Running has felt very important this season. We aren’t running away. We are running with our friends towards joy, and hope, and love and belonging. When we build what we imagine with care and intention, anything is possible and inevitably 🪄 MAGIC will happen!
We had our 5k RACE last week and more than 32 runners, immigrants and allies were able to feel that freedom and joy as more than a community, really more like a family. We are so PROUD OF ALL OF YOU!!!!
This joyous expression of care and belonging wouldn’t be possible without @trinitygracechurch@guenergylabs@hoka@protectourwinters !!!! Thank you so much for your support!
Special thanks to @gmanwaring and @pmanwaring for the gorgeous video!!!!!!
HILLS AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS!!
This week we ran Hill repeats and talked about inalienable rights and legal rights !
The parallels between running HILLS and digging into our body, to push to gain understanding of our power !!! This is incredibly important when we need to fight for those human rights that might not be codified, but that are ours as human beings, that nobody can take away from us!!!
The joy of our community in a spring day is MAGIC!!!!
🎥📸: @danielacastlewhite
Running Right and Land -Spring 2026 is here!!!
No spring break or 27 degree weather will keep this crew from Running and sharing some joy and belonging 🥰🤩!!!! 👊🏽❤️
Community, joy, happy, grateful we’re some of the words shared by our runners during our closing circle in today’s first run of the season!
Building community, understanding our rights, learning about climate action and social justice while centering joy and belonging is what we do!!! How lucky to have the most gorgeous groups of humans to run with !!!!!
Two more weeks and we get to FINALLY run with our favorite group of new and old friends!
A fact some people don’t know is that, It’s hard to run through the winter when some of our runners don’t have all the tools , like all day access to warm showers, or adequate extra gear and layers to keep them running through the winter! Hence why our program happens in the warmer months!
This winter was extra hard for a lot of our immigrant runners, between trying to exist as an immigrant and the horrendous anti immigrant rhetoric and fear, it was rough! We are talking with climbing gyms to see if we can start a climbing winter program! This way, we can pivot and continue building our bodies, strengthening our mental health as we tap into our rights!
For now, Let the countdown begin!!!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥
RUNNING, RIGHTS AND LAND New Jersey! 🎉🎉
We are thrilled to be launching our program in the trails of New Jersey!🌲🌳🪨
Starting March 29 we will be running with a new cohort of allies and immigrants !!
At Touching Land we believe that the intersection of equity, running and climate justice starts in the most grassroots way possible — with our neighbors.
Our RRL program brings seasoned runners and new neighbors/recent immigrants together for 10 weeks to run together, talk about our power, legal rights, climate justice, and to explore the power we have to build a more equitable community.
As we come together we will be building relationships, sharing knowledge, and exploring practices to encourage mindfulness and mental wellness. And as we run through Essex County we will be introducing new neighbors and recent immigrants to places they have never been before, and providing tools to navigate a complex world full of systems of oppression.
Each week runners will learn about a specific subject connected to their lived experiences and be connected with valuable resources to build change.
Join us OR Donate to our program!!!
Form for application in our bio!!!!
Design by @padenspencer
Many new faces, so here’s who we are :
At Touching Land, we believe you cannot separate law from the body. Our founder Carolina always say’s that we are in bodies for a reason.
The law lives in the body,
the tightening of the jaw at the sight of authority
The silence learned in borders
Somatic legal education disrupts thr system
Through clay, we remold power
Through running, we reclaim endurance and collective joy
Through cooking, we restore dignity and belonging
Through con amor, always, card making becomes a somatic act of love and connection
Through climbing, we trust, risk and find our footing
This is legal education that produces embodied agency
It reminds us of our power and what we deserve
It invites us to imagine what is possible!!!
JOIN us in building a movement and the world we deserve.
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NOTHING will STOP us from EXPERIENCING the JOY and BELONGING we build in our Running Rights and Land programing!!!
The times are harder than ever, which means we have to commit 3 times more, to the things we love and communities we care about.
Running, immigrants and Allies 🫶🏽🙌🏽❤️
We need your help with donation to cover race costs!
Our Brooklyn program has been so successful we are about to launch a NJ running program too!
Because mental health and physical health is incredibly important during these really hard times.
Check out our links and donate !!! We really appreciate it!
Last week one of our original runners from our RRL program Fall 2024 decided to run 22 miles to celebrate his 22nd bday! We had a group of runners joining him and what a gorgeous way to celebrate!!!
A went from barely running a 5k to running 22 miles around Manhattan and Brooklyn!
CONGRATULATIONS A!!! We couldn’t be more proud of you and this gorgeous family of runners we have built!!!!
What a day!!!!! While the world has been heavy and our immigrant community constantly in fear and perpetually attacked, we believe the antidote to it all is community, joy, movement and belonging. More of us showed up, we built community, we trained and dreamed about racing TOGETHER!!!
Some of our previous immigrant runners wanted to challenge themselves in more than a 5k, we said YES, you dream it, we build it with you alongside our allies!
The STATS:
Today 13 Members of the Touching Land team RAN a HALF MARATHON!!!!💪🏽 They found grit and smiled and we could not be more proud of them!!!
We also had 5 brand NEW RUNNERS that found their legs and their Rythm and finished the 5k race!!!
We had 2 new runners doing the 10k and 11 established +new runners (immigrant+allies) that ran the 5k! Our youngest member being 8!
We couldn’t have done this without the support of some magical leaders like @pmanwaring@davidlouw@sophiaepower and mvp @trinitygracechurch !!!
When it mattered the most, these brands and allies continued to support us, so a very GRANDE THAN YOU goes to @guenergylabs@hoka@yog_it_out@protectourwinters and @hydrapak@rachelraedrake for their unwavering support !!!
We love our community! Stay tuned for some fundraising and our next cycle in the Spring! 💪🏽🫵🏽👋🏽🫶🏽💥❤️
Yesterday we joined @uoforange@orangehuub for their annual Fall festival celebration! We had an amazing time with community, kids and caretaker’s got to play with clay with no particular direction of what their imagination could produce!
Our community is strong and one of the things we love about the size of our org is the ability to pivot when necessary!
We of course had some Emergency plan of action materials for anyone that needed them or had questions!
@standardclaycompany has air-dry clay that we were able to pack up and give for kids that wanted to take some clay home and build the world they imagine and deserve!
We love this community and UofO and the gorgeous educating and care they provide!
TIL next time!!
