RAGEher: a movement and embodiment experience for women to turn our in-rage into out-rage
A space to talk it out. Punch it out. Primal scream it out. DANCE it out… with other powerful women in community. So we can use our anger—and the relief and power we feel in accessing and expressing it—as fuel for all the things we want to breathe into existence in our lives.
This 2.5-hour workshop, modeled after a girls’ night out, is divided into three parts:
1. The Tempest Tavern: arrive, meet, absorb
We will start by choosing our rageling names, getting to know each other through the lens of this powerful feeling, and learning about the context and purpose behind anger.
2. Fury Floor: ground, move, release
This 45-minute facilitated musical arc will invite us to ground ourselves, move our bodies in whatever way feels good, and start to express anger through our bodies and using our voices. During this time, you will be invited into various techniques to support moving the anger through and out!
3. Livid Lounge: connect, decompress, integrate
All great girls nights end with late-night food. While we won’t have freshly made fries, we will connect and talk about the experience over nourishing snacks. You will learn about the continued practice of harnessing anger, how we can use anger towards our satisfaction, and leave with concrete next steps to take into your week and life.
What past Ragelings have said about RAGEher:
“I left RAGEher feeling lighter and more present. But the big change was the following week. I was so much more clear on my next steps and taking action left and right.”
“Rage and anger are real emotions like joy, love and fear. But from an early age we are thought to suppress them. Being in a safe environment where those emotions can come out made me feel more complete.”
“It was such a great release to be able to yell, hit stuff, and say things I had been keeping to myself!”
“What I got out of the experience is the feeling of the freedom and permission to tap into my anger and rage and to express it openly in a supportive way. I was able to do that along with others who were also with their own anger and rage, which made it both an individual and collective experience. I was able to tap into some buried anger and [was] allowed to really feel it without being judged or told by others not to exhibit such behavior. It was a freeing experience, letting things out.”
Date: Saturday, July 20, 15-17:30
Cost: 45€ or bring a friend for 80€; Sliding scale option for 25€ if you’re ready to rage, but your wallet isn’t
Where: Cozy Yoga + Community, Rua Formosa 63, 4000-250 Porto
How to register: Contact Krissie directly at: krissie@askhuh.com and pay to https://paypal.me/askhuh
About Krissie
Krissie McMenamin (also known by her Rageling name Ignis A. Blaze) is on a mission to spark aliveness by supporting people to feel all their feelings, connect to their yearnings, and live more radiant, authentic (and awkward - who doesn’t love a bit of awkward?) lives. She has been on a multi-year journey of self-discovery, social and emotional intelligence development, and embodiment, learning to be kinder to herself and to trust her inner knowing. From the age of 5, Krissie has created experiences for her friends and Barbies. After a long hiatus, she’s back at it with experiences like The Labyrinth, Jump into Kid-dom, and RAGEher.
A recovering ‘nice girl,’ Krissie co-created RAGEher using her own experience of accessing, connecting with, and harnessing her anger as fuel to go for what she wants, get satisfied, and make a bigger impact on this world.
Krissie has an MBA from Northwestern and a Master’s in Transformational Leadership and Coaching, a two and a quarter year program where she not only studied psychology, human potential, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and other related research, but also applied what she was learning to transform her own life. RAGEher was built from this foundation of psychology, neuroscience, and emotional intelligence.
FAQs
What do I wear?
Dress to move. Dress to dance. Dress as your inner wild woman. Dress to impress yourself and yourself alone, whatever that means to you.
What should I bring?
Bring a yoga mat and yoga bolster or dense pillow if you have them. Don’t have your own? We can provide them!
What should I expect?
You will be in a room with people expressing their emotions physically and vocally. Expect loud noises and lots of movement.
What if I need to remove myself from the space/experience at any point?
There will be a designated area where you can step away. We will have earplugs and notebooks for journaling.
I don’t feel angry. Can I still come?
Absolutely. We’ve been taught that it’s not okay for us, as women, to feel our anger—and many of us have suppressed and squashed it as a result. Whether or not you feel your rage, it’s probably there on some level. There’s righteous wrath behind the hard-earned coping mechanisms of every perfectionist, good girl, girlboss, and woman who ‘has it all together.’ This is a chance to peek behind the facade and explore anger for yourself, however it shows up for you.
Do I really need to let out my anger?
Yes! Unexpressed anger is making women sick. These stats from Soraya Chemaly’s well-researched book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, are scary and important.
“A whole spectrum of health issues is now clearly linked to how people feel and express anger, which directly affects our hormonal system, immunity against disease, heart function, muscles, and skeleton.”
Women suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome at 4x the rate compared to men.
Women are 3x more likely to develop disabling and painful autoimmune illnesses than men.
Women with breast cancer who expressed their anger are 2x more likely to survive than women who kept their anger to themselves.