Participants will:

• Engage in sensory-based, somatic exploration of race, lineage, and identity.

• Build intimate relationships with “Blackness” and “Whiteness” as energetic and archetypal presences—not just social constructs. (And soon to come “Brownness.”

• Experience emotionally grounded racial processing—grief, shame, fear, and hope—through the body rather than performance or intellectualization.

• Access deep creative states through visualization, ritual movement, archetypal embodiment, and music.

• Be guided through consent-forward practices like blindfolded touch, guided invocations, and spellcraft for release.

• Contribute to collective origin stories and “release spells”, honored through artful visual branding and social storytelling.

• Connect with a network of kindred explorers committed to embodied, non-performative racial inquiry.

Participants will/may:

• Receive the digital Sensing Race Workbook with integration prompts, art, and embodied reflection tools.

• Be invited to a post-workshop integration call with facilitators and fellow participants.

• Receive custom visuals of their spellwork or origin stories as shareable memory anchors.

• Continue their healing through somatic intelligence tools for navigating grief, racialized sensation, and inherited identity.

• Feel less isolated, more affirmed, and deeply attuned to how race lives in the body—as texture, rhythm, myth, and imagination.

• Be inspired to bring this practice into art, facilitation, intimacy, or organizational spaces.

• Releases shame, numbness, or grief around race through creativity and body-truth

• Increases somatic and sensory literacy around lineage, ancestry, power, and place

• Provides playful, consensual access to complex or taboo topics like race play or cultural appropriation

• Supports healing of intergenerational trauma through movement, storytelling, and ritual

• Affirms and resources marginalized bodies through myth, sensation, and imagination

• Offers freedom from intellectualized activism fatigue

• Creates community and connection through ceremony and collective witnessing

• Builds nervous system capacity for holding racial dynamics without collapse

• Inspires new, embodied self-understanding of Whiteness, Blackness, or in-between-ness

• It treats race as a living, sensory, relational experience—not a fixed ideology.
• It welcomes messiness without moralizing, creating space for honesty rather than performance.
• It prioritizes emotional co-regulation and creative intimacy, which allows participants to remain in the discomfort without being retraumatized.
• It cultivates internal spaciousness—a capacity to hold contradiction, nuance, and transformation simultaneously.
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• Race as a Living, Sensory Presence — Not Just an Idea

Some spaces teach race as a topic or social issue. Sensing Race invites participants to encounter race as a shapeshifting, sensory being—felt through movement, sound, imagery, and intuition. This awakens deep knowing beyond intellect.

• Pleasure and Play as Disarmament Tools

Rather than approaching anti-racism with moral heaviness or shame, Sensing Race uses joy, creativity, and erotic permission to soften defenses and inspire new neural pathways. Transformation becomes desirable.

• The Facilitator Is the Method

Shay and Christos don’t just present content — they embody the contradictions, magnetism, and mysticism of the work. Their lived experiences create a transmission, not just a workshop.

• Alchemy, Not Curriculum

This isn’t a class with bullet points. It’s an initiatory space — a performance, a somatic ritual, and a poetic transmutation of inherited trauma into truth, vision, and connection.

• Co-Sensing, Not Top-Down Teaching

The workshop evolves in real-time collaboration with the energy of the group. Participants co-create the experience, cultivating radical trust and emergent insight.

• Multidimensional Fusion of Disciplines

Sensing Race weaves somatics, storytelling, ritual, art, mysticism, and social justice. That cross-pollination allows for whole-self transformation — not just body, not just mind, but memory, spirit, and imagination.

• Spiritual-Psycho-Social Rewiring

Feedback like: “My body remembered something.” AND “I didn’t know my whiteness had this shape.”
AND “This was the most profound encounter I’ve had with Blackness.” … speaks to Sensing Race’s capacity to access deep truths through sensation and symbolism, not just analysis.

• Race as Sacred Terrain, Not Just Trauma Site

The conversation is reframed from one of guilt or grievance to one of reverence and relationship. Race becomes a soul terrain, not a checklist. This sacred lens shifts everything.

• A Portal for the Burnt Out and Disillusioned

Many participants arrive weary of DEI fatigue — and leave inspired, moved, and opened. Sensing Race doesn’t preach or perform wokeness — it calls people in through magnetism, not mandates.

• Validates Survival & Enlivens Possibility

Participants, especially from marginalized backgrounds, feel seen not just for their pain but for their power. This isn’t about fixing; it’s about witnessing, weaving, and celebrating what’s already changing.

•  It changes your nervous system, not just your opinions.

Participants often leave with a rewired sense of their body in relationship to others, to history, to land, and to power itself.

• It acknowledges the erotic as a racial archive.

Race is not only intellectual or political—it’s also felt in desire, repulsion, memory, and affect. This approach invites us to sense race as something intimate and alive in our bodies.

• It uses aesthetics as a strategy.

Sound, music, image, and touch aren’t decoration—they are co-facilitators. These sensory tools help induce trance-like states where deeper truths can surface organically.

• It’s intimate, tender, and non-coercive.

Safety is prioritized without diluting the truth. Participants are invited—not cornered—into exploration, fostering real transformation rather than performative engagement.

• It bypasses the binary.

This work moves beyond simplistic frameworks of privilege vs. oppression. Instead, it explores the full relational terrain between bodies, histories, energies, and timelines—ancestral and future.

• It trusts the wisdom of the body.

Rather than relying on frameworks or theories, Sensing Race listens to the breath, the tremor, the gut, and the instinct. Transformation becomes not a checklist, but a ritual of return.

• It offers reparative intimacy.

Most racial healing spaces stay performative, over-intellectualized, or reactive. Here, participants are offered encounters with the Self and others that are reparative—emphasizing presence, not perfection.

• It’s not about “fixing” race—it’s about feeling it.

And once you truly feel it, you can dance with it, wrestle with it, make love to it, grieve through it, and be transformed by it. This is sacred, slow, sensual work.

• It rewires how people relate across differences.
• It gives language to the felt-but-unspoken dimensions of racialization.
• It creates a culture of erotic accountability, not punitive shame.
• It plants seeds for a future of relational justice—where curiosity, intimacy, and ritual are tools for repair.
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