Returning Home to Our Bodies: A Body-Based Healing Model for Embodied Liberation

For readers inspired by Adrienne Maree Brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Abigail Rose Clarke’s new book offers a groundbreaking approach to healing and restoration.

A Revolutionary Approach to Embodiment

The Embodied Life Method: A Holistic Approach to Somatic Learning

Clarke’s somatic learning system, The Embodied Life Method, combines the rigor of scientific inquiry with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies. This innovative approach centers the body as a guide through the most pressing social and environmental challenges of our time, reclaiming the body as a source of liberatory comfort and possibility.

Tools for Transformation and Liberation

Through her work, Clarke provides readers with a range of tools and practices to:

• Harness the vitality of curiosity and experimentation
• Use nature as a guide to possibility
• Embrace the necessity of difference
• Expose the lie of universal isolation
• Dismantle the fallacy of hierarchy
• Uncover the truth of endless capacity
• Tap into awe as a driving force for transformation

By applying these methods, honed over decades of inquiry, teaching, and practice, readers can begin to dismantle the systems of domination, marginalization, and isolation that have held us back for so long.

A Vision for Embodied, Whole-Community Liberation

Ultimately, Returning Home to Our Bodies imagines a world beyond systems of oppression, where embodied, whole-community liberation is possible. Clarke’s lucid, body-based model of healing and restoration offers a beacon of hope for a brighter, more just future.

Returning Home to Our Bodies is published by North Atlantic Books and will be available on January 9, 2024.