Kapok
About
Kapok
Center for Somatic Education, Research-Creation, and Therapy.
Kapok is a school dedicated to somatic education, integrating knowledge from different disciplines, techniques, and somatic methods.
Its purpose is to facilitate experiences and learning for people who wish to improve their relationship with their bodies, with nature, with others, and with the Earth.
Music therapy and ancestral healing traditions are an essential part of the educational processes.
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Mission
To share and expand knowledge based on somatic experience within the local community in an accessible way, through educational processes, research-creation, and therapeutic work.
Vision
To be a space where people can access somatic knowledge, contributing to a more humane, creative, and healthy society, rooted in a respectful relationship with the body and with nature.
Values
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pro yects
Somatic Education, Research-Creation, and Therapy.
Research-Creation
This area is dedicated to creative thinking that emerges from embodied experience and connection to the body. It seeks to integrate knowledge from different disciplines with the somatic field.
There are currently two ongoing research projects:
The first explores the effects of patriarchal, capitalist, and racist systems on our bodies. It also examines how the somatic experience of our organs and brains allows us to navigate both social environments and our internal bodily world.
The second explores the aesthetic experience of movement and the rhythms of our organs and bodily fluids. From this research, a movement methodology is being developed.
Research-creation grounded in somatic experience also gives rise to artistic pieces.
Therapy
Kapok offers trauma-informed somatic therapy.
This work is complemented by practices and knowledge from music therapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Maria
Aguilar
María Aguilar is a therapist and educator of somatic movement of the Body Mind Movement, with complementary studies in somatic approaches in different movement and touch practices.
She is certified in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, which allows her to support people through sessions and classes sensitive to the processes of the body, the nervous system, and trauma.
In her practice, she integrates knowledge of Music Therapy and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
She is a sociologist, dancer, movement researcher, artist, and holds a master’s degree in education specialized in artistic and movement education.
