As a congregation, we understand intellectually the need to abolish the remnants of slavery from the structures of our legal system, our systems of education, the practices of medicine, voting disenfranchisement and practices of land and home ownership. Just to name a few!

But what we are missing, and what somatic abolitionism centers, is how remnants of enslavement and white supremacy live on in our bodies as an energy charge. Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands says that healing begins with learning how to change the energy charge. Come and explore what living as a somatic abolitionist may mean for you.