Daniel Minter, When She Dance 2008 (danielminter.net)
Meet Farai
D. Farai Williams (she/her) is a trailblazer at the intersection of embodiment, leadership, and cultural healing. With a deep-rooted curiosity in nervous system-responsive self-care, Farai invites participants to cultivate more mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional spaciousness. Her approach draws on cultural, somatic, and historical learning prompts to de-mechanize the body and restore its natural capacity for presence, connection, and transformation.
A teacher at the Strozzi Institute for Somatics and a dynamic Somatic Muse, Farai brings a body-centered approach that is both rigorous and deeply restorative. Through her work as a facilitator, coach, and founder of Dynamizing Equity, she has guided countless individuals and organizations toward sustainable, soul-aligned change—one breath, one movement, one breakthrough at a time.
Known for weaving somatic wisdom into leadership development and collective healing, Farai doesn’t just teach—she activates transformation from the inside out. Her embodied approach helps clients:
Feel more connected to themselves and others
Access greater choice under pressure
Heal traces of trauma through the body
Communicate with clarity and compassion
Establish healthy, relational boundaries
Farai’s work is an invitation:
to lead with presence, to root in resilience, and to align with what matters most—through the wisdom of the body.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
“In my 20 years of work, engagement and organizing, I’ve never met another artist or educator who is as deeply committed to community authorship and ownership, or who, to quote a young person from our Racial Reconciliation and Healing Program, “just gets it” when it comes to building community and sharing power. Farai took us though a number of activities, expertly increasing in the level of risk, while carefully closing us out each day. Her ability to hold space, was truly magical. As a facilitator/youth worker, I felt utterly safe to fully participate and do some of my own reconciliation and healing work, while Farai calmly managed the affect in the room, guided and celebrated our individual movement and continually brought the participants back into the circle to debrief and make meaning. …As Farai says, “reconciliation and healing is not a neck up activity”. Farai has the ability to laser in on individual processes and connections, but also think and feel systemically, she understands and can work with community as a whole. ”