Returning Home to Our Bodies

For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer

A body-based healing model that interrogates what we’ve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern embodiment practices.

Pushing back against a consumerist, pleasure‐centric somatics industry that privileges product over process, Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practice nurtures our relationships among self, nature, and community.

Combining the rigor of the scientific method with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies, Clarke’s somatic learning system—The Embodied Life Method—centers the body as a guide through today’s most seemingly intractable social and environmental challenges, reclaiming the body as a source of liberatory comfort in times of great uncertainty and yet, possibility.

With tools and practices to help us better understand and dismantle the many ways our bodies are weaponized to serve domination systems, topics covered include:

• Harnessing the vitality of curiosity and experimentation

• Using nature as a guide to possibility
• Embracing the necessity of difference
• Exposing the lie of universal isolation

• Dismantling the fallacy of hierarchy
• Uncovering the truth of endless capacity

• Awe as a driving force for transformation

With methods honed over decades of inquiry, teaching, and practice, Returning Home to Our Bodies provides a lucid, body‐based model of healing and restoration—one that imagines a world beyond systems of domination, marginalization, and isolation to nurture embodied, whole‐community liberation.

FOR READERS OF THE POLITICS OF TRAUMA, MIRRORS IN THE EARTH, AND PLEASURE ACTIVISM. SOMATICS FOCUS: Contributes to a growing demand for body‐based stories and healing modalities.

ANTI-OPPRESSIVE LENS: This book explicitly aims to elucidate, and dismantle, the ways our bodies have been weaponized to serve white supremacy, patriarchy, and other dominator systems.

EXPERT AUTHOR: Clarke has a large (and growing) following and a substantial reputation at the crossroads of somatics and justice work.

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH: Clarke combines the rigor of the scientific method, in which hypotheses are tested and researched, with the poetryand lyricism of movement and somatic studies.

UNIQUE VOICE AND METHODOLOGY: Introduces The Embodiment of Life Method, developed and refined by Clarke herself.