Strong Symptoms Workshop w/ Marcela Torres
Strong Symptoms is a 2 hour long self-defense workshop that focuses on building personal strength and resilience through different martial arts techniques, self reflection, group bonding and bystander training. The workshop will allow you to play and release negative energy, improve personal emotional awareness and feel held by a community.
This workshop acknowledges symptoms of structural oppression. We will explore the way that mental health, personal relationships and the physical body are impacted by systematic marginalization. Within this workshop participants will learn fighting techniques, exhaust their body through bodyweight workouts, dance, and write personal reflections. We will have space to reflect, and will help each person find tools to fight and live.
Sliding scale fee $0-20.
Strong Symptoms es un taller de defensa propia de 2 horas que se centra en desarrollar la fortaleza personal y la resiliencia a través de diferentes técnicas de artes marciales, reflexión, vinculación grupal y entrenamiento de espectadores. El taller le permitirá jugar y liberar energía negativa, mejorar la conciencia emocional personal y sentirse en una comunidad
Este taller reconoce síntomas de opresión estructural. Exploraremos la forma en que la salud mental, las relaciones personales y el cuerpo físico se ven afectados por la marginación sistemática. En este taller, los participantes aprenderán técnicas de lucha, agotarán su cuerpo a través de ejercicios de peso corporal, bailarán y escribirán reflexiones personales. Tendremos espacio para reflexionar y ayudaremos a cada persona a encontrar herramientas para luchar y vivir.
III ABOUT THE FACILITATOR III
Marcela Torres is a social strategist. Or a visual artist who uses the tool/methodologies of social activism and education to repair, transform and destabilize cultural ideologies that target and oppress the other. She create modes of collaborative understanding that don’t ignore negative aspects.