Vision

HoneyRoot visions a world where people have access to opportunities and tools that heal bodies, deepen  emotional capacities, strengthen our communities, and value feminine, masculine and non-binary principles -- in balance, in action. HoneyRoot knows that somatic intelligence is a resource that is not yet fully understood by the larger culture. It is a tool available to all, a healing framework and a natural force that can serve our communities.

Mission

HoneyRoot is a non–profit organization that delivers somatically intelligent, emotionally literate educational programs, workshops and community rituals for people in all seasons of life.  We do this to enrich our collective fabric and create a home for our bodies which is compassionate, evocative, and inclusive. We embrace  growth edges as a way to stay current - personally, politically, collectively, “the new normal.” 

We provide embodiment education designed to address and heal the ancient and contemporary wounds that have severed so many of us from the capacity to live at peace within our own bodies, within our world.

Who We Are & What We Do

HoneyRoot is an educational practice community and social service nonprofit based in the wisdom of body, emotionally-intelligent relating, and the cultivation of a compassionate, resilient social fabric. We provide an array of opportunities designed to help people embody the wisdom that lives in our bones, our nervous systems, hearts and relational capacities.

Through somatically and relationally-oriented events, in-body education, online courses, leadership trainings and community rituals, we create opportunities to inhabit our bodies, embolden our hearts, and include what has been excluded.  We strive to be a home for full-spectrum living.

Values

  • We value inward connection (knowing and feeling) as a ground and resource for outward activity (going and doing).

  • We value connection and inclusivity.  We cultivate greater awareness, sensitivity and social capacity as a way to break down the barriers that have kept us from finding ease of connection in our relations with others.

  • We value individual growth alongside, and interwoven with, collective growth. We know the two are inseparable, and that a collective thrives when it acknowledges the uniqueness of its parts.

  • We open our hearts to the many textures of experience within each of us. We practice tending to all parts of ourselves while staying connected to one another.

  • We embrace our strengths and celebrate our unique capabilities, rather than bending to self-critique or blame that tells us we must be like others in order to belong.

  • We value compassion, knowing demands and perfectionism are tools of systems of oppression.

  • We acknowledge, respect and work with the physical and subtle bodies in a comprehensive way.

  • We are proud of the breadth of our embodied expression – passion, creativity, emotion, intuition, empathy, presence, drive – and support one another in occupying all of these aspects. Through embodiment processes and community support we become the fullest expression of ourselves, no matter what season of life we are in.

When we bend our knees, release our jaws and pelvic muscles, rest our weight into gravity, stay connected to our bellies, and bring attention to the support of the Earth, itself, we set up the potential of finding ourselves and each other,
with ease, grace, and an at-home-ness that is innately ours.

As an organization rooted in education and practice, we know that the repetition of intelligent modalities
grow our capacities to be present, responsive, and sincere. 

Embodied practice yields more depth, insight, courage and freedom than mental “understanding” ever can.

We know that in order to have the impact that we desire, we must simultaneously dedicate ourselves to and continuously grow
our capacity to create an intersectional community. 

With embodied wisdom and inclusivity as our guiding lights, we explore the realities of our own privilege and intersecting oppressions in order to deepen our understanding of where we find ourselves. We are dedicated to building greater awareness in ourselves and our community, and support our participants to do the same.

We work to amplify the voices of those who are not heard enough in the current dominant culture,
and provide these opportunities for our larger community. 

We honor the diversity of all beings, and stand in solidarity towards the goal of ending systems of oppression. 
We know that the deepest learning happens when both compassion and accountability are on board together. 
This is an embodied practice.