Lorraine Clewer
Lorraine integrates dance therapy, trauma informed yoga, psychodynamic psychotherapy and human rights advocacy into her work with people and communities that have been impacted by structural violence. She has worked for more than 20 years in North Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. She has an M.Phil. in Development Studies and an MSc. in Professional Development: Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology’ from Alef Trust, delivered in partnership with the Professional Development Foundation and accredited by Middlesex University, UK. Her home is in Mexico City.

Lorraine Clewer's articles

  1. Conscious Community Initiative

[EN] Yoga therapy with labour rights activists in Mexico/ [ES] Yogaterapia con defensoras de los derechos laborales en México

[ VERSIÓN ESPAÑOL A CONTINUACIÓN] Self-care and collective-wellbeing for effective, sustainable and transformative social justice movement building With almost 2 billion dollars of goods and services crossing each day, Mexico’s border with the United States embodies how corporate globalisation thrives on economic disparity and social inequality. Workers on the Mexican side are paid approximately a […]
  1. Eco-Community

Facing our shadows to strengthen our discipline: Bringing anti-racist practice into transpersonal practice

Crisis as context Earthquakes, war and other calamitous shocks to our ecosystems often bring inequalities between peoples’ access to rights, resources and respect into sharp and uncomfortable focus.  In normal times we might co-exist with these inequalities. We may be blissfully defended in denial or ignorance.  Or we may be compassionately concerned as individuals, yet […]
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