This experiential workshop introduces participants to an awareness of how they can relate to their bodies and how they can practice returning to a grounded and centred way of being through somatic practices. By engaging in these practices, participants can utilize it to set an intention for this particular conference, to engage in what can be difficult anti-oppressive processes including conversation, learning new information, and engaging in building a world we all want to live and thrive in. If oppressive dynamics shape us to think, feel, and behave a certain way to support those oppressive systems, we can also become aware of how we have been shaped and begin to push back on those oppressive systems by learning to be in our somas (mind/body/spirit) so it is more aligned with our values and what we care. Usually how we have been shaped by oppressive systems is misaligned with our own values and who or what we care about.