Teachings
Readings and reflections, as they're written.
The Endurance Runs in Us: What My Ancestors Taught Me About Resilience in the Age of ICE
What the Rarámuri taught me about resilience: ancestral endurance, colonial history, and finding strength in lineage in the age of ICE.
October 12, 2025
The Inner Critic and the Deeper Self
The inner critic vs. the deeper self: a Toltec-rooted somatic practice for telling domestication's voice apart from your own.
October 8, 2025
Why School Feels Disconnected for So Many Children and Teachers—And How to Fix It
Indigenous boarding school history and somatic learning trace why school feels disconnected today—and the Liberated Learning Model's path forward.
September 28, 2025
Reciprocal Belonging
Reciprocal Belonging, the foundational pillar of Liberated Learning: why belonging is unconditional from birth, and how colonial systems taught otherwise.
August 4, 2025
Restorative Culture
Restorative culture vs. punishment in schools: why they're not two versions of accountability, and what repair actually looks like when it works.
July 24, 2025
Embodied Learning
Embodied Learning, one of Liberated Learning's four pillars: why the mind-body split in schooling was made, not natural—and how to rejoin it.
July 8, 2025
Relational Ecology
Relational Ecology, one of Liberated Learning's four pillars: why belonging—not compliance—is the actual foundation of how children learn.
June 8, 2025
Somatic Alchemizing: How to Feel Through the Waves
Somatic alchemy: a practice for meeting pain as messenger, not enemy—repairing your relationship to feeling itself, wave by wave.
May 12, 2025
Your Body Knows How to Repair
Punishment and repair both live in the body. A somatic practice—Regulate, Reflect, Repair—for coming back to connection after rupture.
April 12, 2024
Learning as Repair
Boarding school history, the spiral of healing, and what it means to teach as repair — a Rarámuri-rooted look at learning and the body.
February 8, 2024
4 Practices to Navigate Change
Four grounded practices—writing, affirmation, action, accountability—for teachers staying true to their values through constant change.
September 28, 2023
Relationship Is the Pedagogy
Culturally responsive teaching and the neuroscience of relationship: how authentic student-teacher connection shapes learning and school climate.
August 18, 2023
What is Somatic Social-Emotional Learning (SSEL)?
What is Somatic Social-Emotional Learning? How body awareness, movement, and embodied practice deepen SEL for classrooms and homes.
May 22, 2023
Restorative Relationship Transformation
A teacher's story of trading zero-tolerance discipline for restorative practice—how one relationship, rebuilt with care, changed a whole classroom.
April 24, 2023
Our Story
How a fifth-grade classroom led to Liberated Learning Institute - where Indigenous wisdom, somatic practice, and community reclaim education as liberation.
March 14, 2023