About me
Photography by Diana Hagues
I’ve also been practising yoga for over fifteen years, and have trained as teacher in Trauma Informed Yoga and Somatics (200hrs), Chair Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Understanding Neurodiversity for yoga teachers with Barefoot Body Training Yoga & Somatics.
I’m deeply passionate about integrating all these strands by bringing somatics and trauma-informed approach into anti-oppression work.
Hello, I’m Joanna, I’m a white cisgender woman with roots in Central Eastern Europe. I bring to my work my lived experience of white privilege and oppression as an immigrant and someone who identifies as neurodivergent.
My background is in the sociology of race and racism, trauma-informed yoga and somatics. I’ve done my PhD on ethnic relations at the University of Barcelona, and worked for many years in the field of ethnicity, race and migration at the intersection of academia and third sector.
Just before founding ‘Move Rooted’, I was responsible for the University of Cambridge’s successful application for the Race Equality Charter (REC) Bronze recognition (2019), and I led the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Race and Ethnicity Unit. I currently support other Higher Education institutions applying for the REC as Advance HE Associate.