Some years ago, I started seeing T-shirts and water bottle stickers that said Yoga Is For Every Body—meaning, not just for the Lululemon-clad Sexy Angel Goddess Workshop Leaders among us, or their counterparts, the Handsome Holy Tribal Men, but for every body type, regardless of age, race, size, or flexibility.
Just a few decades ago, yoga was still considered a hallmark of “alternative” lifestyles and the counterculture movement. The sentiment Yoga Is For Every Body, which seeks to reclaim the practice from young, thin, bendy, white women on Instagram, is a testament to its rise in popularity over the past 50 years. An excellent indicator of whether something has become truly mainstream is whether or not it has been co-opted by capitalism.
While I don’t wish for Rage Club to be bastardized by Modern Culture in the same way yoga has, what I do wish is for everyone to experience Rage Club, in Every Body.
What do I mean by Every Body? Perhaps you did not know that you actually have 5 Bodies. Besides your Physical Body, which is made up of blood, skin, flesh, and bones, you have an Emotional Body (made up of feelings and emotions); an Energetic Body (your sense of timing, space, and ownership); and an Intellectual Body (ideas, thoughts, thoughtmaps, thoughtware, and beliefs).
You also have an Archetypal Body, which is activated only when the other four Bodies are nourished. Your Archetypal Body is the gateway to your destiny, your purpose, and your Archetypal Lineage.
Rage Club is a practice in connecting to Anger, which is one of the 4 Feelings in the Emotional Body. It is no coincidence that when you connect to Conscious Anger, you begin to fully incarnate—to be here now, in your Physical Body. You start to keep your Center, the source of your authority in your Energetic Body, around anyone—parents, mentors, so-called gurus, partner(s).
You gain more Clarity in your Intellectual Body about what matters to you. And you may just begin to experience a hint of what it is like for your Archetypal Body to come online.
In fact, Rage Club is a space to connect to all 5 Bodies. It is an initiation into authentic adulthood—the beginning of a journey to take Radical Responsibility for your life and become your destiny in action.
Rage Club is not just for people who have “anger issues.” Nor is it just for spiritual seekers, personal growth junkies, or transformation enthusiasts. It is for Every Body, everybody with a beating heart who longs to experience radical connection and love.
I dream of a day when Rage Club is as “normal” as going to the gym. Of a culture where Feelings are celebrated as neutral life source energy and Emotions as doorways for healing. Where human beings are honored and appreciated not for what they HAVE or DO, but who they ARE—the unique qualities they unfold in the world, simply by virtue of their Being.
This world may not be here yet, but it is on the horizon. In the words of Arundhati Roy: “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
Last week, Rage Club was featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette after I co-held space at Earthdance with my friends and collaborators Daway Chou-Ren and Meredith Witt as part of the USA Possibility Tour. You can read the full article here.
Since June, I have been flying through Archetypal spaces—first an Expand The Box with Vera Franco and Devin Gleeson at Youtopia, followed by a Possibility Lab held by Vera in upstate NY, then the Villaging BridgeHouse in Western MA and the Being With BridgeHouse in Boston (read more about these below).
I feel glad to land back in Brooklyn for two weeks before flying out to Portugal, where I'll spend two months at Tamera, a Healing Biotope and Peace Research Center in the Alentejo.
I warmly invite you to join two in-person events in the time that I'm here: an Introduction to Rage Club this Sunday and a conscious theater initiation called What Is - Happening next Tuesday evening, both located in Bed-Stuy.
Love,
Hannah
