Sage Hayes

"When you just don’t fit the categories, it’s like the stages of grief, because to fit feeds our sense of safety. That grief and outrage has facilitated my seeking higher powers. The depths of despair and grief facilitated my spiritual journey." - Sage Hayes

This episode of Queer Spirit interviewed Sage Hayes, a practitioner of somatic alchemy based in Maine. The conversation included Hayes's upbringing in a Congregational Church, the centrality of embodiment and centering, and the nature of trans-ing spirituality and sexuality.

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About

Sage Hayes, who uses she, he and they pronouns, is a white bodied practitioner of somatic alchemy. They are dedicated to working towards collective healing and liberation. Sage grew up and is currently living on unceded territories of the Wampanoag / Narragansett native peoples. Sage is supported by Italian / Swedish / German / Scottish lineages of birth and adopted families.

Sage is a lead teaching assistant with the Somatic Experiencing Institute and integrates biodynamic craniosacral therapy, systemic constellations, dance, intuitive practices, and somatics. An educator, a community organizer, and a healing arts practitioner, Sage is inspired to midwife nervous system supremacy into evolutionary and collective embodied practices of nourishment, connectivity, rest and liberation which serve the all/the we.