Shandra Bauer
Shandra Bauer is a grief tender, group facilitator and yoga teacher who is passionate about creating spaces of deeper connection, belonging and care. She facilitates grief circles, retreats and workshops, works with clients 1:1, and teaches group yoga classes. Her offerings are in service of creating a care centered world that prioritizes our relationship with ourselves, one another and the more than human world. Shandra is deepening into her role as a ritualist and is dreaming of offering community rituals that can serve to heal the collective wounds of white supremacy, colonialism and separation. She is a lifelong student and loves to voraciously read, listen to podcasts, and take courses and trainings that deepen her understanding of what it means to be human together in this wild world. Her most beloved teacher is the natural world, and you can often find her out in her garden, sitting near the Big Oak, staring at the moon or running local trails. She is a proud mother of three kids (age 6, 11,13), partner to Adam, friend, sister and daughter.
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Facilitated By: Shandra Bauer & Amanda Boerboom
Audience: White People
Are you a white bodied person longing to join social justice movements but notice perfectionism, fear, discomfort or shame preventing you from engaging?
Are you already engaged in movement spaces but notice patterns of freezing, shutting down, defensiveness or wanting to “get it right” show up in your body, mind and heart when in these spaces?
Are you curious about what betraying white supremacy and embodying accountability, belonging and repair looks like in practice?
This workshop is a fierce and tender invitation for white folks to face what stands between us and the work of truly betraying white supremacy and fully participating in the movement to end systemic racism. Internalized patterns of whiteness and unmetabolized grief and shame from the harms we have caused (consciously or unconsciously), stop white folks from being trustworthy accomplices in the fight to dismantle systems of supremacy and reimagine a vision of collective liberation.
In this 2 hour workshop you are invited to explore the Sixth Gate of Grief: The Harms We Have Caused as a portal into more deeply embodying the values and visions of the world we long to inhabit. Through teachings, guided somatic practice, journal prompts, and group sharing we will explore together what it means to betray white supremacy and embody true belonging, resilience and courage as we transform our communities, relationships and systems. This is a space to hold complexity, lean into discomfort and deepen into your relationship with grief, shame, dignity, humility and radical responsibility.
Participants will leave with:
Practices to embody centered accountability, dignity, humility and belonging.
A deeper understanding of the ways unmetabolized grief and shame shape us and practices for tending to grief/shame personally and in community.
A commitment statement declaring your dedication to taking action as a trustworthy and accountable white person in the fight to dismantle racism and build a life affirming vision of collective liberation.
This workshop honors the pillars of repair, solidarity and abolition.