This Story
Space to Be Free?
With our lives are molded by the everyday inertia of living in supremacy culture and systems of dominance - colonialism, patriarchy, capitalism - we forget what freedom is, what it tastes like, what it walks like what it talks like, what it feels like when fully FELT through our veins, bones, organs, flesh, emotions, expression, spirit.
During breathwork training I realized that for me what I was seeing was that this was a space to explore of freedom. Where exploration of self allows movement towards the freest self. But I believe in the practice of freedom is most potent when shared, witnessed, generated, held in community becoming a co-liberative practice. So a Space to Be Free is for all of us. A space where we are walking a new path and have CHOSEN to walk alongside and CREATE this path with our co-liberators. Those who see us and are invested in our remembrance and freedom of self as we are invested in them.
A space to practice what freedom is for you and witnessing the returning of others into their own liberation.
With Breathwork being so profound to us as individuals, I believe it has the potential to have a wider impact on our lives and an actual impact on society when it becomes an anchor for practicing in and within community.
Where when we breathe together in community it means building a co-created container that can hold the fullness of the whole, learning to witness and be witnesses, exercizing agency and consent, awareness and practice of our safety and that of others, and development of trust. The fullness of the experience of breath is easier to integrate into our bodies and into our lives as we are witnessed and held in relationship.
Exploring our freedom and the rejoicing in the freedom of one another. The strength of our freedom finds regenerative power in the freedom of the collective.
Co-liberators.
What Shapes My Work
● Amplifying GM
Amplifying voices and space for the Global Majority. Making space to celebrate culture, liberation, and connection to the vibrance of all that we are across the earth.
● Liberation for All People
Space to Be Free is recognition that we are not free until we are all free and a practice in co-liberation. Aligned and firm in the truth of right to freedom to life, shelter, water, land, healthcare, livelihood and autonomy of all peoples in right relationship to earth and all the ecosystems she holds to create and affirm life.
● Right/Renewed Relationship
Always in movement towards right, renewed and remembered relationship to people and the earth and all the life affirming ecosystems and lives she holds.
● Community
Recognition that we are never alone in this life even when we act and live on individual levels. Practicing and remembering the communal ways of being that humans have existed in long before individualist and capitalist systems divided us. Returning to each other, where the strength of our freedom becomes expansive and regenerative when held in community.
● Reindigenized Futures
We are all indigenous to earth but we may not be indigenous to the land we currently live with. Remembering and reaching into lineages. Honoring where we have come from. Connecting to ancestors, felt and known. Making space for our deep histories. Owning and grieving any oppressor lineages, making space for new reindigenized futures.
So Welcome, I’m Vanessa
I am a mixed latina carrying the blood, the histories and the politics of both the oppressor and the oppressed. I am a body in motion, in song, in breath. I am a decolonial*, trauma informed, breather led breathworker and healer in my second year of training.
I facilitate space to connect to freedom through exploration and relationship with self, ancestors, histories, politics, land, water, elements, spirits, beings through breath.
And I look forward to sharing space and co-creating freedom with you.