SOMATIC, RELATIONAL, JUSTICE-ORIENTED BOOK CLUB
Read Like a Witch
When you love book club but wanna go deeper
For the spooky, nerdy, and pissed
Craving a book club that goes deep
You don’t just read a book… every cell in your body devours it from every angle. You process one paragraph for days. And maybe you long to sit in an intimate circle of folk — perhaps by candlelight while doing crafts — to not only process the material with the level of depth you crave, but to create restorative, life-giving connections with your book clubbies.
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The relief comes with realizing that in the midst of loss and grief and difficult choices, it is not our task to turn the loss into gain. But rather to be with all of it and make enough space, eventually, for the sorrowful and the beautiful to live side by side.
This is Nature. The Life/Death/Life cycle does not erase loss and decay. It is big enough to hold all of it. And so are we.”
— Dr. Vanya Leilani, The Flesh and the Fruit | Read during our RLW Spring 2026 Circle
Enter… Read Like a Witch™!
Body-based, slow, relational book club
Held with somatic and relational practices designed to expand our capacity for more secure, life-giving relationship with ourselves, others, and with our outer world, Read Like a Witch is a book club meant to help us actually embody the change we read about.
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People are waking up the truth of their manipulation under toxic systems…we will no longer be a martyr for grind culture. Grind culture is a collaboration between white supremacy and capitalism. It views our divine bodies as machines. Our worth is not connected to how much we produce…Our shared history is one of extreme disconnection and denial. We ignore our bodies’ need to rest and in doing so, we lose touch with Spirit. In our bodies we have our temples. It is the only thing we own. Our bodies are a tool agent for change. A site of liberation. Our bodies know. The time for rest is now.”
— Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance | Read during our RLW Fall 2025 Circle
What we do
Read books that combine themes of embodied, relational healing + collective justice (macro healing) + magic
Do somatic practices during each session to stay connected to ourselves and each other as we digest powerful, sometimes challenging material
Leave lots of room for slowness, connection, journaling, reflection, and discussion
Practice real-time relational skills of increasing our capacity for complexity, nuance, and knowing the difference between the discomfort of disagreement vs. being unsafe
Enjoy laughing, silliness, and just being together
We co-create! Because collective energy and wisdom are so important, during each round, we dream up practices, homework, etc. that create an embodied, lived journey with the book we’re reading.
Have fun! We might light candles, do crafts while we process, and we may throw in a collective activism project that relates to the book!
Much more coming soon!
Never fear. More information on logistics, upcoming circles, FAQs and more will be flying into your cauldron soon! Feel free to sign up below to hear when the next circle / event is happening 🖤
