Somatics for Individual and Collective Liberation
Somatics for Individual and Collective Liberation
In a time of deep collective reckoning, many of us are asking how to show up with strength, clarity, and compassion — without burning out or bypassing our own pain. “Somatic work” has become a buzzword, but few truly understand how body-based healing can transform not just our personal well-being, but also our capacity to be of service in times of upheaval.
Join Amanda Baudier alongside Victoria O’Neal and Nadia Irshaid Gilbert for a powerful evening exploring the intersection of personal healing and collective liberation. We'll begin with a candid conversation on how unresolved stress and emotional residue keep us stuck in survival mode — and how nervous system regulation can open the door to presence, purpose, and power.
This will be an experiential event combining dialogue, somatic practice, and co-created embodiment. You'll leave with a deeper understanding of how personal liberation fuels collective action — and with tangible tools to support your own journey. As we liberate ourselves, we gain the capacity to liberate all beings everywhere.
Led By: Amanda Baudier, Victoria O'Neal, Nadia Irshaid Gilbert
Amanda Baudier is a spiritual teacher, entrepreneurship coach, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner who guides individuals and groups to their fullest expression. She is the founder of becoming, a community dedicated to embodied-healing, a mother of 2, and a tender of sacred land in the Shawangunk Mountains. She is passionate about the intersection of personal and collective liberation and was recently certified in The Work That Reconnects in the lineage of Joanna Macy.
Victoria O'Neal is a contemplative creative, a poet practitioner deeply invested in getting free for the sake of all beings. A bodhicitta mamacita, she teaches liberatory and tender practices through meditation, yoga and collective care through her community, How 2 Be Whole and Three Jewels NYC. A daughter of the Deep South and Mexico Lindo, she insists upon a life guided by the Mayan moral code - In Lak'ech Ala K'in - to foster a return and a remembering of our interconnected nature as an antidote to suffering.
Nadia Irshaid Gilbert is a Palestinian American chef, writer, filmmaker, and community builder based between upstate New York and New York City. Rooted in Palestinian foodways and storytelling, her work explores the intersections of land, memory, and liberation in relationship with the world around us. Nadia creates immersive culinary experiences, cultural gatherings, and media that center ancestral wisdom and communal healing. She is a self-proclaimed king of za’atar, known for her powerful public speaking and her ability to act as a cultural bridge through sensory experiences.
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Come Early to Elevate Your Experience with Adaptogenic Foods and Teas
Reforesters Laboratory is an experimental adaptogenic cafe and sound clinic located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We utilize music – including spatial, sub-bass-centered, and organic instrumentation – along with breathwork, meditation, art, plant care and adaptogenic, nutritional foods + beverages to cultivate kindness—both physical and spiritual. We aim to create an environment that offers peace, space, and clarity, helping people understand the connections between themselves, their communities, and the world around them. To that end, we offer affordable "pay what you can" ticket options on all events and classes.