Place plays a crucial role in both individual and collective wellbeing. As an organisation that centres the body and healing, we recognise that reparations, reconciliation and honouring the history, present and future of the land on which we work and live is intimately related to wellbeing.
Collective Being acknowledges the people of the Kulin Nation, on whose lands we live, work, and learn. We offer our deepest respects and gratitude to Elders past, present, and emerging. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and commit to ongoing practices of decolonisation and right relationship that honour the leadership and self-determination of First Nations people.
We also acknowledge and pay our respects to the diverse and rich First Nations wellbeing, mindfulness and somatic practices that have existed here for tens of thousands of years and continue to exist and thrive on unceded lands across so-called Australia. As an organisation, we are committed to an ongoing process of decolonisation, solidarity, and support of right relationship with this land, its waterways, and the leadership of traditional custodians.
Acknowledgement of Country
Acknowledgement of Practice and Lineage
We honour and pay our respects to the spiritual lineages, practices and traditions that inform our work and practice approach, especially yogic, meditative, and somatic teachings that originated in the lands we know as South and East Asia, Africa and Australia. We acknowledge the ancient roots and the living traditions that continue to thrive, as well as the teachers, guides and practitioners who have come before us.
As a collective of practitioners, we honour our diverse lineages and ancestries. We pay our respects to the ancestors who came before us and who guided us here to this collective commitment to embodied social change. We recognise the complex ways in which colonisation, privilege and oppression shape our lineages and lived experiences, and the unique healing work carved out for each of us as diverse individuals, engaging in somatic and spiritual practices, and living on unceded, sacred lands.