About Me
Lo Höckner
I’m a somatic practitioner, trained in the Pantarei approach and Somatic Experiencing (still in training), as well as trainings in Embodied Social Justice and Activsm. I’m committed to ongoing learning about and integration of approaches from decolonial, anti-racism and liberation psychologies.
Furthermore, I’m initiator of the Embodied Social Justice Learning Circle in Berlin—a place for learning and practicing together as a way to move toward social transformation and as a communal resource, recognizing that we are relational beings and thus, any change we want needs to be in relation.
I came to somatics through my work as a choreographer and performance artist, as well as a deep interest in the body. To discover my body from my own felt experience was cruicial for me in many ways. I therefore wish to make this somatic world accessible to other people.
Furthermore, I aim to create a trauma-informed and sensitive space for people facing discrimination and systemic oppression. I’m committed to practicing self-reflection and continued learning about how oppression affects each person individually and people collectively. I especially offer a sensitive space for queer and trans-related topics, drawing from my own search for such a place as a non-binary, queer person myself.
HOW I WORK
I’m happy to get to know you and to explore together your needs, feelings, doubts, possibilities for growth, self-directedness and the areas that need attention, by entering into a dialogue with your body and physical experience.
I want to support you in meeting your challenges. I don’t operate from a mindset of “fixing” problems or you. Instead, I encourage you to shift into a mode of exploration: By listening to what your body is saying, to the emotions underneath struggles, why they are experienced as such and to the deeper wishes that might be behind them, we give space to what’s present for you.
By giving space to yourself, change can happen from a place of integration instead of disconnection.