Body & Food Liberation Program
A healing space for BIPOC women ready to come home to themselves.
You were never the problem.
Diet culture, generational trauma, and systems of oppression have taught so many of us to wage war against our bodies. The Body & Food Liberation Program was created to interrupt that cycle.
Through a liberation-centered, trauma-informed, and ancestral lens, we’ll explore and transform our relationships with food, body, culture, ancestry, and liberation within a supportive community of BIPOC women and femmes.
Each cohort is supported by both an eating disorder therapist and a registered dietitian, offering a holistic approach that nurtures your emotional, nutritional, and embodied healing.
Founding Cohort Enrollment Is Now Open
Founding Cohort Enrollment Is Now Open
Our first six-week, in-person Body & Food Liberation Program begins Monday, October 26, 2026, at Rooh Sanctuary in Santa Monica.
The Founding Cohort runs October 26–December 2, 2026, meeting Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00–8:45 PM at Rooh Sanctuary in Santa Monica.
Enrollment is intentionally limited to 10 participants.
What the program includes:
Psychoeducational Support
Guided by an eating disorder therapist, registered dietitian, and Rooh’s founder.
Somatic Healing
Weekly sound healing and yoga to support embodied connection.
Specialty Workshops & Healing Experiences
Additional guest-led offerings will be woven throughout the six-week cohort.
Program Schedule
The Founding Cohort runs October 26–December 2, 2026, meeting Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00–8:45 PM at Rooh Sanctuary in Santa Monica.
Mondays - Sound Healing
6:00–8:00 PM
Psychoeducational Body & Food Liberation support
8:00–8:45 PM
Somatic Healing
Wednesdays - Yoga
6:00–8:00 PM
Psychoeducational Body & Food Liberation support
8:00–8:45 PM
Somatic Healing
Program Investment
Program Investment
Founding Cohort Rate:
$500 for the full 6-week program
Includes all 12 program evenings, psychoeducational support, somatic healing, and specialty workshops and healing experiences offered throughout the cohort.
This comes to approximately $41.67 per evening.
Payment Plans
Pay in full:
$500 due by October 23, 2026
Two-payment plan:
$250 at enrollment and $250 due November 13, 2026
Three-payment plan:
$167 at enrollment, $167 due November 6, 2026, and $166 due November 20, 2026
Scholarship-Supported Spaces
We want this program to remain accessible to community members who may not otherwise be able to participate. Two spaces in the founding cohort will be fully scholarship-supported. Scholarship requests will be kept confidential. If you’re interested in being considered for a scholarship-supported space, please email sabrina@roohsanctuary.org.
Enroll in the Founding Cohort
Enroll in the Founding Cohort
Ready to Join Us?
Body & Food Liberation Program — Founding Cohort Enrollment
Thank you for your interest in Rooh’s Body & Food Liberation Program.
Rooh’s Body & Food Liberation Program is a six-week, in-person experience for BIPOC women and femmes exploring body image, food, identity, nourishment, and liberation through psychoeducation, nutrition support, somatic healing, and community.
The Founding Cohort runs October 26–December 2, 2026, meeting Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00–8:45 PM at Rooh Sanctuary in Santa Monica. Enrollment is intentionally limited to 10 participants.
After enrollment, you’ll receive our Participant Agreement by email for signature. Your enrollment is finalized once you complete the agreement. For any other questions, please contact us - thank you!
Meet the Body & Food Liberation Team
A multidisciplinary team bringing together eating disorder expertise, nutrition, somatic healing, and liberation-centered care.
Harpinder Mann, Yoga Educator
Harpinder Mann, E-RYT-200 (she/her), is a trauma-informed yoga educator and author based on Tongva land (Los Angeles). Rooted in her Sikh spiritual background and Panjabi ancestry, she shares yoga as a sacred path of remembrance and liberation. Practicing since 2013 and teaching since 2018, she guides students in weaving sādhana and the eight limbs of yoga into daily life to cultivate resilience, meaning, and connection. Her work bridges social justice and healing, honoring collective liberation. Her book, Liberating Yoga: From Appropriation to Healing, invites readers to reclaim yoga as a practice of integrity and wholeness. She is currently training to become a yoga therapist and somatic experiencing practitioner.
Komal Aulakh, Eating Disorder Therapist, Body & Food Liberation Facilitator
Komal Aulakh is a Panjabi Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor whose work is rooted in the belief that healing is a process of reconnecting—with ourselves, our bodies, our emotions, and our stories.
Through an integrative and relational approach, Komal supports individuals navigating anxiety, depression, eating disorders, body image, substance use, trauma, and relationship challenges. Her work is deeply grounded in the mind-body connection, drawing from somatic and mindfulness-based practices to create greater awareness of what we carry within us.
She recognizes the complexities of belonging, cultural values, intergenerational experiences, family dynamics, and the many identities we move through. Her work honors both where we come from and who we are becoming.
Komal holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Gender Studies from UCLA.
At the heart of her work is a belief in creating space for greater connection, understanding, and authenticity.
Sabrina Khawaja, Founder & Wellness Director, Rooh Sanctuary
Sabrina Khawaja is a Kashmiri American Muslim and former psychotherapist whose work is rooted in ancestral remembrance, liberation psychology, and decolonization. Her background includes experience in eating disorder care, community mental health, and trauma-informed healing, with a particular focus on the ways culture, identity, oppression, and intergenerational experiences shape our relationships with ourselves and our bodies.
Through Rooh, she brings together psychoeducation, cultural reclamation, body and food liberation, and wellness practices to create spaces that center BIPOC women and girls in their healing. Her work is grounded in the belief that healing is not individual, but also relational, cultural, and collective.
Sabrina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Pace University in New York City.
The Body & Food Liberation Program is a psychoeducational and wellness program and does not provide psychotherapy, eating disorder treatment, diagnosis, or clinical care.