Soma: An Anarchist Therapy

From Susan over at Easy Bake Coven:

With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian military dictatorship, 79 year-old Roberto Freire continues to develop somatherapy, completing his life's work. Incorporating the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of authoritarianism. Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of somatherapy. Back Story.

I'm glad to have discovered this work. My own work delves deeply into Riechian principles of body armouring and suppressed emotions. As Riech said, the real problem behind radical conservativism, facism and authoritarianism is severe body armouring. A dissolution of body armor results in things like pleasurable body-centered emotional integration, polymorophous sensuality, sex positive and loving personal and communal relationships.