wellbeing

Embodying Liberation

This course offers a transformative journey into embodied resistance and collective healing. Developed under siege and exile, Ashira Active Meditation draws from Sufi whirling, somatic release, and indigenous Palestinian practices to support healing from trauma on both personal and collective levels. Participants will: - Explore how continuous trauma shapes the nervous system - Learn how the body can be a site of both memory and liberation - Engage in movement practices, grief rituals, and storytelling - Reclaim joy as a form of resistance Guiding Questions: - How do we grieve while building resilience? - How can our bodies become vessels for transgenerational healing? - What does it mean to be radically alive in times of collapse? This course centers voices from SWANA and global majority communities, offering tools that are culturally rooted, somatically empowering, and spiritually sustaining.

Taught by Ashira Darwish

Who Is This Course For?

  • Artists, activists, healers, therapists
  • People living through or supporting others through generational or political trauma
  • Members of colonized and marginalized communities, especially Black, Brown, SWANA, and diasporic peoples
  • Anyone seeking embodied tools for personal and collective resilience

What You'll Learn

  • Explore somatic tools rooted in ancestral and cultural practices
  • Create a personalized integration map for sustainable wellbeing
  • Critically examine and decolonize Western psychological frameworks
  • Embody Sumud — Palestinian steadfastness — as a physical and analytical practice of resistance

What's Included

Live Sessions

Interactive classes with your instructor

Session Recordings

Lifetime access to all recordings

Community Access

Connect with fellow learners

Certificate

Proof of course completion

Course Modules

1

The Body Keeps the Score

Understanding how oppression lives in our bodies

2

Somatic Practices for Release

Tools for releasing stored tension and trauma

3

Reconnecting with Body Wisdom

Listening to what your body knows

4

Embodied Freedom

Living liberation in your daily life

Real-World Project

Learners will design a personal or community-based ritual (eg guided meditation, movement practice, storytelling circle, or grief ritual) They will also prepare a personal case study + presentation documenting their healing journey throughout the course and how they’ve applied Ashira Active Meditation in service of their communities.

About the Instructor

Ashira Darwish

Ashira Darwish

Somatic practitioner and liberation educator guiding others to embody freedom and healing through body-centered practices.

$800

Course fee

Starts

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Course Details

Format Live Online
Class Size25 students max
Modules4 modules
Sessions8 sessions
Duration90 min each
Time
6:00 PM EST ET
DatesJan 6 - Feb 16, 2026

All courses include live sessions, community access, and direct interaction with the instructor.