Hello, my name is Nazbah Tom, (Diné), They/Them and I am a somatic practitioner. I was born and raised in my homelands of Dinétah in so called Arizona, USA. I have been learning and practicing somatics since 2006. More recently my practice has expanded into teaching and supervising other practitioners as well as working with organizations. Other ways I spend their time include hiking, fishing, woodworking, and reading a wide range of books.
The somatics I offer is a combination my training in drama therapy and generative somatics with an infusion of my traditional worldview as a Diné. I have been in a question of how to share the principles of the Diné cosmologies with clients, course participants, supervisees, and audience members to support their healing and learning. What we call land, or as my people know her, Nahasdzáán, has shaped my sense of who I am and the work I do. This wisdom is woven throughout my work. It is my understanding that each Indigenous community has in their language how to be in relationship with Nahasdzáán, so there are general principles that are practiced within many Indigenous communities, but the specific ways to practice them can only happen on their unique homelands. In much the same way, somatics then is a language that allows us to be in relationship to the homelands of our somas (mind, body, spirit) with an intention of illuminating how we have been shaped by the over culture that privileges domination as a worldview.
The somatics I offer is a combination my training in drama therapy and generative somatics with an infusion of my traditional worldview as a Diné. I have been in a question of how to share the principles of the Diné cosmologies with clients, course participants, supervisees, and audience members to support their healing and learning. What we call land, or as my people know her, Nahasdzáán, has shaped my sense of who I am and the work I do. This wisdom is woven throughout my work. It is my understanding that each Indigenous community has in their language how to be in relationship with Nahasdzáán, so there are general principles that are practiced within many Indigenous communities, but the specific ways to practice them can only happen on their unique homelands. In much the same way, somatics then is a language that allows us to be in relationship to the homelands of our somas (mind, body, spirit) with an intention of illuminating how we have been shaped by the over culture that privileges domination as a worldview.
Individual Work
Courses
I am excited to offer two courses in collaboration with colleagues, Fayza Bundalli and Kai Cheng Thom. We have BODIES OF MEDICINE and SOMATIC RESURGENCE courses open for registration. More information available at the tabs above and links to apply are below.
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this mentorship was everything--beautiful, tender, awe-full, anchoring. fayza and nazbah hold space with such intentional care. as someone who was hesitant to identify as a practitioner, my time in bodies of medicine really clarified my desire to (re)claim practitionership in reaffirming my connection to spirit and lineage. there was something special about learning how to soften in new ways and honoring my body's wisdom. there are lots of social justice adjacent spaces that attempt to invite all parts of us and do so unsuccessfully; bodies of medicine was one of very few spaces i've felt comfortable enough to unfurl completely as a brown queer disabled femme and allow myself to simply be. i'm so incredibly excited to continue this work, carrying all that i've learned from this mentorship--orienting to aliveness, leaning into longing, stepping into invitations to move differently, softer, slower. - Ammara
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