Calling culturally specific artists, healers, and organizers into the GEM circle to strengthen your wellness practices and develop your leadership!
Get Embodied Soul Movement (GEM)
is the work of artist, healer TaMeicka “Ifasina” Clear (they/them). GEM is a Black, gender variant led wellness and creative based leadership development incubator rooted in Black American and Pan African principles for healing and personal transformation. GEM targets Black (IPOC) people who have been historically left out of initiatives to support and cultivate their brilliance, through artistic and creative programs, group and teams based leadership development, and organizational and group coaching for groups and teams that seek to work with directly impacted Black people. GEM is home to a spiritual based dance practice, a theoretical practice of affirmation and creativity as methods for leadership development, and a container for Black (IPOC) genius to explore, gain momentum, and emerge.
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The Get Embodied Soul Dance class (formerly All Bodies Centered (ABC) Soul Dance class) started in February 2016 as a dance space to center big bodied, curvy, plus size, BBW/BHM, fat* and all ranges of larger body sizes, people with disabilities and those with chronic illness, pain, and other bodily challenges that make movement spaces difficult and often, unsafe.
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We see a world where embodied Fat, Black, and Disabled people are leading wellness and artistic efforts on their own terms without the oppressive influences of ableism, racism, healthism, sizeism, and cis-sexism.
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The mission of Get Embodied Soul Movement is to support the leadership and creative brilliance of Fat, Black(IPOC) people and Disabled Black (IPOC) people to create, lead, and take up space in their work environments and community.
We seek to increase access to healing, wellness, and the joy of movement, through practices and tools that are rooted in Pan African teachings that are inherently disability justice and healing justice centered. We work to reimagine how to lead and show up fully for ourselves and others without the pressure to change our bodies in order to access care, community, and leadership opportunities.
We create accessible spiritual, creative, and wellness spaces that center Fat, Black(IPOC), and Disabled people in their own narrative about health, well-being, leadership, liberation, and joy.
GEM Values
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The body is sovereign.
We honor our bodies in all of it’s versions and respect it by being in partnership, not at war with it.
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Wellness spans disability, size, race, and class.
We must be invested in a concept of wellness that does not require us to reach goals that put us at war with y/our race, size, or disabilit(y/ies).
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Joy is a personal, sacred state.
We will engage in practices that support us in being with our pain, suffering, discomfort, and grief in ways that allow space for joy, but not at the expense of our dignity nor to negate the challenges of the human condition.
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Play is an access point to creativity, spaciousness, and connection.
We prioritize staying curious about our body’s limits and allow that to influence our way through theory and practice.
