Body Remedy

Various dates 04/07/23 - 01/08/23

Who is Body Remedy, and what do you do?

Body Remedy is an incubator to practise and accumulate tools through embodiment practices. Our programme spans workshops, live listening sessions, residencies and artist development.

We create spaces for gathering, exchanges and learning which we hope facilitates pathways for individuals to shape their own self-directed practice. This (still)-forming ecology is tended to by both teachers and participants who share the learnings, skills and creative practices that ground us in our lives.

Can you talk a little about creating a space and “ecology”, what hopes do you have for the growing community of black people and people of colour who participate in and run workshops with you?

In this contemporary moment of heightened precarity, anti-blackness and limited access to holistic forms of support, it is increasingly crucial to develop tools and strategies for our endurance and perseverance. Body Remedy sits as a meeting place for our collective need and possibility.

Our programme is an acknowledgment that our physical, psychological, creative and collective realities are all interrelated, and so developing our knowledge through this process is crucial. Our hope is to foster self-value, self-love and creative development, allowing for continued growth and evolution, in whatever capacity.

Weather is interchangeable in its nature. It can be a form of nourishment and it can tell us parts of our story. The elements have the power to impact our mood and influence our mental and psychological state. We explore how the “weather” and “climate” are embodied and what we have to “acclimatise” to. The programme pays particular attention to sound the internal frequencies in our bodies. Body Remedy’s activity is inspired by the following quote by bell hooks in Sisters of the Yam: “ The way is one, and the paths are many. We all need to go somewhere to restore our souls. We need to be on that path to recovery and to wholeness. Healing body, mind, and spirit redeems us, no matter where we are in our life—lost or found. When we choose to heal, when we choose to love, we are choosing liberation. This is where all authentic activism begins. ”