Hi, I'm Selahm
I'm founder of Rage Camp, Liberatory and Organizational Biomimicry, and the Unleashing Aliveness Liberatory Practices Deck. I facilitate embodied liberation immersions and coach the brave to unleash their aliveness, escape oppression, and lead their communities to liberation. In my free time, I make art! The homepage image is a woodcut print of me screaming. I carved that image when I was 19, during the worst year of my life when I wanted to burn the world.
Selahm Skybird Beman they/them
After Rage
there is only more love
Rage Camp Ceremony is a 4-day embodied liberation intensive to LEARN how to feel rage, express it safely, and catalyze the power so you can act to impact your world.
Movement is the first medicine. From the movement of the big bang, to the movement of your bio-parents sperm and egg, to the movement of hopping when you stub your toe, we move to move life forward.
Rage Camp Nights are weekly 3-hour embodied liberation catharsis sessions to release the backlog of pentup rage weekly so we do not burn ourselves, our children, and our movements with unfocused, uncatalyzed, unhelpful rage.
In honor of the many rage practices lost, preserved, and waiting to be discovered. I contribute Rage Camp as my humble offering to human Reclamation. This practice is woven of many wisdoms and amplifies the most powerful and tender ways I've found to reclaim human aliveness.
Browse my free library - read my thoughs on Oppression, Liberation, Aliveness, and Rage
What We Do
Prep and Debrief
Rage Camp is a embodied catharsis ceremony. Just like many ceremonies where humans move to become more free, we will also choose an animal mask to wear while we move, to move past our self-imposed human fear, doubt, and repression into our impulsive, powerful, wild, liberated nature. We choose the medicine we need at each stage of preparation, and in group debriefs at the end of the catharsis.
Play Loud Music
Rage Camp Ceremony features live drum, rattle, and sound bath music by the space-holders faciliation team and Rage Camp Nights curate a playlist of music. In both, the music starts out mellow, builds up intensity, and then calms back down. This allows the music to guide us to states of intensity that can feel hard to access and teaches our nervous system how to calm back down after high-energy states, like anger.
The music is loud and participants can bring earplugs if they have concerns or hesitations about loud music.
Move Our Bodies
We move our bodies in whatever ways feel safe and accessible to us. Rage Camp takes place in one large room, but we each follow the impulses of our own practice rather than "dancing" together. Our focus is to follow our own desires, impulses, and feelings, regardless of what anyone else is doing. We take up space, follow the leadership of our own bodies, minds, and hearts, and use the collective energy to break through the barriers that stifle our freedom of expression.
Why We Do It
Wellbeing
There are many painful side effects of pent up rage. Indigenous and western medicines attribute many physical and emotional health problems to pent-up rage, and the fear, shame, and grief that rage tries to protect. There is research linking cancer, heart problems, depression, anxiety, eating imbalances, relationship challenges, sleep issues, and more to pent up rage. If you try Rage Camp, you can explore the benefits for yourself, in your own lived experince.
Self Esteem
When we are full of rage, we find it hard to be patient with ourselves. But life is hard enough. Others are cruel. We need support from the wise, loving parts of ourselves who know we are doing our best, believe we are worthy of respect, and work to create a just and enjoyable world to live in. When we stifle rage, we take our anger out on ourselves. This creates an experience of life where our external and internal experience is abusive. We cannot control how others treat us, but we can choose to treat ourselves with love and respect.
Change Work
By releasing rage, we increase the time between stimulus and response. When we encounter challenges in our movements, or life circumstances, we can be a skillful adult who takes helpful actions to make meaningful change. When we stifle rage, we get lost in our own anger, engage in cancel culture, and lose the ability to work collaboratively with others. To dismantle systems of oppression we need to take skillful action, not fight our community.
Join a session
Check out our calendar for a list of upcoming sessions in the Bay Area. Contact me to request a session in your area.