Belonging Building Blocks

Somatic strategies for mixed people who want to feel grounded, held, and at home in their bodies everywhere they go

Cohort 4 starts March 15, 2026

Registration open February 24 - March 10

Right now, you…

  • Can’t relax in social situations because you don’t feel like anyone really understands you

  • Feel like your identity and mere existence is too complicated for others

  • Self-select out of monoracial-centered spaces because you’re hypervigilant about how others read your racial or cultural identity

  • And you feel like you’re the only one having this experience.

Whether because of your soul-crushing anxiety, or because you feel you don’t phenotypically look Black, South Asian, or Mexican “enough,” you feel trapped both in your body and in a reality that’s wearing you down from connecting with others and building community.

You think you’ll never actually feel like you really belong, because it seems like no one understands you, what you’ve experienced, or what you’re going through.

But belonging isn’t just an experience in real time - it’s a somatic and emotional memory of feeling held and having your existence and reality validated.

And you can (re)create and imprint that memory into your body through somatic practice and connection with other mixed people who totally get you and see you in all your complexity.

It’s time to say buh-bye to feeling uncomfortable around others and worried that you stick out like a sore thumb and finally feel so fucking at home in your own skin.

When you make this shift, you will:

  • Feel safe in your body instead of feeling pulled into a spinning vortex of anxiety.

  • Be able to enjoy socializing even when you’re the only person who looks like you in the room.

  • Be able to build more relationships that reinforce the felt sense of belonging, instead of ruminating over the ones that don’t.

  • Be able to take in the support you do have without rejecting it out of habit, fear that it won’t last, or concern about being a burden

  • Become a co-conspirator in building cultures where people feel like they belong instead of waiting on the sidelines to get called in.

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Introducing…

Belonging Building Blocks

Belonging Building Blocks is a group coaching program for mixed people who want to feel grounded, held, and at home in their bodies.

Get ready to build somatic skills that you can take with you so you feel a deep sense of belonging everywhere you go.

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Here’s what you can expect when you join Belonging Building Blocks

Foundations Retreat

March 15 1-4:30 pm ET

Our first gathering is a 3-hour retreat where we will spend lots of time getting to know each other, co-creating our BBB village, dipping our toes into somatic practices, and planting seeds that we will water throughout the program. I know joining groups can bring up anxiety - you’ll leave this retreat feeling more familiar with your group members and with a better understanding of what to expect in the group practice sessions.

Group Practice Sessions 1-3 pm ET

Each week we’ll explore new somatic practices related to belonging that you can take with you into the world so you can feel grounded and at home in your body everywhere you go. We’ll reflect and discuss together how the practices are landing and how things are going for you outside of sessions.

Week 2: Held

March 22

Learn how to attune to your body’s needs and respond with care. Practice feeling into and receiving support.

Week 3: Earth as home

March 29

Hear from one of my Belonging Besties, Mirabel Ramirez, about the indigenous attachment model and explore your relationship with earth.

Week 4: Return to spirit

April 12

Decolonize your current view on belonging by connecting with your ancestors, the earth, and the more than human world


Break / Week Off

Week 5: Embodying dignity

April 19

Gain a sense of dignity and bodily sovereignty through mindful strength-building practices. Practice enacting psychological boundaries for times when you feel your safety, dignity, or belonging is being compromised.

Week 6: Reaching for longings

April 26

Get more comfortable with the risks involved in expressing curiosity and desire while feeling connected to your roots. Explore your longings in your life and relationships.


Break / Week Off

Week 7: Feeling unmet: Grief ritual

May 10

Presence lost, missing, or bypassed relational experiences with a grief practice. Create space for your grief to flow.

Week 8: Building Intimacy

May 17

Expand your capacity for receiving and providing care.

Harvest Festival

May 24

In the final session, we will take time to process and reflect on our time together. You’ll be guided through any learnings or new skills you’ve harvested during the program, and I’ll help you integrate these things so they stick with you after we close our formal container.

Here's how you'll be supported between sessions AND long after the sessions end

Discounted Deep Dive Calls

Whenever you need some focused TLC, you can book a discounted Deep Dive call (priced at $175 compared to my normal $250) where we’ll process real-life challenges you’re dealing with (emotions, relationships, other situations). We’ll work through any obstacles you’re facing while implementing the skills from the group sessions. You’ll walk away from these sessions feeling even more grounded and confident.

Lifetime Access to Practice + Connect space

I hold space every-other-month for all current and former participants of my 1:1 and group programs to gather, connect, and freshen up on your somatic skills. There will be one P+C space during our program (in April) and you’ll have lifetime access to all the subsequent gatherings

Digital Workbook

You’ll receive a digital workbook with information on all the major concepts we’re covering, including most of the practices (I say most because may add some in on the fly here and there) so you can learn, digest, and really implement deeply on our calls AND reference back to our work long after our time is done.

Between-Session Support

We’ll use Signal to connect throughout the week between calls. I’ll share a weekly prompt to help you keep integrating what you’re learning, and you can share other thoughts and ask questions - of me and each other!

Optional Buddy System

You’re here because you’re tired of figuring everything out on your own and you’re craving connection with other people who just get it. The Buddy System is an optional feature where you can build a relationship with another participant, and talk through content and practices outside of our group sessions.  Past participants who have made use of the buddy system have gotten a lot more out of the program! I will facilitate pairing through a shared contact list and check-ins throughout the program so you can sign on for this feature from the start or later on, once you’re a little more comfortable.

Photos in this section sourced from Disabled and Here and The Gender Spectrum Collection

Your Investment

Standard rate $1,075


Sliding scale $700–$1,200
2 and 4 monthly payment plans available

Hi friends

I’m Raina (she/her).

I struggled with belonging for most of my childhood and early adulthood. I always had friends, but I never really felt secure in those friendships or calm in new situations until I found somatics.

That journey started when I began practicing yoga, and then became a teacher myself, and it continued once I went back to school to become a therapist and trained as a somatic-oriented trauma therapist.

During the racial uprisings of 2020 I saw a huge need for more spaces that spoke to the experience of multiracial and multicultural people and I began to work towards the offerings that are now housed within Mixed Race Belonging..

Belonging Building Blocks is really my baby. It’s a space I would have benefitted tremendously from at many points in my life. I created this program because for years I’ve seen the power of somatics in helping people heal relational, racial, and colonial wounds, and I know first-hand how transformative building relationships with other mixed people is. In Belonging Building Blocks, you get to do both.

This upcoming cohort is the fourth one and I can’t wait to welcome you into our growing community and share this powerful approach with you!

What’s possible when you join Belonging Building Blocks

From settling to bravely taking steps towards more fulfilling relationships

Before working with me, Katy (Filipina & Irish) had already started doing some great healing work around her relationships. 

She was practicing setting boundaries...but then she would often waffle on them. She was scared of asserting her boundaries or letting go of relationships because what if she was “supposed” to just work with what was going on?

When I talked about somatics of belonging in Belonging Building Blocks, Katy says this CRACKED OPEN this other way to think about the world that she hadn’t had before; it gave her an entirely different vantage point to think about her relationships.

When I taught the group how to attune to your body’s wisdom, Katy realized she had internalized the concept of accepting people for who they were in a way where she was abandoning her own intuition and needs.

Because of the work we did on restoring her body’s belonging blueprint, she ended up walking away from a relationship where she had been feeling unsatisfied for a long time and set new goals for how she wanted to deepen her relationship with herself and her community.

Katy, Filipina & Irish

How Jas went from feeling unfulfilled in her relationship to feeling secure and satisfied with her partners care

Jas frequently felt unfulfilled with the ways their partner and friends expressed care. As a highly-attuned and giving person, she felt like she was doing a lot more than them, and wanted more in return.

As we moved through the relational movement cycle practices, Jas started to see that she was often so focused on the ways they weren’t meeting her needs that she was missing the ways they were expressing care.

The parts work we used in BBB helped Jas’s unsatisfied parts to feel witnessed and held in the way they were experiencing things. And because she was able to deepen a relationship with her feelings and better understand them, she felt more available to open up to noticing the ways her community was showing up for her. As a result she was able to feel more secure in her existing relationships as they were.

She says her friendships have improved since the program, her community is feeling stronger, and she feels more equipped in her relationship with her partner to receive love and care in the ways they are able to express it.

Jas, Black & white Biracial

How one participant realized they weren’t so different afterall

One participant (white & Cambodian) joined Belonging Building Blocks because they’d known for a while that they’d never had a feeling of belonging, and that being mixed was a big part of that equation. 

When the group first started, they honestly felt pretty overwhelmed and afraid to participate. They wanted to dive in and be a part of the group, but it brought up old and familiar feelings of being an outsider, being “separate” from others.

Over the course of Belonging Building Blocks, as they watched other people in the group, they realized that they were among others who had also felt like outsiders. In their own words, “Raina’s ability to validate everyone’s experiences was comforting and encouraging,” and it increased their comfort with naming some of their own experiences, asking questions when they were confused, and sharing about how they experienced the exercises.

Opening themself up in this way increased their sense of belonging with the group. And this experience, in turn, helped them gain more awareness of how they approach group settings and how they can support themselves in more intentionally integrating into groups instead of assuming a “separate” position.

white & Cambodian

BBB is right for you if:

  • It’s hard to feel comfortable in your own skin and you want that to change

  • You feel stuck in a pattern of avoidance or people-pleasing and need insight

  • You are open to actually connecting with other people. During our calls I request that camera are on because we are doing relational work, but there will be times when you are more than welcome to be off camera so that you don't feel too "perceived" :) Most people end up liking this set up, because you really do feel more connected to others when you can see them - and it tends to help folks practice “unmasking” so you can show up more fully as yourself everywhere you go.

  • You want to develop the relational skills needed to move the collective toward liberation — BBB is an explicitly anti-racist, access-oriented, pro-Black, pro-queer, pro-trans, pro-sex worker space.

  • ​You have some basic skills in taking care of yourself should you feel overwhelmed during our sessions

BBB might not be the right fit if:

  • You can't attend most of the sessions - This is relational work and half of the impact is doing it together. It’s ok if you know you have to miss a session or two - life stays lifing!. If you need to miss three or more sessions, now might not be the right time for you to participate. It’s also important that you can attend the first session so we can all get to know each other. Sessions will be recorded, so if you need to miss one you can catch the replay.

  • You aren't sure if it will feel emotionally safe for your body - you are welcome to schedule a free 30-minute consultation call with me to mutually determine if BBB is a good fit for you

  • You're looking for more of a group talk therapy / pure dialogue vibe - We will talk and process, but we will also be doing experiential somatic exercises

  • You're looking for a quick fix for major emotional distress - BBB is not psychotherapy, nor a substitute for it. In fact, I recommend that you have a therapist or a supportive network you can process with outside of our sessions.

“The place in which I fit will not exist until I make it.”

- James Baldwin

FAQs

  • Whether you identify as mixed, biracial, multiracial, or something else, you are welcome here. If you’re white-assumed, you are welcome here. If you only grew up around your white one side of your family, you are welcome here. If you don’t know any other mixed people, you are welcome here. If you have other intersectional identities - queer, adopted, disabled, undocumented, poly, kinky, neurocomplex - you are welcome here.

  • You will like this program if you like an experiential approach. We will be engaging with different somatic exercises in an experimental way to get you more connected to your body and to others. This process is incredibly special and rewarding, and can feel quite vulnerable at times. You are of course in choice the whole time about which exercises you do and don’t want to try.

  • When you register you’ll fill out a brief intake form. The questions I ask on that intake helps me make sure everyone is a good fit for this program. After I review it you’ll get your invoice to pay and save your spot. If I have any questions I will reach out to schedule a brief call with you to further determine fit.

  • 10 people maximum. The program will not run if there are less than 5 participants.

  • Belonging Building Blocks has previously welcomed participants from places such as the UK and Canada. I’m happy to welcome you no matter where you are, while holding the truth that race and the mixed race experience varies from region-to-region.

  • Here is a link to a short questionnaire that can help you decide. You may ultimately choose where you fall on the sliding scale. I don’t ask for proof, I trust you to select the rate that falls within your means. If you can afford to pay more, please do - this helps support others who need a lower rate. If you need the lower rates, great! That’s why they exist.

  • Belonging Building Blocks is a skills-focused program that comes with the added benefit of learning these skills in community with other mixed folks. In 1:1 coaching, Bold Belonging, you do learn skills, but we also go deep to get to the root of your belonging wound (kind of like you might in a therapeutic setting) and you identify a belonging project that you want to accomplish as part of our time together.

Join us

Don’t spend another year of your life feeling out of place in your own skin. Inside Belonging Building Blocks you’ll learn the skills you need now to feel grounded and at home in your body everywhere you go and be able to make connections that reinforce that feeling for the rest of your life.

Registration will open February 24th - get on the waitlist to be the first to know when doors open.