about SÍOFRA she/they

(SISTER SADADA JACKSON) 

artist | educator | healer

i am a student of embodied liberatory practices: i live in my body and vacation in my mind. i am a black nipmuc of irish decent. as an embodied liberation teacher, i work with individuals and groups who do the work of healing and educating. the aim of my work is to resource and guide embodied liberation in our relationships and structures.

i believe that a love-based relationship with all of our bodies is essential to liberation. centered in this belief, i guide others in embodying liberation from these bodies: physical/causal, emotional/mental, spiritual/subtle, and social/political. i approach my work as a guide, supporting and resourcing others' development and deepening of embodied, love-based ways of being. i use movement, yoga, breath, reiki, ritual, and ceremony in partnership with the earth elements when i work with individuals and groups.

in my work, i maintain a clear and generative heart and mindset. i rely on the partnership of my labor and the labor of those i work with to inform our time together. i am deeply committed to care, access, love, spaciousness, and liberation for all beings: unseen and seen.

my commitments are rooted in my black and indigenous identities and traditions. for more than 20 years, I have been a practitioner of contemplative practices in buddhist and yogic traditions. i have been a fire-keeper in the mayan tradition for more than 15 years, and, for the past three, a student and practitioner of celtic earth-based divine masculine and feminine practices.

MY LABOR, FOCUS, AND VALUES

for over 18 years i have provided guidance to groups, teams, and individuals in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. from leadership development to instructional solutions and transformational change, I focus on curating the causes and conditions for liberatory practices—and liberated practitioners.

my central values are clarity, creativity, care, sovereignty, connection, radicle self-love

  • i have pursued education for 14 years of my life, earning a bachelor's of arts in theatre and a master's of education in secondary english language arts with a special education focus from umass boston. i earned a second master's degree in theological studies in indigenous traditions from harvard university's divinity school.

  • my classroom training was through the boston teacher residency program: a residency-based teacher-training framework. i trained as a yoga teacher with bo forbes in her 200-hour program and tracee stanley's level 1 and 2 tantric meditation training. my elders and teachers, nan jauna pacheco and tat juan gonzalez, taught me to be a fire-keeper.

    i have completed many hours of professional development, both online and in-person, over the past 25 years, focused on teaching and learning, program and curriculum development, and continuing education for a variety of yoga-based practices/topics.

  • For two decades, i have taught dance in schools, studies, community centers, and retreat contexts. for more than 15 years i have taught hatha and therapeutics yoga in the same settings. for more than 10 years, i taught in boston public schools, and was a program director/manager in the same school system for four.

    i am currently a reiki ii practitioner .

    for 8 years i have been contracting and consulting with groups or individuals in the united states, europe, and the uk.

  • i am an enrolled member of the hassanamisco nipmuc band. i work with lama rod owens as a teaching and learning guide.

disclaimer: this is only a summery of my education, training and experience. if you need a more complete/specific information complete the contact me form.

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