As an organization that has historically been led by mostly white people and served mostly white participants, we recognize that we have significant work to do to address issues of privilege and oppression and we are committed to continuing to do better. We hope you will join us.
Solsara must also be about uncovering and dismantling the systemic oppression that has kept all of us stuck in an unjust and oppressive culture. Beyond our personal needs and growth, we also want Solsara to be a vehicle for empowering our innate capacity for the much-needed leadership that is essential for our collective liberation.
The Solsara leadership team is choosing to enter a time of reflection, reorientation, and education. We will be slowing down our offerings with these intentions:
Sara Eden discusses her recent "ah-has" about not making assumptions and holding people and ideas with curious hypothesis.
Sara Eden shares what she has learned through the experience of loss.
In our blog this month learn tools for unraveling cultural conditioning around beauty while nourishing self-acceptance.
Learn how Truffles the Cat taught me how to be gentle with myself in this short video.
Why does being a human feel like such a struggle sometimes?
If we take a clear and honest look at the culture we live in, how could it not? From the time we’re born, our culture places a continual flow of expectations and restrictions on what we’re supposed to feel, express, desire, and do.
"Shame must be healed within relationship", my teacher recently said.
The instinct to hide parts of us, that for one reason or another, we have deemed unlikeable, inadequate, or unacceptable, is wired into our systems to protect us from rejection because, in biological terms, rejection could threaten survival.
I left town last July with my partner, Jonathan, and toddler, Luca, on a mission to share more of ourselves in the world for one year. It was time for me to grow beyond the safety of my home and for me to use my voice, to lead by example and practice facilitating groups through heart-rich sharing of our experiences, struggles, grief, joys and aspirations.