Join Us For
Rage & Resist Ritual
Join Topaz Healing as we shift into the dark season with a somatically focused rage & resist ritual.
It is a hard time to be a deeply feeling human in the world. In my own journey, I have found it incredibly vital to push against the current powers that aim to keep me quiet, secluded and afraid. This resistance takes a lot of energy and strategy, much of which cannot be cultivated in isolation.
One way we may choose to resist the cultural pressures to stay small and disconnected can include collective ritual and the releasing of rage in the presence of community.
Together we will practicing being seen + held in our raw responses to our ever growing collective grief. This is a ritual to offer space and shape for the emotional expressions we are often taught should be suppressed or only be expressed in ways that are ‘socially palatable.’
We rarely get to practice building our tolerance for being with and witnessing our sharper expressions of human emotion, but this is a muscle that needs tending now as much as ever.
Here, we will practice tapping into our anger, grief, rage, and ache. Allowing these embodied responses to be honored and listened to, rather than abandoned or ignored. We will get to practice feeling the earth beneath our feet while we stay present with our community and comrades.
The Details
When: One Sunday per month 5:00 - 6:30 pm. February dates TBD.
Location: The Loft at CHVRCH CYCLE
126 West 900 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Investment: $33 minimum donation
If you appreciate the space I am carving and the work I am doing here in the Salt Lake Valley, additional gratuity is greatly appreciated.
Who: Femmes and thems with a desire be held, seen and witnessed in their rage. If you identify as a cis man, please be willing to sit this one out.
What to bring:
Comfy clothes
A journal + pen
Your outside voice
An altar item to lend to the collective altar — you will be taking this home with you! (a flower, plant, stone, some soil, a seashell, items connected to ancestors or items that feel connected to your righteous rage).
** A note on accessibility - we will be meeting in a loft that requires stairs to access. We will also be sitting on the floor. I will provide a limited amount of pillows, bolsters, and props to accommodate sitting — please email me ahead of time if you have specific accessibility needs.
Current, former, and non-client folks are all welcome to sign up. Feel free to bring your friends or family to participate with you.
Meet the Facilitator
I’m Caroline Pegram, LCSW, Founder of Topaz Healing. We are a somatic and trauma therapy collective humbly practicing on Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute, and Ute lands known as Salt Lake City, Utah.
I am a white, able-bodied, person, leaning on collective and internal liberation approaches to find healing. I have learned from intersectional feminists, environmentalist + abolitionist activists, and queer theorists and embrace the perspectives offered by these mentors.
I am passionate about group work and the healing power it holds. With a deep understanding of somatic practices, I skillfully facilitate sessions, providing an intentional and nurturing environment for connection to ourselves and others.
Somatic Lineages:
Neuro-affective Touch – Aline LaPierre
Focusing - The International Focusing Institute Building on the Work of Eugene T. Gendlin
Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (300 hours) – Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Brookline, MA, with David Emerson
Trauma and Release Exercise (TRE) – Yoga Calm Portland, OR
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
Somatic Experiencing - PESI, 50 hours with Peter Levine
Foundations in Embodied Ancestral Inquiry - Marika Heinrichs, Stevie Joy Leigh, Wildbody Somatics, Weaver and Rose Somatics
Community Based Yoga Teacher Training (250 hours) – Asheville Community Yoga
Ground Works - Ecological Field Study 32 hours
Guide to the Practice
We will assume positive intent from those in the community with us.
We will refrain from offering unsolicited touch, tissues, or feedback.
We will practice knowing that we can both care and be activated by each other, as we often serve as mirrors for one another.
We will be intentional about the time and space we take up, knowing that this is a community space to share the air.
Every part of the practice is an invitation, not a requirement. Saying no to what we do not want or need in the moment is a potent form of medicine for many of us.
We will honor our biological cues and needs and take breaks as needed.
This practice is more experience-centered than content-focused, your context and story are important to me and we only have so much time for verbal processing.
Privacy is not guaranteed in this space, but it is deeply valued. We are conscious of how privacy keeps this practice feeling accessible and do not share parts of group that are not ours to share.
We honor that this is a practice of repetition, a deepening - we are not reaching for a particular landing place or arriving at a hierarchical destination.
As stated by my mentor Marika Heinrichs of Wildbody Somatics: “Capitalism teaches us to value novelty over consistency; practice grows and becomes embodied with repetition. Each cycle reveals something new, another layer. We trust in embodied practice, in cycles and rhythms and honouring the time required for change and transformation.”