Your Body is a Revolution, Tara Teng
Your Body is a Revolution, Tara Teng
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Your Body is a Revolution
Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each Other, and the Earth

Author: Tara Teng

Narrator: Tara Teng

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/13/2023


Synopsis

Too many of us are living disconnected from our bodies, chasing a constantly moving target of "ideal," and accepting the societal narrative about which bodies are deserving of safety and protection. In an effort to keep ourselves safe, we shame, push aside, and assimilate parts of ourselves that don't align with the cultural norm. In turn, we are disconnected from our bodies and therefore from our humanity, losing sight of the true nature of who we are and who we were born to be.

Your Body Is a Revolution is an invitation to reclaim what has been stolen from us, to embrace the wisdom our bodies long to share, and to fully inhabit our lives. Embodiment coach Tara Teng helps us untangle ourselves from centuries of body-based oppression built into our societal systems or masquerading as religion and teaches us to slow down and listen to the wisdom that comes through somatic practices. When we embrace right relationship with our bodies, we also come into right relationship with all things: ourselves, each other, the earth, and our spirituality.

Take back what society says is too much, too loud, too feminine, too masculine, too gay, too worldly, too unique to fit into the restrictive mold built by patriarchy, colonization, and white supremacy. Come back home to the place you were always searching for. Here, your whole self is welcome.

About Tara Teng

Tara Teng is an embodiment coach and somatic practitioner who works at the intersections of embodiment, justice, and sexuality, helping people overcome shame, heal trauma, and come back into relationship with their bodies. A former Miss Canada, she was named Canada's "Woman of the Year" in 2011, received an International Heroes award from the Joy Smith Foundation, and was presented with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee medal in recognition of her human rights work to combat human trafficking. She lives with her three young children on the unceded traditional territories of the Kwantlen and Katzie First Nations, in Vancouver, Canada.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Juniper on January 26, 2024

Powerful words and ideas. A must-read if you've lived through religious, emotional, sexual, and/or physical trauma or have been on the receiving end of sexism, racism, or any -ism in between.......more

Goodreads review by Bob on August 07, 2023

Summary: Written by an embodiment coach and somatic practitioner, this book advocates for re-connecting with our bodies and names the different ways we have been estranged from our bodies through beliefs about the body, shaming, traumatic abuses, and political oppression and how we can learn to list......more

Goodreads review by Meg on July 24, 2024

A very inspiring, thought-provoking read indeed. This year has been very transformative for me and I’ve spent a lot more time in tune with my body. I feel it was the right time to read this and be able to properly internalize it and know how it resonates with my own life. The only part of the book I......more

Goodreads review by Holly on April 27, 2024

Wow! Easy five stars! The brilliant Tara Teng has written a beautiful, gentle invitation for all of us to engage with our bodies - such a huge part of who we are - in a new, loving, accepting way that most of us have never known how to do until now. I truly only wish I read this earlier. My teenage,......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on January 11, 2024

A really great intro into embodiment work and deconstructing all the cultural garbage that we get about how to feel about our bodies. Teng then connects embodiment work with greater consciousness building, advocacy, and revolutionary community building. Learn how to trust yourself, learn how to trus......more