"Few skills are more central than the ability to settle your body. If you can settle your body, you are more likely to become calm, alert, and fully present, no matter what is going on around you. A settled body enables you to harmonize and connect with other bodies around you, while encouraging those bodies to settle as well. Gather together a large group of unsettled bodies — or assemble a group bodies and then unsettle them — and you get a mob or a riot. But bring a large group of settled bodies and you have a potential movement — and a force for tremendous good in the world. A calm, settled body is the foundation for health, for healing, for helping others, and for changing the world."

— Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands