Learn from Embraced Body

Embraced Body is driven by a profound commitment to fostering accessibility and inclusivity for multiply marginalized Disabled individuals. Our impact spans beyond the Disabled community; we strive to engage and educate all individuals, fostering a deeper understanding of Disability Justice principles and the detrimental effects of ableism on society as a whole.

JJ Omelagah is a non-binary program director at Embraced Body. They are pictured candidly speaking into a microphone, wearing a button down shirt with a tie, vest, and jeans. They are wearing glasses and have a short haircut.

OUR EXPERTISE

Here at Embraced body, we hold expertise on a wide range of topics that we approach from an intersectional lens. You can choose from one of our existing keynotes/workshops or contact us to craft something custom for your organization around the topics listed below.

  • Disability Justice

  • Inclusive Dance

  • Liberatory Access

  • Liberatory Consciousness Framework

  • Access Doulas

  • Unlearning Ableism

  • Gender Justice

Keynotes

Three different empty wheelchairs/assistive devices pictured in the dance studio

Embodying Disability Justice

Participants will learn the roots of Disability Justice and learn about key leaders in the movement.  We will explore how Disability Justice is distinct from the disability rights movement and learn how we can embody the principles of the movement. We will unpack ableism and the many ways it shows up internally and externally.

India Harville, Founder of Embraced Body is posing in a pink dress while sitting in a wheelchair. She is a Black woman with long locs and arms outstretched.

Dancing at the Intersections: Dance, Disability, Queerness, and Blackness

In this keynote, India Harville discusses what it’s like to be a performance artist living and creating at the intersections of blackness, queerness, and disability/chronic illness.  India shares the systemic barriers that impact artists navigating multiple oppressions and shares about the ways she has overcome some of those challenges and discusses the barriers that still remain. India can also do a live performance as a part of this workshop for an additional fee.

About 20 disabled people of many races and cultures gathered outdoors. They are smiling and exuding a sense of community.

The Revolution Will Be Accessible

It is imperative that social justice work and activism include a Disability Justice analysis in their work to be effective. This keynote address explores why Disability Justice is so important to liberation work of all kinds and invites the audience into anti-ableist practices that move us towards collective liberation.

Keynotes are 20-40 minutes plus a Q&A and start at $5,000

If you are a majority multiply-marginalized organization or group, please contact us for reduced pricing.

Workshops

Disabled people at a dance workshop. One hold a microphone, one is in a wheelchair accompanied by their service dog and another stands to the right.

Access Matters: How You Can Create More Access As a Movement Teacher

 We will cover how to make your spaces more accessible, how to adjust your language for greater inclusivity, and how to offer variations and options that work for a wider range of bodies and minds. This training is ideal for dancers, yoga, and other movement teachers, somatic practitioners, massage therapist instructors, meditation instructors, and any other type of educator/practitioner who wants to improve the accessibility of their offerings. 

2 hour workshop with accompanying guidebook

India Harville in a workshop with a white disabled young woman in a powerchair. India is squatting next to her, assisting.

If You Can Breathe, You Can Dance (and Sing)

In this interactive workshop designed to be accessible for a wide range of bodies and minds, we explore movement and stillness (and/or sound and silence) together through a range of exercises and activities designed to help us connect to our bodies (and/or voices), to have fun in the space with one another, to learn how to create inclusive community together, and to allow us to experience dance (and/or sing) no matter our background or level of experience.

2-4 hour workshop with playlist and deck of exercises

Two Black people lay on top of each other perpendicularly on a purple mat. A service dog is laying next to them.

Just For Us: Healing Spaces for QTBIPOC communities navigating multiple systems of oppression

These intensives are spaces for BIPOC communities navigating multiple oppressions—for example QTBIPOC or BIPOC Disabled/chronically ill people—to come together in a politicized healing space where we can explore trauma-informed somatic exercises, movement, sounding, grief work, and anything else that emerges as supportive for our resilience and cultivation of self love and community.

1-3 hour workshop with presentation slides

A diverse group of disabled people gathering at an event, they are locking hands in a circle as they stand.

HOW TO WORK WITH AN ACCESS Doula

In this two-hour workshop with access doula JJ Omelagah, you’ll learn everything you need to know about access doulaship. The training will clarify what an access doula is, what services they provide, and how to hire and work with an access doula for an event. You’ll also learn the history of disability access doulaship.

For those interested in becoming access doulas, this training will cover the basic skills needed, including what types of supplies to have on hand in your access doula go bag.

2-hour workshop with presentation slides

Workshops generally range from $5,000 - $25,000 depending on length and number of participants

If you are a majority multiply-marginalized organization or group, please contact us for reduced pricing.

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