Good intentions do not equal good impact. Because of this reality, we can easily find ourselves at a critical crossroads of choosing either humility or humiliation. Only one of these pathways allows for growth and healing. As a core value of connection, choosing humility, can lead us to accountability, acknowledging harm, apologizing and seeking to repair both past and current ruptures.

It is important to acknowledge here, that somatic embodiment and attachment theory are not being ‘discovered’ by neurobiologists and developmental psychologists. While people in Western cultures are slowing making shifts to practice embodiment, relational reciprocity, and honor attachment- it is critical that we recognize the Global Majority’s Indigenous practices, as the source of knowledge on our body’s wisdom for thriving and healing. These practices, wisdom and knowledge are not new; they have been held for millennia by Black and Indigenous communities, and will continue to be at the center of our collective healing.

The attempted erasure of this knowledge through colonization, occupation, genocide, linguistic imperialism, enslavement, forced separation of families, internment camps and systemic racism, are inextricably connected to somatic embodiment, attachment and intergenerational healing.

Yarrow is committed to applying Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Intersectional Feminist Lens and continuing a lifelong journey towards anti-racism and decolonization. I hope to continue my learning journey with The Emboodiment Institute and generative somatics, deepening the somatic practice of just relationships and a lineage that is moving towards a right relationship with embodiment (TEI).

Principles are valid only to the extent that they can hold up in any given context, combined with our capacity to apply them. The relational principles and somatic practices at Yarrow embody healing to the extent that we can apply them to restorative justice, collective healing and liberation for all.