QT Soul Sanctuary

An 8-week group in nature

For tender-hearted, liberation focused, soulful LGBTQ folx

Starting this fall

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Welcome to your LGBTQ Soul Sanctuary

As an LGBTQ person living through late stage capitalism, ongoing colonization, and the violence of imperialism, you may feel especially traumatized, burnt out, scared, isolated, and overwhelmed. You may struggle to find your place in community. Or you may feel helpless, as if nothing you do matters. Additionally, you may feel lost in this time – disconnected from your own inner knowing, creativity, body, and spirit. You may struggle to find spaces that support and honor you as a soulful, liberatory, full being.

As a soulful and liberation focused LGBTQ person – you may feel additionally traumatized and enraged by our community’s silence on the most urgent issues of today, such as the ongoing occupation and genocide of Palestine, racism and anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and ongoing colonization. This may further awaken traumas of betrayal and silence from your past. And you may be questioning where you belong, if not in the communities who helped you find your identity. Or perhaps you never felt like you belonged in these communities – but would like to find belonging elsewhere. Somewhere with soul. With creativity. A place where you can let go. Somewhere that cannot be taken away from you.

Finding Restoration and Connection in Community

This is a place to restore, heal, and connect – with soulful, sensitive, and radical QT community. Where you can practice deep explorations of healing, without separating them from creative, soulful liberatory practice. Where you can also re-connect to yourself and your sacred ancestry of resilience, brilliance, and wisdom. As well as learn to embody and integrate boundary-tending and honoring your needs. A place to cultivate your own, sacred, inner sanctuary. And a place to build connection and community with others who can truly see you.

This is a place of refuge. Of emotional support and spiritual healing. Embodiment and creativity. Community and connection.

This is a QT soul sanctuary.

Soulful, Liberation Centered LGBTQ Refuge

Using somatic therapy, guided eco-spiritual practices, and expressive arts therapy (including creative writing, drama, music, and dance/movement practices) we will create a nourishing, affirming, and uplifting space both as a group and internally. We will honor trauma needs, body needs, and chronic illness/pain needs. We will practice nourishment and embodiment, together. This soulful and creative group experience offers:

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  • Somatic and movement explorations of how to tend and honor your needs, limits, boundaries, and unique offerings within your circles and community

  • Trauma support tools to nourish and calm your nervous system

  • Journal explorations and guided discussions to gently challenge and unpack inherited and/or internalized oppressor, white supremacy, and colonizer dynamics

  • Grief rituals and altar making to hold and express the devastation of living through climate devastation and in a colonizing, genocidal, capitalistic country

  • Movement practices to honor and embody the healing wisdom of anger

  • Guided practices on finding your sustainable path as a soulful and liberatory QT person during these times

  • Supported discussions on how to create nourishing connections and community together, and outside of the circle

  • Meditations to explore and build your embodied sense of belonging with nature

  • Guided offerings and practices to connect with spirits/energy of the land to build connection and belonging

  • Arts explorations to re-envision community care and further connection in your life

  • Drama practices to re-claim joy, pleasure, and play in your life

Soul Sanctuary – For Soulful, Liberatory LGBTQ Folx

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✦ Waitlist available (please name preference for Wednesdays 9am-11am, 10am-12pm, or potentially Fridays 9am-11am PST)

✦ Sessions will be 2 hours long, with some flexibility in the ending time to allow for spaciousness in the experience

✦ Covid informed safety practices: no symptoms or contagious illness, fully vaxxed, masking encouraged during surges (please reach out with any mobility access needs)

✦ Limited spaces available – 4 to 8 participants

✦ Ongoing group – 8 sessions each round, additionally ability to stay and join multiple rounds

✦ Sliding scale $60-95/session, 8 week commitment per round

✦ This space is rooted in and centering decolonization practices and community care practices (happy to speak more with you about what this looks like)

Meet the facilitator:

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I’m Phoenix. I created this ecospiritual, experssive arts, and somatic group based on my experience as a liberatory queer enby empath navigating this time of climate devastation, ongoing colonization and genocides, and oppression. Through my work I center offering support and care for the impact of abuse, trauma, ongoing oppression, and isolation. As well as how to honor joy, pleasure, and the sacred empathic gifts of intuition, creativity, and soulfulness within ourselves and our lives. By embodying this path, we can cultivate life-affirming connection, nourishment, healing, and joy as a foundation for liberation and a future where we all are free.

Join our QT Soul Sanctuary in Berkeley, CA

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We are sacred, valued, worthy, and deserving. Not based in our service, nor our sacrifice, nor our work.

We are sacred, based on the very essence of who we are with each other. Our selves; our ancestors; our legacies; our communities; our earth. We are sacred through the art of our being. Together.

Let us remember that.

We can only heal and grow together. Our liberation is forever linked. Our joy is forever linked. Come be held in community – for all of us

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I offer a variety of services that can support you on your journey:

  • For solo journeyers, we will work together to build a sense of safety, connection, and embodiment so you may reclaim your joy, self-love, aliveness, and community.