Regenerating embodied relationships with the living land
Hi, I’m Julia. I am an eco-embodiment practitioner and community ritualist.
I weave ecologically-focused embodiment practices, ritual, & politicized grief-tending into community offerings that foster embodied, rooted relationships with the land/earthbody.
My mission is to:
tend to relationships with land & more-than-human relatives through embodiment work & reconnective community rituals
create earth-rooted spaces for collective/Eco grief that are in relationship with more-than-human relatives and undermine the paradigm of human supremacy amidst escalating socioecological crises
I was born, live, and work on the occupied ancestral territories of the Wampanoag nation. I descend from mixed settler lineages - including immigrants from Ireland, Southern Italy & Sicily, Germany, England, and France. I come from lineages of people who once lived in right relationship with Earth but who were subjugated by capitalist patriarchy and subsumed into its paradigm and structures, thus assimilating into Whiteness and participating in destructive settler-colonial systems on Turtle Island. Part of my work in this lifetime is divesting from the colonial capitalist paradigm and tending to both the ancestral trauma inflicted by these systems and also taking responsibility for the harm that this assimilation has caused.
I understand that settler-colonization is an ongoing structure that continues to desecrate these sacred lands and undermine the sovereignty of its Original Stewards. The Wampanoag people continue to steward ancient Indigenous lifeways & sacred reciprocity with these lands, and I aspire to be an ally in their pursuit for sovereignty and cultural revitalization.
I acknowledge that my presence on these lands and participation in colonial systems – even if unwilling— makes me complicit in the ongoing problem of settler destruction. I know that I have a sacred responsibility to divest from the paradigm and institutions of colonial Empire & seed right relationship with these lands and their Original Stewards. I aspire to be an accomplice in the rematriation of these lands and do not bypass the ongoing occupation of these lands in my land-based work. I am actively working on a long-term plan for reconciliation.