User:TadaHozumi

Tada Hozumi, sometimes known as the Selfish Activist, is a non-binary practitioner of color (Japanese) based in both Unceded Coast Salish Territories (so-called Canadian Pacific North West) and Tio’tia:ke (so-called Montreal). Their work draws upon three main lineages: ‘Western’ healing modalities such as expressive arts therapy and dance movement therapy, ancestral Asian/Japanese embodiment practices, and Afrodiasporic popular dance, specifically ‘popping’.

They refer to their politicized healing practice as cultural somatics or cultural somatic therapy.

The basis of cultural somatics is that cultures are in fact bodies that emerge from networks of relationships. Within this model oppressions such as white supremacy and heterosexism are understood to be expressions of trauma in cultural somas (bodies).

Following, the work of cultural somatics is facilitating change by supporting the co-healing of individual and cultural bodies.

Cultural somatics is both a model for:


 * Practitioner-to-client healing that addresses oppressions such as white supremacy as trauma itself.
 * Social activism that is built upon the foundations of trauma-informed somatic healing, such as relationship building, unconditional positive regard, and titration (working gently and slowly in processing emotional material to avoid re-traumatization).