Decolonising through the body

Join embodiment teacher Kaia Hawkins at Social Design Sydney to explore how colonial patterns and values can become internalised in our bodies and ways of being in the world.

We will explore this through somatic movement practice.

About Kaia

Kaia is a is an Open Floor International Teacher, Manahau Embodied Movement founder+facilitator, artist, and mama. Shaped by both Māori and Pākehā whakapapa/ancestry, their work sits inside the tension of inheritance. Their teaching names how colonisation, dominance, and disconnection are held in the body, and uses movement as a site for resistance + re.pair, remembering, and re-indigenisation. These are not neutral spaces, they are politically aware, relational, and alive - inviting participants to meet themselves honestly, disrupt inherited patterns, and practice other ways of being together.