REST EMBODY RESIST
By Zahira Mous
Workshop dates:
------ Update: First session starts on the 20th! -----
20, 26 February 2025, from 5-8 pm. As we build up the content and the trust in the group, we generally expect attendance in all three sessions unless communicated with us for certain circumstances.
Location: Clockhouse building Old library (Generaal Foulkesweg 37, Wageningen)
Questions to: otherwise@wur.nl
Description
This three-part workshop is focused on movement and mind-body connection, for people who want to heal and learn in a group setting. Zahira uses decolonized healing methods to help the community cope with the demanding reality of being human. Modalities utilized: sharing and listening, EFT, moving from the wisdom of the body, and creativity. It is a three-part workshop series during which we deepen the work each session, diving into layers of our being, making an inner inquiry and creating space within (sometimes questions, sometimes answers). With this work, you’ll gain tools to help regulate your nervous system, increasing self-awareness through recognizing your worth, as well as connecting to (building) community. Welcome to REST | EMBODY | RESIST.
For whom?
Rest And Resist emerged as a platform for needing a supportive and safe space for fellow activists and artists fighting for a free Palestine, and beyond. Their work focuses on fighting exhaustion, separation, burnout, harm, and disillusionment in activistic movements. If you are longing for a collective space where you can rest with intent to co-regulate, build resilience, supportive networks, mutual care, and trust, this space is for you. As we will use our bodies to move and and heal what needs healing, we aim to accommodate bodies of different abilities. If you have any questions or concerns weather this space is for you, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at otherwise@wur.nl.
Biography facilitator
Zahira Mous’s work is about embodied healing; generating feelings of inner freedom. From exploring artistic and spiritual practices across the globe, Zahira developed understandings of varying cultures and languages and how they influence humanity and, by extension, the arts - and vice versa, how the arts influence humanity.
Zahira Mous’s life started out with dance. Alongside performing and creating choreographic projects, Zahira traveled to various places and offered healing through dance and movement; specifically providing girls and young women with joy and tools to cope with traumas from human trafficking, (sexual) violence, and poverty. Those experiences developed her dance therapy practice.
Zahira holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s & Gender Studies and a Bachelor of Theatre in Education. She is the director of dance theater company Project Zahira, founder of the non-profit Healing Arts Foundation, and co-director of REST|RESIST. Zahira is certified in NLP and EFT as well as a therapy series based on a Jungian approach focused on healing the inner teenager.
As an activist and artist, she focuses on improving human rights / women’s rights in Brazil, India, Palestine, and in the Netherlands. Decolonizing therapeutic and cultural practices is significant if we want to dismantle imperialism, capitalism and the patriarchy.
