Hi, I’m Deanna Sophia Danger of Sovereign Somatics. I write about & guide somatics as a system of revolutionary change. 💥 🌿
If your’e looking for the clinical, watered down, therapeutic route, you won’t find it here. ✋🏻 What you will find are accessible, real-life-relatable, playful and creative ways to shapeshift the patriarchal exploitative systems that wreak havoc on your bodymind sovereignty, and block the collective action through solidarity we all need to be practicing with our neighbors.
The tools & healing I weave have grounds in Radical Dharma, politicized somatics, systems change, revolutionary astrology, and subversive art. I myself am a retired subversive performance artist & sex worker, with a background in mass media, I’m an IPV & trauma survivor, and recent expat of the nonprofit industrial complex. Over a lifetime of not fitting into dominant culture status quo systems, I finally cultivated enough revolutionary transformation of my own pain, and in the process grew an entire ecosystem of somatic tools & modalities that make the old crumbling systems, obsolete.
I identify as queer, nonbinary, neuroexpansive, chronically ill, anarchist and timeless (j/k I’m an xennial, but I’ve been graciously adopted by Gen Z). I’m an Aquarius Sun & Mercury, Leo Rising, Virgo Moon + stellium, cat parent, and Sci-Fi / Faentesy nerd. I live in St. Louis and facilitate STL Queer Sangha | Radical Dharma & Meditation Group, and serve on the advisory council at Empowered Spaces.
I choose to share here at Substack because I savor the long and often paradoxical route, and engaging with community in a way that invites depth & intimacy. I love long form writing, elegant & simple solutions to complex problems, deep metamystical dives, and accompanying folks on the journey of learning to be more at home in their own skin. I am of the last generation that remembers what it is like to live smart phone FREE (bless), and I think a lot about consciousness, reality, spirituality, collective liberation, anti-capitalism, and midwifing the next human era in a regenerative & relational way that looks out for our next 7 generations of ancestors.
Why subscribe?
I am part of the survivor-led, proletariat, somatic healing ecosystem. I believe in humanity’s ability to choose to participate in regenerative ecosystems that are locally & non-commercially driven, counter-oppressive and harm reductive. By choosing to subscribe and support me as an innovator, creative, and somatic guide, you are choosing to support someone who also needs the support of their community. My work in the world is aimed to restore emotional, spiritual & material wellbeing, which intrinsically involves participatory, mutual politicized praxis.
We ALL have a place in the world that is being rebirthed. Uprooting the causes & conditions that created the isolation, violence, hate, delusion & greed all pattern back to changing these systems in ourselves, our relationships, our communities.. Our gnosis is our praxis. You can check out more about my credentials, values, training, and commitments here.
We keep us safe is not just a clever protest slogan. It’s intentional, everyday, real life rawthentic action.
If you find that the energy I share here contributes to your own reimagining of a life built in regenerative living, a monthly subscription fosters your participation in the global survivor-led ecosystem.
Plus it’s hella good karma.
Your subscription contribution is also paid forward!
I donate 3.33% of my Substack subscriptions to Coahoma Orchards is a St. Louis based urban orchard “direct action” dedicated to the cross cultural heritage of Native and African people, food sovereignty and combating climate change. The 3.33% is representative of The Three Jewels and the practice of “dana,” or generosity in Buddhist lineage I practice.
So if you’re here reading this, hopefully I’ve made it a no-brainer to subscribe for $8 and invest in this local ecosystem creative change.
