Explore the Black Body Healing Modality

This black somatic healing modality is grounded in Imani Noel’s lived experiences and the experiences of their ancestors she carries within himself. Explore a healing modality that, through Imani Noel’s body, is designed to help black trans-masculine folk, black trans-femmes, black cis women, black queer and trans people, and other marginalized individuals regardless of race, gender, sexuality, and other nodes of marginalization.

Creative Exploration

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Gentle Witnessing

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Laughter & Play

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Curious Aliveness

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Exploring Expansion

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Creative Exploration ✳︎ Gentle Witnessing ✳︎ Laughter & Play ✳︎ Curious Aliveness ✳︎ Exploring Expansion ✳︎

Our Somatic Services

Explore somatics that center lived experiences, agency/capacity building, and client-driven exploration.

  • Focus on attunement, capacity building, and expansion. Flexibility to incorporate artmaking, play, music, and meditation grounded in the Focalizing container.

    $100-260 per hour

  • Focus on attunement, capacity building, inner-child healing, acknowledging gender dysphoria and shame, while grounding pedagogical presence in gender euphoria. We will focus on agency-building in the classroom and strategies for a healthier, abolitionist, pedagogical authority grounded in a visionary, black, trans-feminist lens.

    Our intention:

    • To build learning environments where safety and intergenerational intimacy are grounded in joy, play, reciprocity, consent, mutuality, and embodied self-regard rather than punishment, coercion, violence, or hierarchy.

    • Determine your whys

    • Determine your boundaries and needs in a teaching environment to feel safe (no shame or blame about this)

    $150-275 per hour

  • Bi-weekly Somatic coaching for 3 months with ongoing engagement throughout.

    • A Personalized Black Body somatic toolkit grounded in resources and supports you already love, including personalized meditations (music, movement), journaling prompts, and mini-body talks (we tailor this to you)

    • Access to Imani Noel outside of sessions

    • Action plans for new habit formation & deshaming when old habits reemerge

    • Exercises to uncover systemic oppression-based shame

    • Homework after each session

    • In-person and/or virtual “play” sessions

    $2000 investment

We welcome these experiences and intersections:

BIPOC

LGBTQIA+

First-Generation, Low-Income Cyclebreakers

The Queer, Trans, & Estranged

The Neurodiverse

Highly Sensitive People (HSP)

Empaths

Complex Trauma Survivors (Folks with CPTSD (symptoms))

(Ex-)Academics

(First-Generation, Low-Income) Artists

The Formerly Incarcerated, Persecuted, and/or Detained

Cult Survivors

Domestic Violence Survivors

Narcissistic Abuse Survivors

Trans Educators

Community Educators, Organizers, & Leaders

Elders

Arts Educators/ Teaching Artists

First-Generation Low-Income Students

Child Sexual Abuse and/or Incest Survivors

Sexual Harassment & Assault Survivors

Bullying & Mobbing Survivors

All People Socialized as Women

Afro-Diasporic Folk

People Whose First Language is Black English

Spiritual & Religious Abuse Survivors

Kinky Folk

Sex Workers

Folks Living with trauma-related chronic pain

Folks Living with chronic illness & auto-immune disorders

Folks healing behavioral addictions & codependency

What they don’t say about the body that hasn’t been attuned to or imagined (i.e., trans bodies) by our primary caregivers, communities, lovers, and/or partners:

  • You might not be able to feel your body (in the sense that you might not know when, where, or how to ascertain where a boundary is)

  • You might fawn when you want to flee or fight; you might judge yourself for wanting to flee or fight

  • You might fawn, without realizing it, because systems and people grooming you award fawning

  • You might feel put upon to brush your teeth and other mundane tasks, even if you do them, that are a part of your basic care (you might not see that this is not depression, but a challenge with perspective or embodied intimacy and self-regard)

  • You might struggle to live a life for yourself and not your parents or family of origin

  • You might judge and shame yourself for your desires

  • You might question your body with suspicion rather than trust it

  • You might not know that you were groomed to be groomed

  • You might associate feelings that signal danger (racing heart, sweating palms, intermittent rewards) with love, affection, or safety

  • You might feel too ashamed of the fact that you have feelings to fully acknowledge them

  • You might not know you aren’t treating yourself as if you are human, or that you are not being treated as if you are human; if you are black and trans you might not know that lack of attunement/access to attunement is grounded in structural oppression (i.e., it is a form of structural oppression)

  • You don’t know what love and safety feel like in your body

  • You prefer to be wrong about your gut feelings than accept that someone chose to harm you

  • You don’t know the difference between feeling and feeling ashamed for feeling

  • Medical transition creates more regulation (and bodily autonomy), while the world seeks to dysregulate us more; you can’t handle all of it at once. Feeling more feels bad because you haven’t felt for so long

  • Gender dysphoria, once one’s body is present, creates more embodied awareness, but from the position of ongoing discomfort; this might create desires to flee into fantasy, intellectualization, and rumination rather than presence

If you’re here, you might relate to what Imani recognized within themselves when they became aware of, and wanting to heal, their complex trauma:

  • Gut Dysregulation

  • Trauma-related chronic pain

  • People pleasing

  • Fear rooted in Boundary Guilt

  • Fawning

  • Gender Dysphoria

  • Toxic Shame

  • Body Dysmorphia

  • Low self-esteem

  • Low self-worth

  • Negative Self-talk

  • Trouble with taking care of your body (this is not merely about exercise)

  • Overexplaining

  • Feeling shame for accurately judging harmful situations

  • Feeling shame for self-advocacy

  • Distrusting your anger

  • Distrusting your body

  • Gaslighting systems rooted confusion

  • Intellectualization

  • Challenges with Grieving

  • Confusion about Personal Values (very normal, these fluctuate)

  • Self-Betrayal

  • Staying in abusive relationships

  • Emotional dysregulation

  • Emotional addiction

  • Codependency

  • Self-abandonment

  • Needing Mutuality, but consistently overinvesting in hierarchy

  • Self-neglect

  • Bilaterally abusive relationships

  • Narcissist/empath relationships

  • Guilt, Shame, & Self-Judgment for Survival Strategies

  • Porous boundaries around your empathy

  • Mistaking self-abandonment for dedication to “the cause” and your values

  • Mistaking Codependency for Compassion

  • Lack of clarity about boundaries (how to set them and what they are), needs, & desires

  • Needing to be picked and/or chosen

  • Ambiguous Grief

  • Attachment longing

  • Loneliness and Limerance

  • Confusing being needed with being loved

  • You do a lot of labor to support yourself and educate your therapists about your gender identity, body dysmorphia, and gender dysphoria in the clinical therapy space

Imani didn’t have all of this language then. They acquired it over time.

You are not alone. No shame or blame to you.

Contact Imani Noel

If you're interested in working with Imani Noel, complete the form with a few details about your interests and goals. We'll review your message and send an intake form within a week.

All potential clients must be working with a licensed therapist or have worked with a licensed therapists for a significant amount of time. Overall, ideal clients are trauma aware—have had some therapy, have some knowledge about their trauma history, familial history, and family system culture/structure, etc.

Somatics is a turn towards deeper work, and it can bring up a lot. Holistic care is useful here. Imani Noel has benefited from creating holistic care for themselves. Imani Noel maintained a therapist—though their therapists were not perfect and the clinical space was not perfect—throughout their journey. They still have a therapist, life coach, somatic mentorship/coaching, and support groups/community spaces.

Somatics will also add value to your therapeutic journey. Focalizing Somatics will give you agency within the traditional talk therapy space.

This boundary will become clear as Black Body Productions expands.