My Framewerk:
The Art of Radical Being

Why I do this work

I am dedicated to helping you question how we live, and to cultivate discernment and critical thinking around what we’ve been offered as the only options. I want you to see that we are more alike than different (outside of the oppressive systems in place) and that together we’re more powerful than we realize. I want us to co-create systems of care that benefit you personally and us collectively, including our more-than-human siblings, both seen and unseen, and the living world all around us.

(The purpose)

(Why framewerk? Work is mostly physical. Werk includes all your dimensions )

What I do

Diagram titled "The Art of Radical Being" illustrating pathways to Living Balance through meditation, embody, and movement, with themes of community, interdependence, and awareness, and a logo for "Brenda Ramos, Authentic Whole Self Living."

Let’s unpack this together

Living as the fullest expression of yourself is an artform. It asks for curiosity, courage, imagination and, at times, wild abandon. In the words of Angela Davis, “Radical simply means grasping things at the root.” This work invites you to do exactly that: to explore the deeper layers of yourself and the relationships that shape who you are.

The Five Movements of Coming Home: Remember, Reconnect, Reclaim, Realign, and Return - invite you into deeper relationship with your Authentic Whole Self. Not as a fixed version of who you're supposed to be, but as the fullest expression of who you are and who you are becoming.

The Art of Radical Being is a Framewerk for living in deeper relationship with what you know, value, need, and desire. It helps you reclaim the tools, rituals, relationships, and practices that support how you want to live while making space for what has changed and what is still becoming. Together, we reclaim your rhythm, your resilience, your agency, and your right to participate in your own becoming.

Name: The Art of Radical Being

Direction (aka the North Star): Living Balance

The Window of Living Balance is my language for the ever-changing, embodied space where we experience connection, presence, and harmony within ourselves and with the world around us. Living Balance has a rhythm; an ebb and flow shaped by our bodies, needs, relationships, environments, and the realities of our lives. We move beyond this window, notice, and find our way back.

Leave. Pause. Notice. Return.

The practice isn't about never leaving. It's about cultivating a compassionate relationship with the rhythms of leaving and returning — and trusting that we can find our way home again.

Interior Spheres

(Inner Care)

Meditate

GROUNDING FOCUS

Slow down. Pause. Be present. Notice the thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations that you’re feeling. Choose to drop the stories. Choose to be with what is without judgment. Allow it to move through you. Anchor, acknowledge, honor, and return to this moment. Name a few things you see or hear. Bring your attention to a part of your body that feels rooted, maybe your feet or your seat. Touch your fingertips to an object, the earth, a loved one. Locate the place within you that feels okay or neutral.

Embody

BE ABOUT IT

Connect with yourself. Go inward. Examine & reexamine your values. Know the ways you’re resourced. Check-in with your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. Bring genuine curiosity with you to everything you do. Investigate the who, what, when, where, and why of yourself, your life, and your choices. Get honest about your needs. Practice using your senses to inform you. Practice dropping into your body to heed the wisdom it naturally carries. Practice what if feels like to be co-regulated, in conflict, and relationship with others.

Move

ALIGNED ACTION

Express yourself. Create. Start a movement. Connect with others. Collaborate. Make an impact. Reach out to your crew to help process and hold space for healing together. Dance! Stay committed to taking small, consistent steps towards the next experience that’s wise for you and good for the collective. Make mistakes! Balance dreaming and being with doing. And gently propel as many parts of yourself as possible - heart, mind, body, soul, spirit forward.

Experience

TAKE IT ALL IN

Savor this moment. Give yourself grace. Release false urgency. Join your beloveds to share, rejoice, and grieve together. Be naughty. Celebrate with others in the most generous ways. Replenish your energy for the next round of growth. Honor your needs. Integrate the lessons. Take three things off your to-do list every week. Know that some things won’t get done, and that’s okay. Trust that your team - Ancestors/God/Nature/Source/Universe is at work when you are not.

Layers & Textures

(Collective Care)

Fields of Interaction

  • Self (the inner spheres): where we interact with different parts of ourself

  • Relational: where we mutually interact one to one or one to some

  • Community: where we mutually interact with small groups

  • Collective: where we interact with the majority either directly or indirectly

  • Systemic: they shape our daily lives like the air we breathe or the water we move through. But these systems—rooted in white supremacy, settler colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism—were never neutral. They are constructed and perpetuated by those in power to enforce ways of thinking, living, and relating that often conflict with our cultural, ancestral, or personal values. What we’ve been taught as “normal” or “moral” is often just what maintains their control.

Indigenous Wisdom - who we’re doing this werk with and for

  • Ancestors: beings who came multiple generations before us*

  • Siblings: beings around us today*

  • Descendents: beings who will come multiple generations after us*

*Beings can be human and non-human, known and unknown, seen and unseen, related by blood or chosen by circumstance.

Inherent Qualities - weaved into the fabric of my Framewerk

  • Trust: confidence in yourself, Nature, Source, God, the Universe, the journey, your loved ones—anything or anyone you can turn to when you’re feeling a sense of doubt.

  • Awareness: conscious knowledge of inner and outer environments and your placement in them.

  • Wisdom: insight gained from experience, passed down intergenerationally, and integrated from the living world.

  • Resonance: the felt sense of recognition, connection, or congruence that arises when something within or around you touches what feels meaningful, true, or alive. (Updated in 2025)

  • Reciprocity: the practice of giving, receiving, responding, and tending within relationship—recognizing that care, knowledge, resources, and responsibility move in more than one direction. (Updated in 2025)

  • Interdependence: the intricate mutuality that exists between us and everything else in all the fields of interaction across time and space.

Tools & Practices - (partial list in no particular order)

  • Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

  • Laughter Yoga

  • Liberatory Praxis

  • Mystic Rituals

  • Nonviolent Communication

  • Reiki

  • Restorative Practices

  • Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)