Why Embody?
Written by Erica Lee, Informed by Neurobiology of Connection
It’s ironic to me when people say, “get out of your head and into your body,” as if your head is not an integral part of your body. The point of “get out of your head” is thankfully not to sever your head and be a mindless, overly feeling pile of pudding. What embody means is to expand your awareness from not only the intelligence of your brain, but to the full-body experience of intelligence that inhabits every cell of your body. Every cell of your body indeed is a center point of intelligence.
Many of us have heard the sentiment that we only use a small percentage of our brain. My theory is that we use a very small percentage of our intelligence, the majority of which is not housed in our brain.
Sunday Surf & Turf Training Grounds
Sunday Surf & Turf Restaurant — the one where patrons get a bib, gloves, and hand wipes for their Cajun crab mess — turns out to be training grounds for restorative justice practitioners.
It's delicious — a training module that is only enhanced by the Black history musical that came right before it.
While it could be considered just an excuse to hang out with a friend, a new lived-experience case study shows the power of theatre and Cajun food to restore justice.
Take Yvette, a cultural auntie who took me out for an impromptu Emancipation Theatre show, and asserts that she will not be donating her time to white colonialism anymore.
Case Study: Restorative Justice Dialogue on Copyright Infringement, Positionality and Racial Tensions In the Workplace
We’ve all heard the phrase, “I smell a rat” to indicate some injustice is present, such as white supremacy is pervasive.
This week Alexandria admits, “Sometimes I smell a rat, even when the rat is not there.”
We sat in a beautiful community space with high ceilings and big windows. I had made split pea soup, which would end up being the best part of the conversation—see recipe below. Carlos got up to grab one more snack saying excitedly: “This is better than Netflix.” It was nearing the beginning of the alternative dispute resolution session via restorative justice, and he was giddy about what felt like the T (gossip). Little did he know, it was anything but gossip time.