Decolonising Wellbeing: Reclaiming Embodied Wisdom & Collective Knowledge

For generations, our ancestors held deep, relational knowledge of the body, mind, and spirit—long before there were neuroscience studies, therapeutic modalities, or expensive wellness certifications. They moved with the land, listened to their bodies, and understood how to regulate, heal, and sustain collective well-being.

But somewhere along the way, this wisdom was dismissed, extracted, and repackaged.

Modern wellness has become a multi-billion dollar industry—one that places a high price tag on knowledge that was once communal. Training after training, certification after certification, we’re told that understanding our own bodies requires expert approval. Meanwhile, intuitive, relational, and land-based ways of knowing are dismissed as “unscientific” or, worse, ridiculed as woo woo—a term weaponized to devalue alternative ways of knowing and healing. It’s time for it to go.

The irony? Many of these "evidence-based" frameworks are just rediscovering (read: repackaging at a premium) what our ancestors knew all along.

It’s time to shift again.

And, we live in the tension.

SomaPsych is a business. We charge for trainings, workshops, and the spaces we hold. We do this not to gatekeep, but to sustain the labor, time, and care it takes to do this work well—and to do it in a way that remains relational, ethical, and liberatory.

We exist within systems we are also trying to change.

So we keep asking:✨ How do we make this knowledge more accessible?✨ How do we redistribute resources?✨ How do we push back against the very structures we still have to navigate?

We don’t have perfect answers, but we are committed to doing our best.

Our work is about decolonising knowledge.

This means questioning and dismantling the structures that pedestal Western frameworks as the only valid ways of knowing. It means disrupting the internalized colonial mindset that dictates what counts as "real" knowledge and what gets dismissed as superstition or pseudoscience. It means actively re-weaving access to embodied wisdom, so no one is locked out due to cost, academic gatekeeping, or social status.

We’re not just offering workshops. We’re disrupting power imbalances.

We are remembering what has always been true:

Wellbeing is collective.Wellbeing is a birthright.Wellbeing belongs to everyone.