Join Gemma Lucas and Chloe Asker for a two-day workshop exploring how we can gently move with shame. The workshop will involve exploring gentle, accessible yoga, movement and art practices. Through creative practice and mindful yoga, we’ll explore our experiences of shame - where it comes from, how it shows up in our lives, and how we might begin to move with and through it.
This workshop is for LGBTQ+ practitioners working in therapeutic or community contexts who want to better understand how shame affects LGBTQ+ people. But it's also open to others in the wider LGBTQ+ community. Together, we’ll reflect on what shame is, the cultural and social roots of shame, and explore how creative and embodied practices can help us move through it together and with care for ourselves and each other.
All materials (yoga mats, art supplies, etc.) and refreshments will be provided.
Dr Gemma Lucas (she/her) is a trauma-informed yoga teacher and a lecturer and researcher at the University of Exeter. She uses embodied practices in both her teaching and research, focusing on how lived experiences like shame are shaped by wider systems of oppression. She created Moving Shame in collaboration with psychotherapists, yoga teachers, and artists, and has been co-facilitating these workshops with Chloe in universities, community spaces, and festivals across the UK and the USA for the past four years.
Dr Chloe Asker (they/them) is a researcher, writer, and queer creative health. Chloe completed my PhD in 2022 on the therapeutic cultures of mindfulness, and has recently published work in journal articles, edited volumes, and self-published zines. Chloe works with different modes of creative storytelling to represent Queer experience, uncover shame, and work through trauma.