on their website that:

1. Cultures are in fact bodies, or rather ‘cultural somas’, that emerge from networks of relationships. Cultural somas are intangible in nature yet can function similarly to our own body that has a delicate nervous system. This fractal relationship between individual and cultural somas shows us that all somas, large and small, are meant to be in co-healing with each other.

2. The above-mentioned cultural somas are also fields in which all intangible ‘beings’, ones our elder cultures referred to as ancestors, spirits, and goddesses/gods, exist. Even abstract concepts such as white supremacy or misogyny exist as beings in this field. This shows us that we are all a part of a common field and the healing of tangible beings like ourselves is interconnected with the healing of intangible beings that for the greater networks of relationships that we all commonly belong to.

Tada Hozumi is a practitioner, developer, and teacher of emergent methodologies for individual and collective healing that holistically integrate animism, somatics, and justice. At the core of their practice is the understanding that all oppressions, including white supremacy, are energetic ailments of both the individual and cultural body. Individual healing cannot be whole without tending to the cultural, and vice versa, that cultural change cannot be in good faith without tending to all of the bodies that make up the collective.

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