Public and Urban Policy Doctoral Program at The New School, Research Fellow at Tel Aviv University. DeepWork Web3 Organization
Founder of 'Bardo Project': A term in Tibetan Buddhism for the realm before rebirth when anything is possible. Bardo is an international peace project is inspired by this concept.
Yaffo, Israel-Palestine; Paris, France; New York, New York
RORY CURTIN is currently a doctoral candidate writing her dissertation on boundaries, borders, and belonging in the SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) region. Her research examines how somatic therapy and place based practices serve communities in diaspora to re-gain and re-imagine their social and cultural identities. She is also a dedicated Ashtanga and Jivamukti Yoga teacher, Tibetan Buddhist scholar, and chef. She is devoted to capacity building through community buildings, and has spent past six years establishing the Bardo Project in locations all over the world.
Offer
I am an academic and somatic explorer, by training and deep devotion to the acquisition of knowledge through research and the practice of yoga. I am also a community builder and networker, with a unique sense for making connections that have the potential to unlock incredible change. In addition to bringing people together and producing research to foster change, my innermost calling is to create inner space for people through somatic movement practices, as we store much of our delusion in the body, and movement has the capacity to help people overcome and transcend their limited beliefs of what is possible for both self and humanity. I am happy to offer one on one or group yoga explorations while on board the ship!
NEED
The current mission of Bardo Project is to build a center for peace, focused on the SWANA region (Southwest Asia and North Africa) located in Europe, with the intention to build a sister campus in New York. The incubator for our European base will emerge in Paris, France this winter. The need we face is for leaders in technology, academia, and somatic as well as other therapeutic practices to come together both physically and through other means of support to realize the full potential of this project.
Call-to-Action
My call to action is for us to gather and share our insights, connections, and capacity building, to re-imagine what peace work means today. From my perspective, it is a form of community building, grounded in land and body-based practices. It is a coming together of humans from across the globe to unearth, unveil, and uncover the shared challenges of humanity, and create entirely new solutions.
