Erin Law is a somatic movement educator, politicized healer, and multidisciplinary artist based in the southern US.

Erin Law (they/she) is a white, gender fluid queer human who was educated in public elementary and high schools then private undergrad (Hobart & William Smith Colleges), graduate (Smith College), and certification programs (Integrated Movement Studies, Mind Body Institute for Massage Therapy) where they focused on dance, somatic movement, bodywork, and sociocultural studies.  

Erin acknowledges they are the recipient of socioeconomic and political power, privileges, and benefits because of their whiteness, appearance and femme presentation, class, and educational status.  They are actively seeking to use this privilege to interrogate and compost the supremacy, elitism, and exclusionary practices of academic institutions. They have simultaneously experienced socio-cultural marginalization as a queer gender-fluid person and as someone who centers lived experience, embodiment, movement, and emotional intelligence within a culture that historically does not value and invisibilizes those things.

Erin’s call and vocation is to create space, content, and curriculum rooted in creative embodied practice that supports people and communities who are ready and willing to unhinge from supremacy culture and lean into collective liberation.  They are currently Embodiment & Somatics Curator at Activist Theology Project. Erin facilitates and engages in practices, analysis, advocacy, and activism to contribute to the transformation of systemic oppression/supremacy culture, toward the  blossoming of a more resilient and whole humanity. Erin is indebted to their ancestors, family, and all of their teachers, students, and colleagues who have challenged and inspired them.  

SACRED PURPOSE

“My call and vocation is to create space, content, and curriculum rooted in embodied practice that supports people and communities who are ready and willing to unhinge from supremacy culture and lean into collective liberation.”

• interconnection: everything is in dynamic relationship

• inviting whole person awareness: cultivate emotional and somatic intelligence; create space for all feelings, share with courage, vulnerability, and humility

• emergence: author Octavia Butler helps us remember “God is Change.” through the influences of emergent improvisation (via Susan Sgorbati and Katie Martin) and adrienne maree brown’s work and book Emergent Strategy, I have fallen in love with what emergence can teach us…respect and affirm process, unfolding, and becoming, hold awareness of and adaptation to what is

• we are enough; there is enough; we are capable of orienting toward grace, generosity, and abundance

• creativity: play is research; there are many possibilities and inroads; regarding our surroundings, communities, and ourselves as different colored paints on a palette to create a dynamic composition of innovation and evolution

• resilience: we have the ability to bounce back in the face of adversity by moving toward what brings pleasure, healing, aliveness, and joy

• decolonizing self, community, relationship to land/more than human kin: ways of being outside of the culture of white supremacy & thriving for the lives of Black and Indigenous Communities and People of Color so that all can thrive

• interdependence: collaboration, sharing and decentralizing power, leaning into the strength of community more often than the deception of individualism

• flow: Fr. Richard Rohr tells us: “don’t push the river.” how can we move with the flow of life and draw on ancient wisdom? can we remember we will some day be part of that ancient wisdom?

• imagination: “what you pay attention to grows” as adrienne maree brown reminds us, and if we lean into the power of attention, our deepest desires have a chance to manifest

• truth-telling: in order to reduce and potentially even eliminate harm, we must be open to feedback as we work to foster honesty, healthy boundaries, accountability, and trust

• transformation: the essence of change is movement and movement is alchemical magic

• liberation for all