Reimagining Safety in Somatics 

 A 4-WEEK INTENSIVE COURSE TO CALL OUR WORK BACK TO ITS ESSENCE 

 

This is a space for practitioners, therapists, body workers, healers, social workers, and coaches who are asking what our work is actually in service of. And what becomes possible when we place context, relationship, and our own bodies at the centre of the work.

This is by us, for us, to reclaim our spaces as the fertile ground for liberation. 

 

—  From October 8th to 29th —

— 4 Weeks . Every Thursday at 19:00 CET . 2.5 hour live (and recorded) session / week   —  

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A NOTE FROM THE FACILITATORS

This course was born from a living tension in our bodies

A tension that holds deep value for what needs to heal, while recognizing the limitations of our work in the face of the current moment.

This tension brought some real and fundamental questions about what we are actually doing, who we are doing it for, and what it is in service of. For us, our work was never about collecting modalities and tools that keep our clients functional through systemic dysfunction. It has always been about a collective orientation towards liberation. 

Safety was never about the absence of threat, and we cannot continue pretending that we have the ability to create “safe spaces” for our clients.

But we can build spaces that meet what this moment demands of us. 

 Meet Your Teachers

This course is co-created and co-facilitated by Tania S. Shoukair and Zeena Ismail. It draws on their joint professional,  intimate, and ancestral understanding of healing, systems, and collective liberation work.

Tania S. Shoukair

Tania is a somatic practitioner, embodiment teacher, writer, researcher, and community organizer. She weaves decolonial theory and research, Somatics, and her embodied knowledge on liberation into practice. For Tania, the veil of separation between the individual and the collective eroded when she was growing up in South Lebanon, and her first lessons on colonialism, and the path to liberation, were planted in her body through collective trauma. Which she now calls collective wisdom. Tania is the founder of The Deep Knowing and co-founder of Rest/Resist.

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Zeena Ismail

Zeena Ismail is a Palestinian Somatic trauma resolution practitioner, writer, and grassroots educator who holds liberation as a practice that begins in the body.

Her work understands political literacy as central to embodiment, and both as fragile without the container of land to root into and be guided by. She believes in somatics as the path through which we become ungovernable, and alive enough to imagine ourselves beyond what we were told was possible.  

 

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A NOTE ABOUT THE CURRICULUM

We finally understand that our bodies are shaped by histories, structures, and inner conditions. But as beautiful and necessary this understanding has been, it has also produced two strong reactions: 

 
At best, it has manifested into spaces offering co-regulation—a momentary settling into the recognition of our shared experiences. And at worst, it has deepened resignation, disregarding healing work altogether as insignificant in the face of what we’re up against.

If like us you find yourself somewhere in between, if you still believe in the emancipating potential of the work and want to direct it beyond the constraints of your practice, then this course is for you.

This curriculum was created to help reorient our spaces, focus, and clients towards agency. Replacing safe spaces with spaces of choice, where people can reconnect with their aliveness and power, and abandon the constraints of working towards something unattainable to them. We have created this course to loosen the constraints of methodology and reclaim this work as a powerful practice of agency. 

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From Methodology To Orientation  

 

Context

We recognize the body as an intelligent responder to the conditions it lives under. What gets presented as dysregulation is often a valid response to context, and the result of deliberate somatic attrition: the ongoing systemic effort to exhaust and deplete our bodies. Contextualizing healing work means meeting dysregulation with discernment. 

How do we fortify ourselves against depletion?

And how do we honor “dysregulation” with deep care?

Kinship

We center the relational field and the present bodies, not a toolkit or methodology. This means relinquishing the safety-net of technique, and learning to trust what emerges between us as the living site of our work. We understand that we are partners in service of a shared future, mutually shaped by the space.


How do we trust ourselves as we relinquish our attachment to tools?

How do we reclaim the body as our source of inner-authority?

Regeneration

We nourish what is dignified and resistant, reaching towards what remains alive in every person and every collective space we hold. Rather than managing activation, we learn to prioritize aliveness. Restoring what systems of harm have worked on depleting, and extending our impact beyond the room and into relationship, community, and possibility.

What happens when “regulation’ is no longer the focus of our work?

What if we trust the body’s intelligence and sensitivity towards injustice?

Do we really need to feel safe to heal? Or are we so attached to this claim that we can’t see what lies beyond it?  

This course invites new ways of seeing and working with people, redirecting bodies towards agency and dignity by honoring their inherent aliveness.

 

On Finding Safety In Dignity And Belonging In Times Of Crisis
— The Deep Dive episode 02

Reimagining Safety in Somatics: Towards a Deeper Kind of Care

  1. Week 1 — This Moment We Find Ourselves In

    1 lesson
    1. An honest reckoning with the conditions of our practice, an intro to "somatic attrition" and the deliberate efforts to exhaust and deplete us, and a look at work is possible inside systems of harm.

  2. Week 2 — How We Are Meeting Each Other

    1 lesson
    1. A deep look at what it means to let go of methodology and trust the relational field instead. We will examine hierarchy, reciprocity, and the body as the main source of knowing, for a shared future.

  3. Week 03 — What We Are Moving Towards

    1 lesson
    1. Orientating to aliveness, dignity, and collective possibility. Exploring regenerative dimensions of this work, away from the wound as the orientation and towards what is dignified and resistant.

  4. Week 04 — Integration

    1 lesson
    1. A moment of reflection, practice, and seeding forward. Holding space for us to bring the threads of previous three sessions, what shifted, what remains unresolved, and what we are carrying forward.

Reimagine What Safety Means For Your Practice

Join us on this journey of collective liberation and regeneration.

— REGISTRATION CLOSES ON SEPTEMBER 30 —

  

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€370

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We offer two scholarship seats per course. If you would like to apply, send us an email to info@thedeepknowing.com for the scholarship application form.

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Praise for Tania’s & Zeena’s Work

Valerie

Praise for “Window of Choice: Embodying Agency”

“If you’ve been thinking about joining one of Tania’s workshops, please do! The combination of theory and somatic practice really resonated with me. I don’t always feel comfortable in groups, but because of the modeled safety, agency, choice, and clear structure that Tania provided, as well as being in a space with people who share similar values and interests, it was a great experience. I highly recommend this work to anyone who feels called to join!”

 

Lori

Praise for “Baseline: Nervous System Recalibration” 

“Tania beautifully balances theory, somatic practice and group work in her workshops all the while showing up with a presence that was so nourishing to co-regulate with. Her knowledge of interrelatedness, capitalism, and decolonizing makes it safe for BIPOC to access somatic healing. She is intentional instead of abdicating her responsibility to understand sociopolitical contexts. I’m dearly grateful I’ve crossed paths with her and hope to continue to access her workshops.”

  

Doha

Praise for 1:1 sessions with Zeena Ismail

“I want to say thank you so much. I hope many people get to know about your work because I genuinely feel it works on another level of mind and body. A dimension that connects you with your truth from the depths, and allows me to hear my own real voice. The one beneath all the noise, the pressures, the fear, and daily life under occupation. To me, it's as if I was able to defeat colonization from taking away the living, resistant, life-loving part inside me.”

Dina

Praise for “Where Do We Begin” 

This space has been a breath of air my body didn't even know it needed. Necessary, familiar, groundbreaking in many ways too. I feel so much now how important it is to weave different elements into the question of liberation - because of how intelligently this container was curated. The political can't exist without the body, the body can't exist without the land, and so on. So rich, so grounded, so real. Thank you Zeena. 

 

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A NOTE ON WHAT UNITES US 

The Biggest Shift In Our Practices Was This Realization

We don’t need to abandon our work, or to dilute it, but to redirect it towards context, relationship, and our bodies as the primary site of knowledge.

The second biggest shift was the awareness that this is also how we model and embody agency to our clients, instead of remaining attached to the safety of our inherited knowledge. 

From that new position, tools and frameworks no longer matter. And the usefulness of our work no longer feels debated. What matters is what the work orientates itself to, and what it defines as healing.

From a colonial lens, healing is about centering the wound. From a decolonial lens, healing is about centering the possibility that lives beyond the wound. 

Not just what we can be saved and recovered, but what we become capable of by doing this work together. This distinction changes everything. It changes how we hold a space, how we tend to what arises, what we nurture, and what well being truly means. 

From Our Libraries And Research

Why We Need To Decenter Safety From Nervous System Work

On finding safety in dignity and belonging.

By Tania S. Shoukair

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Why We Need To Rethink The Window of Tolerance

Providing a decolonized, collective trauma, and liberation-focused alternative.

By Tania S. Shoukair

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When shared pain becomes shared stagnation
How support spaces can validate our pain but fail to grow our capacity
 
 

By Zeena Ismail

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Reimagine What Safety Means For Your Practice

Join us on this journey of collective liberation and regeneration.

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