Erin Trent Johnson is a Black Mama Body, embodied coach and liberation guide, storyteller, facilitator. Erin lives by the words of the Combahee River Collective Statement, “If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.”

Erin is the Creator of Black.Mama.Body. Experience an embodied communal healing and creative refuge and abundant homeplace for Black, Indigenous and women and femme bodies of culture. In community, Erin holds spaces that ignite spiritual rebellion and remembrance within systems of extraction and exploitation. Through story, art, ritual, testimony and witness, Black Mama Body is the womb of creation. 

Erin is also the founder of Community Equity Partners, a coaching and consulting practice focused on reimagining systems and institutions that produce Black health and wholeness–Whealth.

As a certified professional coach, trained facilitator of group dynamics, somatics, racial justice, political activism, and community organizing, Erin knows how institutions, systems, and politics function and reproduce harm specifically for Black women, femme, queer, poor and disabled and neuroexpansive bodies. Erin’s purpose and lineage has called on her to hold sacred communal space for Black nourishment, imagination, and the healing of intergenerational, structural, and everyday institutional and personal trauma.

Erin is a journeywoman who practices ritual and deep nerding out and liberatory play.

Erin has coached and facilitated liberated learning and leadership development experiences for people and institutions around the world, trained and mentored coaches and therapists, and continues her practice and study of Somatics, Abolition, and Spiritual  with Black, Indigenous, and Bodies of culture around the world.

Erin is a 5th generation Philadelphian, descendant of the laborers, the healers, the domestic workers, farmers, and wisdom keepers. She lives with her partner in life, Ajamu and daughter Maya. Erin loves to dance, swim, wander, garden and play with her daughter, Maya.

In this episode, we discuss:

Body Wisdom and Health
Soulbattical
White Supremacy
Anti-Racism Practice
Abolitionism
Rest as Resistance 
Rest as Refuge
Mothering
A Practice of Surrendering 
Living The Life of The Living
Black Mama Body Experience
Joy and Grief 
Community
The Power of Healing in Communal Spaces 

Connect with Erin Trent-Johnson on her website and on Instagram @black.mama.body.experience

Podcast music by Charles Kurtz

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