Please join artist, spaceholder, & CCA Alum Ali True and Associate Director of CAPS Leah Oliver, PsyD, for an event on Feb 9th from 3 to 4:30 pm to explore our benevolent bodies. This will be a trauma-informed guided somatic experience in which participants are welcome to bring their full selves, voices, and feelings to the moment. We will practice residing in our bodies, centering self-love and self-kindness as we engage with movement and drawing practices. There will be ample time for integration and digestion. Please consider this a ceremony and be prepared to come on time and stay for the entire event. Please bring a yoga mat, cozy socks, and an eye mask if you have one. Some props will be available for those who need them. 

Please be aware that as an active participant in the workshop and activities, you will be engaging in prompts and exploration that may be provocative due to your own experiences with grief, loss, and trauma. Please take note of your own self-care needs when considering participating.

Ali True holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from CCA, with a focus in textiles. She is interested in the thresholds of life: she has worked as a post-partum doula and infant massage instructor and is currently volunteering as a spiritual care companion for people in hospice. She has sung in the San Francisco Threshold Choir for the past decade, whose mission is to sing to people at the thresholds of life. She is currently a student at the San Francisco School of Theology /Redlands pursuing a certificate in Trauma & Spiritual Care. She is also a certified Trauma informed Plant Medicine Facilitator and a Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Coach. She has studied extensively with Adyashanti, Jeannie Zandi, Mama Gena, Atira Tan, and George Grey Eagle Bertelstien. She is deeply grateful for her life, and deeply humbled by it.

acenterforbeing.org, ali-true.com

This workshop series is funded by the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) Arts & Wellbeing Mini-Grant Program.

Image: From See-Through-Silence (2014), a series of open meditations at St. Ignatius Church. Image courtesy of Ali True.