Acupressure Workshop (BPOC only)
Learn about some of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) concepts behind acupressure and the basics of how acupressure works and how to apply it.
Saturday, September 9, 2023, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC+01:00)
Fiscal Host: NEUROMANCERS
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About NEUROMANCERS
NEUROMANCERS is a Black-person led and fully queer facilitated community organisation and radical magazine for and by neurodivergents. NEUROMANCERS is a space for solidarity and education about systems of oppression, focusing on the most marginalized people affected by those systems. However, we don't exclude others who are willing to put in the work to actively decolonise themselves and the world around them. We hold a range of ages, races, identities, and experiences but are united in our goals for liberation. We are not experts, but learn through lived experience, and as abolitionists are welcome to accountability. To us, to be neurodivergent is not only related to our neurology but also a commitment to diverging from and annihilating systems of normality by allowing our creative, resilient brains to dream up worlds of liberation. Neurodivergency is inherently political, and liberationist politics are inherently divergent.
About the Workshop
Acupressure is a healthcare technique you can apply on yourself and others for free. It helps with most health related problems and can improve your wellness in many ways.
NEUROMANCERS is a Black-person led and fully queer facilitated community organisation and radical magazine for and by neurodivergents. NEUROMANCERS is a space for solidarity and education about systems of oppression, focusing on the most marginalized people affected by those systems. However, we don't exclude others who are willing to put in the work to actively decolonise themselves and the world around them. We hold a range of ages, races, identities, and experiences but are united in our goals for liberation. We are not experts, but learn through lived experience, and as abolitionists are welcome to accountability. To us, to be neurodivergent is not only related to our neurology but also a commitment to diverging from and annihilating systems of normality by allowing our creative, resilient brains to dream up worlds of liberation. Neurodivergency is inherently political, and liberationist politics are inherently divergent.
About the Workshop
Acupressure is a healthcare technique you can apply on yourself and others for free. It helps with most health related problems and can improve your wellness in many ways.
In this workshop you will learn about some of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) concepts behind acupressure and the basics of how acupressure works and how to apply it.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on some perspectives and learnings not found in western education. I’ve found it empowering to learn things about my body outside of the white agenda.
There will also be space in the workshop for discussing our experiences of connecting with our ancestral practices – whether that is sharing things we have learnt, or expressing how we are connecting to or disconnected from our practices.
Access:
Access:
- This workshop is open to all ages.
- This workshop is for "BPOC"* only.
- This workshop is for MMIND people (mad, mentally ill, neurodivergent, or disabled).
- Automated captions will be available and use of the chat is an option.
- Cameras can be on or off as you wish.
- No drinking, smoking, or taking medication on camera.
- The workshop will last 1hr and will include at least one break.
- Slides can be made available upon request.
If you have an access need not listed here or any questions, please contact us ASAP.
*We use ‘BPOC’ as an umbrella term to describe people who are Black, mixed race, white-passing, of the global majority, of the Asian diaspora, of the Afrikan diaspora.
About the Facilitator
Workshop Leader: Nat Li Lin Steinhouse is an East Asian and white autistic transmasc massage therapist. They offer massages with acupressure, and work with cancer and palliative care patients. Their main values as a therapist are affordability, access for bipoc, sex workers, trans, fat and disabled people and mutual consent and collaboration.
@byhand.ldn | https://byhandldn.wordpress.com/
Tech Support: TBC
*We use ‘BPOC’ as an umbrella term to describe people who are Black, mixed race, white-passing, of the global majority, of the Asian diaspora, of the Afrikan diaspora.
About the Facilitator
Workshop Leader: Nat Li Lin Steinhouse is an East Asian and white autistic transmasc massage therapist. They offer massages with acupressure, and work with cancer and palliative care patients. Their main values as a therapist are affordability, access for bipoc, sex workers, trans, fat and disabled people and mutual consent and collaboration.
@byhand.ldn | https://byhandldn.wordpress.com/
Tech Support: TBC
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Budget
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-£23.75GBP
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Balance transfer
Credit from Soleil Ren to Acupressure Workshop (BPOC only) •
+£5.00GBP
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Contribution #689004
Credit from Belinda Hu to Acupressure Workshop (BPOC only) •
+£10.00GBP
Completed
Contribution #684374
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