Signed in as:
filler@godaddy.com
Teachers & Lineage
We honor our human teachers in these fields both direct:
Sage Hayes, Nkem Ndefo, Meenadchi, DeeDe, Dawn, Shilpa Jain, Devika Shankar, Elaine Zook Barge, Dave Berger, Diane Poole-Heller, Joshua Sylvae, Mahshid Hager
and indirect: Prentis Hemphill, Staci Haines, Peter Levine, Grace Lee Boggs, Resmaa Menakem, Parker Palmer, adrienne maree brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and many more
We honor the beloveds who are in close practice with us:
Our land and food home with Home Farm
Our political home with Columbia County Sanctuary Movement
Our practice space with Yaad Wellness
Our network of colleagues and collaborating practitioners
and every client we've worked with.
About Char Kasza
Our multidisciplinary practice includes:
Advanced training in Somatic Experiencing Trauma Resolution (SEP)
Certification as a Resilience Toolkit practitioner
Certification as a STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness & Resilience) practitioner
Training in Emergent Strategy's Holding Change facilitation and mediation models
Training as a Conflict and Grief Circle facilitator
Training in Sage Haye's Embodied Liberation approach to SE
Training in Dave Berger's BASE approach to Concussions & PTSD
Training in Diane Poole-Heller's approach to Neurobiology & Attachment
Training in Resmaa Menakem's Somatic Abolitionism
Training in Meenadchi's DNVC (Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication) approach
Thousands of hours training & practice in Mysore style Yoga rooms
Ongoing learning with mentors, colleagues, and community in workshops, trainings, life together.
I'm moving from fire to rock in a chronically ill/disabled, white body that is pulled towards the Ocean and guided by the Moon. I'm here for music, magic, movement, butter, honey, and tea. I'm following the Humpback whales, cooking to conjure, and dreaming in Tajik more nights than not.
I come from generations of island and coastal people, along Mama Atlantic from the Outer Hebrides to the Outer Banks. I also come from the desert air and fruit-filled courtyards of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where I lived the first half of my life in a complicated expat family. The tension and gifts of multi-lingual, multi-cultural complexity and belonging strain shaped me as a conflict facilitator in more potent ways than any of my trainings.
I now live among the nettles, mugwort, roses and sweet waters that flow from the Catskill mountains, ancestral lands of the Munsee Lenape and Mohican peoples. I am committed to community feast and I feed the folks in our area through Beloved Kitchen.
I came to Somatics and Conflict Transformation out of desperation for change in my own life, and the journey has been through roles as harm-er as well as harmed. I stayed in the work for the vision of collective, systemic transformation at neighborhood & village levels. That journey, and my own practice, are woven throughout my work integrally.