CONTRA-TIEMPO and Village Well Books & Coffee invite you to join An Embodied Book Club—a dynamic, participatory series creating space for embodied dialogue, movement, and storytelling inspired by Sonya Renee Taylor’s groundbreaking book The Body Is Not an Apology.

Rooted in creative play, improvisation, breathwork, and collective movement practices, this four-workshop experience explores the power of radical self-love and our shared capacity to resist body-based oppression. Together, participants engage Taylor’s unapologetic, body-liberating writing through lived experience, imagination, and community practice—moving ideas off the page and into our bodies.

Across the series, participants will co-create an embodied performance piece, weaving personal stories with collective wisdom and joy. The journey culminates in a celebratory gathering featuring a live performance of CONTRA-TIEMPO repertoire, accompanied by live music and a DJ, amplifying rhythm, connection, and the liberatory power of dancing together.

Come ready to read, move, reflect, and imagine—building meaningful belonging through bodies in motion, radical welcome, and collective joy.