Decolonization from Root to Bloom: A Somatic Movement Approach to Reconnect with the Essence of our Sentient Body

Abstract

This article examines various definitions of colonization and decolonization with the attempt to view current issues that may be defined as new problematic ways of embodying coloniality. The field of somatic movement studies serves as a framework for viewing the roots of the argument and for offering a practical experience that may elicit ease and peace around what the truth is, when it comes to somatically identifying that our nature is to live freely in a decolonial soma. Activists, scholars, artists, and pioneers in fields such as somatic movement, somatic psychology, critical race, indigenous studies, and subaltern theory offer insight into the complexity of understanding the processes of decolonization that are necessary today and that can be experienced by utilizing specific tools from somatics, such as the embodiment of space and the return to notions from precolonial languages that expand our reality and have the potential to heal the wounds of our colonial self.