Teng’s passion will motivate readers on the path to
bodily acceptance.
-Publishers Weekly
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Your Body is a Revolution
The debut book by Tara Teng, “Your Body is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies, Each other, and the Earth” explores all the ways we are disconnected from our bodies and is an invitation to reclaim what has been stolen from us, to embrace the wisdom our bodies long to share, and to fully inhabit our lives--perhaps for the first time.
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Praise for Your Body is a Revolution:
Dr. Hillary L. McBride, therapist, author, speaker, podcaster
"Although it would have been an easier path to instruct us how to be in our bodies in one particular way, Teng does the braver and more skillful thing of calling us to be in relationship with our own bodies, to let our own sensuality light the way to a more liberated future of connection."
Dakota Bear, Indigenous Rights Activist, Rapper, Co-Founder of Decolonial Clothing
"This is a book that I highly recommend to anybody searching to decolonize their life through embodiment. It is a must-read to gain the insight and inspiration that's needed in today's world. Having hard conversations is something we need to move forward in a good way as a collective of human beings on Mother Earth."
Cindy Wang Brandt, author of Parenting Forward and You Are Revolutionary
"As someone who has religious trauma, nothing has been more transformative for my recovery than learning the language of my body. Our bodies are speaking to us all the time, but too often we dismiss them to our own detriment. In this book, Teng shows us the way to pay attention to our bodies, to trust in them, to fall into our bodies and in love with them. It will change everything."
Coach Yeamah, creator of Confidently Queer
"As a queer, Black femme, I am struck and impressed by Teng's intentionality in making the reader aware of her own intersections and the ways they inform her work and service to the world. She rejects assumptions and broad statements that often dismiss the experiences of marginalized bodies. This book truly welcomes all bodies to the table to heal and live fully in our truest, most authentic forms."
Dr. Laura Anderson, Center for Trauma Resolution and Recovery, and the Religious Trauma Institute
"With authenticity, passion, and conviction, Teng has written a book that both challenges the reader and points them back to their most valuable resource: their body. Teng's work reveals the disservice that has occurred for generations through systems of oppression that have required humankind to live from a space of disconnect from themselves, the collective, and the Earth. Simultaneously, Teng offers hope through education, research, and tangible somatic practices to find a way back to ourselves."
Jamie Lee Finch, embodiment coach and author of You Are Your Own
"Reading this book feels like being tenderly coached into a deeper awareness of your body and the stories they have to tell. The earth, and every living body within it, has needed this book to exist for a long time. Teng's willingness to birth this deep wisdom into the world is a powerful gift and one that can profoundly change us all--if we let it."
Morgan Day Cecil, creator of The Feminine Wholeness™ Method
"Tara Teng is a beautiful voice of both timeless and urgent wisdom. Through her unique life experience, she is able to weave together a number of intersections to help others on the journey of embodiment and self-reclamation come home to their wholeness. Don't just read this book--experience this book as a revolution for yourself and as an embodied prayer for all other bodies."
Dr. Alma Zaragoza-Petty, author of Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice
"This is a book that will support anyone's journey into breaking generational cycles of disembodiment and disconnection through collective care and reexamination of dehumanization and body-based oppression. By trusting the wisdom embodied within her, she weaves the political and abstract into discernible ways that shift us toward nonviolence. This book is an amazing companion."
David Hayward. author, artist aka “naked pastor”
“Teng articulates a much needed reality for so many who, like me, grew up in a religious culture that dismissed, disregarded, devalued, and demonized the body. It took me years to learn how to appreciate, love, and even happily live in my own body. Plus, as Teng suggests, when we embrace our whole selves, including our bodies, holistically, then we can in turn embrace others and the earth as well. I’m grateful for this book that I think will help people finally heal from unhealthy and destructive anti-body ideas.”
Shannon Harris, singer, actor, composer, author of The Woman They Wanted
"Tara understands that in order to heal individually and as a society we must restore and return that which has been lost or stolen by way of patriarchy, colonization and other oppressive systems. One such item is trust in the inherent goodness and wisdom of our bodies. With major doses of encouragement, Tara’s book guides us practically toward a more loving, conscious relationship with our body. For those coming out of high-control religion, I don’t think a better antidote exists. Along with her skillful coaching, Tara inspires us to imagine a better world where we are in loving relationship with ourselves, with each other, and with our planet.”
Dr. Brendan Kwiatkowski, educator, masculinities researcher
“One of the insidious aspects of disembodiment is forgetting just how disembodied we are. Teng skillfully calls our attention to the various factors that contribute to our individual and collective disembodiment and shows us a path towards greater connection and healing. Teng is absolutely right—this is a revolution, and one that is deeply needed.”
