Liminal Messaging is the broadcast channel for Somatic & Embodiment Guide, Dharma Teacher, Systems Poet & WEAVER, Deanna Sophia Danger.
Tune in, drop in, liberate out.
My life has meandered along an unusual and circuitous route that continues to root me deeper into the social change ecosystem roles of both CATALYST and WEAVER. I have been a life long dancer, a professional performance artist, a sex worker, and a record store geek. I have a collegiate background in broadcast mass media (that I did not use professionally), I’m proletariat, xennial, queer, nonbinary, neuroexpansive & nerdy as hell. My work now lands at the intersection of somatics + solidarity, where I guide survivor-led embodiment, dharma and meditation classes & groups. I also work full time as Systems Change & Healing Justice Facilitator with St. Louis Queer Support & Healing (SQSH).
I choose to share here at Substack because I savor the long and often paradoxical route, and engaging with community in a way that invites depth & intimacy. I love long form writing, deep metamystical dives, elegant & simple solutions to complex problems, and accompanying folks on the journey of learning to be more at home in their own skin. I am of the last generation that remembers what it is like to live smart phone FREE (bless), and I think a lot about consciousness, reality, spirituality, collective liberation, anti-capitalism, and midwifing the next human era in a regenerative & relational way that looks out for our next 7 generations of ancestors.
The writings you’ll find here at Liminal Messaging are shared with the intention of merging artful, creative and reflection-provoking narrative, with actionable and relevant concepts for our day-to-day experience. Like the mycelium network shifting nutrients around the forest, through this vessel of systems prose I aim to connect with and tend to the thresholds and liminal pathways in our interdependent experience… so that we together cultivate resources to shed what no longer serves, and unfold into a more connective, present and purposeful life.
Will you step off the edge of the known and trust fall into an existence more mystically mundane???…
Why subscribe?
I am part of the network of survivor-led, somatic healing. I believe in humanity’s ability to choose to participate in regenerative ecosystems that are locally & non-commercially driven, counter-oppressive and harm reductive. By choosing to subscribe and support me as a creative, healer and systems change facilitator, you are choosing to support someone who also needs the support of their community. As a proletariat (working class) IPV & trauma survivor, my work in the world is aimed to restore spiritual & emotional wellbeing, which intrinsically involves participatory social impact.
We ALL have a place in the world that is being rebirthed. Uprooting the causes & conditions that created the isolation, violence, hate, delusion & greed all pattern back to being the change we need and wish to see. Our praxis.
We keep us safe is not just a clever protest slogan. It’s intentional, everyday, mundane action.
If you find that the energy I share here contributes to your own reimagining of a life built in regenerative living, a monthly subscription fosters your participation in the global survivor-led ecosystem.
Plus it’s hella good karma.
Your subscription contribution is also paid forward!
I donate 33.3% of my Substack subscriptions to Counterpublic.org, a St. Louis based organization challenging public discourse and creating systemic change through place-based art and narrative. The 3.33% is representative of The Three Jewels and the practice of “dana,” or generosity in Buddhist lineage I practice.
So if you’re here reading this, hopefully I’ve made it a no-brainer to subscribe for $5 and invest in this local ecosystem creative change.
Learning, Practice & Praxis:
I teach classes & workshops, weekly virtual meditation & somatic practice sessions, and offer virtual 1:1 and group mentoring in the lineage of Engaged Dharma + politicized somatic embodiment. If you’re local to St. Louis, I lead “STL QUEER SANGHA: You Can Sit With Us,” a monthly inclusive sangha for all LGBTQIA+ folks and co-conspirators cultivating a path of Spiritual Solidarity. Meditate to liberate.
Visit my website to learn more about my offerings, certification, praxis, mission, vision, values & accountability…and get FREE RESOURCES (I love giving out free resources)!
