Ecosomatic Listening
If you’re anxious or despairing about the health of the earth and where it appears we’re headed, you’re in the right place. I offer workshops that put you in dynamic alignment with the living Earth.
These workshops are based on the emerging field of ecosomatics which recognizes the personal body as inextricable from the planetary body, that the ecology of our body is part of the global ecosystem. Nature is not outside us. It is not the woods or mountains accessed only when we walk out the door of our home. We are nature.
Developing the ability to listen ecosomatically is a valuable skill during this period of unprecedented global warming. Ecosomatic listening encourages a heightened use of the senses along with heart, mind, imagination, and intuition. The aim is to repair the broken relationship with ourselves and with Earth and to develop new abilities.
Workshops utilize practices with meditative awareness, embodied movement and cognition, expanded perceptions, and appreciation of connection to self, other, and the environment. Consider these workshops an invitation to contribute to the wellbeing of the planet and yourself.
What are the benefits?
- Address eco-anxiety, eco-grief, and increase gratitude for the awesome vitality and beauty of the natural world.
- Expand perceptions and skills toward building a healthy relationship between the personal body and the planetary body.
- Engage and develop transpersonal, energetic, shamanic, and imaginal ways of communicating.
- Unfold consciousness and experience resonance with a larger intelligence.
- Cultivate a felt connection with the environment and participate in its rhythms.
- Discover meaningful, actionable steps toward addressing the climate crisis.
- Participate in a community that values collaboration, somatic intelligence, interdependent awakening, and concern for all life.
Healing Body and Earth
I hope you consider joining a workshop and becoming part of the positive evolution of our world. The work we do to heal ourselves and the planet is among the most important work we can be doing today. These experiential workshops are based on my book, Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing.
3-Part Workshop Series:
1) Ecomeditation
*Join a community of like-minded folks similarly experiencing ecoanxiety and ecogrief who are actively seeking realistic hope.
*Practice a guided meditation to increase resonance between yourself and the planet.
*Connect with the natural healing intelligence of the planet.
*Actively engage in ecospirituality
2) Deep Grounding
*Open to flow and healing.
*Deepen your connection with the living intelligence of the planet.
*Learn a centering practice to increase embodiment and calm.
*Actively engage in ecospirituality.
3) Ecosomatic Literacy: Sensing the More than Human World
*Learn to sense transpersonal, energetic, shamanic, and imaginal ways of communication.
*Discover your personal way of perceiving.
*Pratice deep somatic listening.
*Develop ecosomatic literacy.
Workshops
September 23, 2023, Ecomeditation: 12:30-2:00 EST online via Zoom
November 4, 2023, Deep Grounding: 12:30-2:00 EST online via Zoom – class full!
January 20, 2024, Ecosomatic Literacy: Sensing the More than Human World, 12:30-2:00 EST, online via Zoom – class full!
For the 3-part Ecosomatic Listening series above for discounted rate and for individual workshop
Register here for the above workshops.
February 24, 2024, Ecosomatic Listening , in person, Innerworks Center, Richmond VA
Interested in attending a future workshop?
Contact me with questions about my workshops.